[Aus-soaring] This list - Closed down. Use the aus-soaring google group

This effort started six months ago. That's enough time :) aus-soar...@base64.com.au will disappear very soon. It's quite likely that by the time you reply to this message, it'll be gone, and your reply will bounce. The replacement for this list is aus-soar...@groups.google.com, which has a

[Aus-soaring] Fwd: Reminder: Mailing list relocation

Last reminder. We’ll shut down the old list next week. - mark > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Mark Newton > Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Reminder: Mailing list relocation > Date: 6 September 2018 at 3:40:54 AM GMT+10 > To: "Discussion of issues relating

Re: [Aus-soaring] Reminder: Mailing list relocation

luding it here for completeness. Regards, - mark > On Aug 26, 2018, at 3:21 AM, Mark Newton wrote: > > Reposting from last week: > > Some of you might recall that this list was moved from Internode to Base64 > some time ago. > > Well: It’s moving again. > >

[Aus-soaring] Reminder: Mailing list relocation

Reposting from last week: Some of you might recall that this list was moved from Internode to Base64 some time ago. Well: It’s moving again. The software which has been running the group is called Mailman, and it’s showing its age. In particular, its ability to handle escalating volumes of

[Aus-soaring] List relocation

Hi, folks. Some of you might recall that this list was moved from Internode to Base64 some time ago. Well: It’s moving again. The software which has been running the group is called Mailman, and it’s showing its age. In particular, its ability to handle escalating volumes of spam is somewhat

Re: [Aus-soaring] ASIC and the USA alternative

Between my visit to KPAO last year and my visit a few weeks ago, they've put in a fence and a gate. The gate's electronic lock PIN-pad outside the terminal building has a scrap of PVC about the size of a business card attached to it with a cable tie. Label-maker tape says, "Gate code is

Re: [Aus-soaring] (no subject)

On Nov 27, 2017, at 10:40 AM, Nick Gilbert wrote: > > Sorry Jarek, it goes a bit too well for us. Maybe with some bugs on the > leading edge? Run the comp in the rain, it’ll be fine :-) - mark ___ Aus-soaring mailing

Re: [Aus-soaring] Looking for XCSoar 5.2.1 for the Altair

Put it on Google Drive and email a link. - mark > On Nov 9, 2017, at 9:39 PM, Chris Runeckles wrote: > > Hi Robert > > Is this the version of XC soar you are looking for > > XCSoarAltair-522-CRC3E.exe > > I am not sure howto send an .exe file because Gmail is

Re: [Aus-soaring] Regular Car Reviews: A 1987 ASK-21 Sailplane

On Oct 24, 2017, at 10:05 AM, Derek Ruddock wrote: > > A moron who loves the sound of his own voice. It’s a youtube channel that does cars. I thought doing a glider was a bit of good fun. > Notice the idiot in the towplane start the launch with a bloke standing next >

Re: [Aus-soaring] Goondiwindi

They might have trouble replying because mobile microwave signals propagate poorly through water. - mark On Oct 17, 2017, at 1:07 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > > > Anyone know what is happening at Goondiwindi? Is anyone still there? > > Mike > > > > >

[Aus-soaring] Air Services removing ALAs from FAC, AIP and WAC charts

https://aopa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/a17-h29.pdf There are a bunch of gliding sites in this list. Once they’re removed from Air Services’ database, they’ll no longer be depicted on charts. If you know who the contact

Re: [Aus-soaring] RASP no longer updating/needed for SA

On 7 Sep 2017, at 4:11 PM, Rob Wintulich <r...@signwizard.com.au> wrote: > Yes, I care and I also love that particular RASP facility. > My understanding is that someone appropriately informed and willing needs to > service an area to keep it up and running. Mark Newton may

Re: [Aus-soaring] [gfaforum] RE: water bags and tanks

On 28 Aug 2017, at 8:46 AM, DMcD wrote: > Yes, ballast is perhaps not basic but I've seen people with a handful > of hours over a C cert. putting ballast in gliders almost as soon as > they were endorsed for the type. Why shouldn’t people who are endorsed on ballasted

Re: [Aus-soaring] Benalla

So based on the council’s proposed fee per square metre, how much is hangarage for a 15m glider expected to cost in the New World? - mark > On Aug 6, 2017, at 10:28 AM, John Styles wrote: > > Ron, > > Basically its a case of paying the council a lot and bit more

Re: [Aus-soaring] anonymity

On Jun 6, 2017, at 5:21 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > > I'll stand behind what I write and the vast majority here use their real > names. It is plain rude and impolite not to do so here in a group which is of > very limited interest to the wider world and which

Re: [Aus-soaring] Air brake handles

On 06/06/2017, DMcD and Mike Borgelt wrote: Besides, you are a cowardly anonymous troll. And you? Please don't. Just... don't. - mark ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring

Re: [Aus-soaring] High speed glider landing

Might be fine for a booster, but not so good for an orbiter, where you’d need to take many expensive kilograms of landing fuel all the way into orbit and back. - mark > On May 12, 2017, at 11:07 AM, Mike Borgelt > wrote: > > About how the Shuttle used

Re: [Aus-soaring] Flarm mouse troubles

Can we not do this again, people? Perhaps take it to private email, it’s not reflecting well on anyone in public. - mark On 19 Apr 2017, at 4:07 AM, Nathan Frawley wrote: > > > > > "The unit was returned some time later after apparently being tested. " > >

Re: [Aus-soaring] Reminder: CASA : input on radio frequency in Class G airspace

It’s not quite the same, though. Over almost all of the United States, class G airspace has a 1200' AGL ceiling (700’ AGL near some untowered airports). The bit between 1200’ AGL and 18,000’ AMSL is class E. When the new NAS was introduced in 2005-2007, the regional airlines cohort fought

Re: [Aus-soaring] CASA Avmed discussion - due Thursday 30 March

They are. - mark On 30 Mar 2017, at 9:16 AM, Colin Collum wrote: > > Strictly speaking the tests involved in aviation medicals are screening > rather than diagnostic and as such should not be billed to the health system > but paid for directly by the recipient. >

Re: [Aus-soaring] CASA Avmed discussion - due Thursday 30 March

On 28 Mar 2017, at 4:45 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > > Yeah Number 4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule > is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them > with this because no one can possibly obey all of

Re: [Aus-soaring] CASA Avmed discussion - due Thursday 30 March

I completely understand this. But his advice to hold CASA’s feet to the fire about adherence to their own principles remains a good one. - mark On Mar 28, 2017, at 2:08 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > > Jonathan Aleck is the problem at CASA, not any kind of

Re: [Aus-soaring] CASA Avmed discussion - due Thursday 30 March

I had a 1:1 meeting with Jonathan Aleck this morning, on the subject of their newly touted “Regulatory Philosophy.” Aleck wrote the policy document, and says he’s quite proud of it: https://www.casa.gov.au/about-us/standard-page/our-regulatory-philosophy

Re: [Aus-soaring] CASA Avmed discussion - due Thursday 30 March

I submitted mine last week. Spiced and seasoned by a Class 2 medical examination the week before, accompanied by a small collection of avmed screwups which they still, 2 weeks after the exam, don’t appear to have rectified. - mark > On Mar 27, 2017, at 5:56 PM, Jo Pocklington

Re: [Aus-soaring] TT21 Re: To PowerFlarm or not?

On 27 Feb 2017, at 9:06 PM, Peter (PCS3) wrote: > > I purchased a TT21 and it did not include an altitude encoder for Mode S: had > to purchase and install it afterwards. :-( > Was not advised by the salesperson of the TT21. :-( > Huh? It’s built-in to the TC20 display

Re: [Aus-soaring] To PowerFlarm or not?

On 24 Feb 2017, at 8:41 AM, Jim Staniforth wrote: > > Technically, the TT21 Class 2 is only "legal Mode-S" here to 15,000'. You > may have seen a video on Taylors gliding page of a thermal to 17,999' in my > glider. Believe there is nothing in the Mode-S string that

Re: [Aus-soaring] To PowerFlarm or not?

> On 24 Feb 2017, at 5:16 AM, Jim Staniforth wrote: > > Too many antennas! > I went with the Class 1 TXP for use at altitude and in case of the need to > ADS-B equip, but there is no GPS connected at the moment. The TT22 operates > purely as a Mode S transponder

Re: [Aus-soaring] To PowerFlarm or not?

On Feb 23, 2017, at 10:37 AM, Jim Staniforth wrote: > > Seems to me that Trig transponders are the easiest to install and keep > certified. I've installed two TT21s and the current TT22, also a couple of > Becker 4401s. Removed a Garmin and a couple of Terra(ble)s.

Re: [Aus-soaring] To PowerFlarm or not?

On 22 Feb 2017, at 7:32 PM, Justin Couch wrote: > If we look at a 10 year lifespan for equipment, then the horizon of the > adoption of ADS-B is the interesting bit to us, rather than equipment cost. As of the current date: Any new aircraft placed on the Australian register

Re: [Aus-soaring] Class 2 Medical Reform CASA - submissions due 30 March 17

On 18 Feb 2017, at 11:28 AM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > > > AOPA made their proposal last year to CASA and the Minister. The CASA paper > looks to me like a typical bureaucratic response when the intention is to do > nothing. Instead of simply discussing the AOPA

Re: [Aus-soaring] L2 Independent Ops

l.com> wrote: > > > was not is the case recently where a coroner stated that responsibility must > be with the pilot and no other? > > > On 14 Feb 2017, at 7:33 PM, Mark Newton <new...@atdot.dotat.org > <mailto:new...@atdot.dotat.org>> wrote: > >> On 14 Feb 2017

Re: [Aus-soaring] L2 Independent Ops

On 14 Feb 2017, at 5:44 PM, Derek wrote: > > It's easy to blame the instructor in this, but where is the personal > responsibility demonstrated? > The pilot had already made a fist of the conditions, so why on earth get into > a single seater? > > "The instructor MADE

Re: [Aus-soaring] L2 Independent Ops

On 11 Feb 2017, at 4:19 AM, Jim Staniforth wrote: > > Many of us thought that the GPC was going to give holders responsibility for > themselves. > Perhaps some situations where people felt they were under an instructor's > "control" only happened because the instructor

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

On Feb 7, 2017, at 3:04 PM, Richard Frawley wrote: > > that being the case, what is the point of making an enemy of the GFA when > befriending and making small changes over time seems like a higher potential > path for improvement GFA has never made small changes over

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

On Feb 7, 2017, at 3:07 PM, Richard Frawley wrote: > >> >> You also can’t be a GFA member without being a member of a GFA-affiliated >> club, so you actually need to be a member of TWO organizations to be >> compliant with the GFA operations manual. >> > > I must admit

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

On Feb 7, 2017, at 2:09 PM, James McDowall wrote: > Mark, > Agree with most of what you wrote except that CASR 61.1515 does not say that > you have to be a member. It says that " (1) The holder of a glider pilot > licence is authorised to conduct an activity in the

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

On Feb 7, 2017, at 1:49 PM, Christopher McDonnell wrote: > > Where does that fit with “Freedom of Association”? Is that not why there is > an ‘alternative path’? You cannot be forced to join an association generally > speaking. > I don’t think CASA cares a

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

On Feb 7, 2017, at 12:00 PM, James McDowall wrote: > My reading of Mosp 2 (the GFA operations manual) is that membership of the > GFA is only mandated for foreign pilots and Class A airspace operations. Good luck getting a glider in to Class A airspace. I think

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

> On 7 Feb 2017, at 9:23 AM, James McDowall wrote: > > Can anyone enlighten me as to which piece of legislation says a GPL has no > validity in Australia? CASR 61.145 permits flight in a glider without a glider pilot license under stated conditions. CASR 61.1515

Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Negative Advertising and Censorship?

On 7 Feb 2017, at 7:34 AM, Richard Frawley wrote: > > > snarkiness??? > its that what exposing some reality is called? He has a job to do. He’s doing the opposite of the job. > > john might not be very PC and the way he expressed things could have been a > little more

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

On 6 Feb 2017, at 7:31 PM, Mark Newton <new...@atdot.dotat.org> wrote: > > On 6 Feb 2017, at 6:42 PM, Future Aviation Pty. Ltd. <ec...@internode.on.net > <mailto:ec...@internode.on.net>> wrote: >> >> Hi Mathew >> >> I seem to hav

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

On 6 Feb 2017, at 6:42 PM, Future Aviation Pty. Ltd. wrote: > > Hi Mathew > > I seem to have missed something! > Your reply seems to indicate that the GPCertificate is upgradable to a > GPLicence in Australia. > Is that correct and how would one go about it? If you

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

On Feb 6, 2017, at 4:34 PM, Ulrich Stauss wrote: > In theory the personal legal risk for a CFI should be lower from an L2 Ind Op. Hang on. Firstly: At best, the personal legal risk for a CFI is undefined (which is, itself, a personal legal risk) Secondly: At worst,

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

On Feb 6, 2017, at 1:30 PM, Ulrich Stauss wrote: > Also, if my understanding is correct it is possible fly a self-launcher with > a C certificate (plus corresponding training/endorsement) under the > supervision of an instructor(?). You can do all of your ab initio

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

for SA. >>> >>> Coming from a different country I was bewildered that there is no formal >>> qualification for glider pilots in Australia. I argued >>> for a Glider Pilot Licence (GPL) instead of a Glider Pilot Certificate >>> (GPC) but I was told that

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

On 5 Feb 2017, at 3:35 PM, Richard Frawley wrote: > > It is well know that the biggest resistance by far to the current GPC change > (which was a good step forward) was by instructors and especially CFI’S and > RTO’s > > I would be more than happy to help champion the

Re: [Aus-soaring] more light hearted WAS: MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

> get grief, go get a life […] How about y’all just chill out a bit. - mark ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring

Re: [Aus-soaring] Bathurst 1000k

On Feb 2, 2017, at 2:12 PM, Jim Staniforth wrote: > > Nice one Matthew. > Seems a bit out of the ordinary... How many thousands have been done out of > Bathurst? At least one! :-) - mark ___ Aus-soaring mailing list

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

On 2 Feb 2017, at 9:24 AM, steph...@internode.on.net wrote: > If we assume it is only age related, the register shows that the cut off year > for the 600 oldest gliders is 1978. So all that "old low performance stuff" > would include all the LS1s, Cirrus, Libelles, Mosquitos, Astir CS/CS77s and

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

On 2 Feb 2017, at 9:11 AM, James McDowall wrote: > > It doesnt really matter how many gliders are on the register as the real > question is how many are active ie airworthy. This can be extrapolated from > the financial accounts and budgets which would indicate that

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

On 2 Feb 2017, at 4:29 AM, Richard Frawley wrote: > > is there a population age cliff we are fall off? Yes. - mark ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

Registration doesn’t expire, so an aircraft stays on the register even if it’s wrecked in a blown-over trailer in a corner of a gliding field that its deceased owner hasn’t visited for ten years. The real point of interest is the number of form-2 kits the GFA sells each year. Mandy Temple’s

Re: [Aus-soaring] MEMBERSHIP AND A WORLD REVIEW

On Feb 1, 2017, at 2:58 PM, DMcD wrote: > I have to say, I'd love those who are not involved actively in gliding > to remove themselves from discussions related to soaring in Australia. That’s what the GFA website forums are for. I haven’t been actively involved in gliding

Re: [Aus-soaring] gliding the sport

On Jan 31, 2017, at 7:01 PM, steph...@internode.on.net wrote: > > Bugger, that link didn't work. > > here's a cut and paste: > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > Mark Newton > <https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=aus-

Re: [Aus-soaring] gliding the sport

On Jan 31, 2017, at 4:28 PM, Erich Wittstock wrote: > Without the initial comment on facebook we would have never had a discussion > like this. We’ve been having discussions like this for 20 years. - mark ___ Aus-soaring

Re: [Aus-soaring] gliding the sport

On Jan 31, 2017, at 2:12 PM, Derek wrote: > > Until envy raises its ugly head: I push and shove/ do the log/ tow the > gliders all day & I don’t get paid!... > The fact of the matter is that gliding (except self launchers) requires a > team of people to operate, unlike

Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Negative Advertising and Censorship?

> On 30 Jan 2017, at 18:08, Al Borowski <al.borow...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 30/01/2017, Mark Newton <new...@atdot.dotat.org> wrote: >> Why do you want ranks? >> >> - mark > > Because an untrained beginner with 2 hours experience should be g

Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Negative Advertising and Censorship?

On Jan 30, 2017, at 2:38 PM, Christopher McDonnell wrote: > > I spent some time outside the GFA until the hoops were made nearly impossible > to jump through. Well, of course the hoops were nearly impossible to jump through: GFA lobbied against the regulatory

Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Negative Advertising and Censorship?

On Jan 30, 2017, at 2:12 PM, Richard Frawley wrote: > > its a wonderful country that we have so much choice For gliders? How? Where? It’s GFA or nothing. > in 20 years time, gliding will not be what it is today. > Those that want to soar and not be in ‘club’ will be able

Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Negative Advertising and Censorship?

On Jan 30, 2017, at 11:09 AM, Richard Frawley wrote: > > in time my view is the sport will change. electric self launchers and more > ownership will be the norm. small clubs will die. big clubs will go > commercial. it will take 15 years to migrate to a new model. In my

Re: [Aus-soaring] GFA Negative Advertising and Censorship?

On Jan 30, 2017, at 11:14 AM, Richard Frawley wrote: > > after 3 years of trying the positive path and not seeing engagement, he has > just got the shits with the whole thing and feels like giving the community a > wake up call. i doubt there is much viewing of any of the

Re: [Aus-soaring] FAA Issues General Aviation Medical Rule

On 11 Jan 2017, at 8:00 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > > Or text while driving like the idiot I followed for a while coming back from > the airfield this afternoon (at a safe distance). > > The US limitations are up to 6000 pounds, can be IFR and up to 18,000 feet

Re: [Aus-soaring] FAA Issues General Aviation Medical Rule

On 11 Jan 2017, at 3:22 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > > > Everyone should download the CASA discussion paper and put in a submission. > I'll publish some more links later. You have until end of March. Note that the CASA discussion paper presents six regulatory

[Aus-soaring] FAA withdraws proposed rule for glider transponders

EAA says the FAA has withdrawn its glider transponder NPRM. http://bit.ly/2hVEglI - mark ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring

Re: [Aus-soaring] accommodation available Benalla for World Comps

Could attendees save a lot of fuss and bother by just printing their own? - mark > On 4 Jan 2017, at 9:13 AM, Adam Woolley wrote: > > Security passes, it's pretty standard at a WGC - I've been to three & have > three at home. Naturally helps with many things, more

Re: [Aus-soaring] accommodation available Benalla for World Comps

On 4 Jan 2017, at 8:36 AM, pam wrote: > > Hope that our security passes will be ready. I got the automatic email > response, but have heard nothing more. Security passes? - mark ___ Aus-soaring mailing list

Re: [Aus-soaring] SkySight on YouTube: Episode 1 - Weather forecasting and task planning

On 1 Nov 2016, at 5:31 PM, Matthew Scutter wrote: > If people find the first episode valuable, I'll continue with more advanced > topics. > Direct queries/suggestions/requests to matt...@skysight.io > . With winds northerly until cloudbase,

Re: [Aus-soaring] Microair servicing - Is it still a thing?

> On 24 Oct 2016, at 8:59 PM, Colin Collum wrote: > > Now it looks like I can't read a dictionary properly. I got it arse-about. > Skeptical is the US version. Color me surprised. If we’re going to get technical, I’ll point out that the Macquarie Dictionary advises

[Aus-soaring] Microair servicing - Is it still a thing?

Back in April, with an intermittent fault on an Microair T2000SFL transponder, I contacted Microair and Scott told me that he was expecting new main boards in about six weeks. Contacting them again now, I’m informed that they’ll have upgrade kids in February 2017. Color me skeptical. Does

Re: [Aus-soaring] Eagle attacks

On 13 Oct 2016, at 11:51 AM, Angus Stewart wrote: > > Anyone else got some interesting eagle attack stories? I heard a radio call from a bird-struck glider at Whyalla while I was soaring near Lochiel many years ago. A wedgie attacked one of AUGC’s gliders a long time ago

Re: [Aus-soaring] New weather website...?

On 11 Oct 2016, at 1:29 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > > Very nice. Thanks! Gives you a choice of 3 models. Seems like windyty but > better. > windyty gives two models. Meh. I can’t get enough of windyty’s (well - Meteoblue’s) Meteograms and Airgrams. Most of

Re: [Aus-soaring] Ventus cM: Ib Braes

On Sep 21, 2016, at 10:38 AM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > Oh, yes, they are just machines. Inanimate objects. When I acquired the RV, my partner almost immediately anthropomorphized it: Its rego is SOL, so, of course, its name needs to be “Solly.” The fairings on

Re: [Aus-soaring] Loss of control accidents

On Jul 18, 2016, at 1:45 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > > Same for landing piston engine aircraft on carriers. And virtually all military arrivals, which use overhead break approaches. (want to see an argument that leaves aus-soaring in the shade? Start a thread

Re: [Aus-soaring] Loss of control accidents

On Jul 18, 2016, at 10:27 AM, Jim Staniforth wrote: > In other FAA news, the third class medical is slated to go away! > Presidential signature was on the 15th. The FAA now has a year to put it > into the regulations. Not quite that simple. The legislation

Re: [Aus-soaring] [gfaforum] Re: Wave flying

On Jul 14, 2016, at 4:41 PM, Catherine Conway wrote: > We’ve been getting strong winds this year. The green number in the top left > is the wind. We were at FL140 (because winds higher were stronger). I saw a photo from a mate who flies Boeing 737s showing his PFD on a

Re: [Aus-soaring] California Ridge run

On Jul 14, 2016, at 9:05 AM, Peter Armstrong wrote: > Sure, the pilot has a lot of kinetic energy up his sleeve, but I can’t say > I’d be happy with the level of risk, especially with a pax along for the > ride. It wouldn’t have taken much for things to go

Re: [Aus-soaring] Stitching together small waves to go XC

> On 4 May 2016, at 9:05 AM, Matthew Scutter wrote: > > Careful what you wish for - from my reading of Dick Smiths qualms with the > current airspace on pprune (no ATC separation of his IFR aircraft with VFR > aircraft in class E), his reforms could be very hostile

Re: [Aus-soaring] Skyboard

On May 1, 2016, at 1:56 PM, Greg Wilson wrote: > I've been thinking of the complexity of low level air traffic control if > these deuces became consumer items. I’m wondering who will be able to fly them without multiengine rotorcraft licenses. - mark

Re: [Aus-soaring] Archives

On 21 Apr 2016, at 7:03 AM, Optusnet wrote: > > Hi all, > > I can see the achieves of the old list but I can seem to get one from the > base64 list. The archives were never maintained by us, they were a third-party org that discovered the list by web-crawling,

Re: [Aus-soaring] perlan/U-2

On 11 Mar 2016, at 9:55 AM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > If you haven't already done so I'd also recommend Brian Schul's books "Sled > driver" and "the Untouchables" about flying the SR-71. The latter has a > section where he and his backseater flew the pre, strike

Re: [Aus-soaring] Comparing accident rates

On 11 Mar 2016, at 11:36, Optusnet wrote: > > > Mark, would you mind letting me know when you are flying next, I just don't > want to be in the same airspace as you and expose myself to the increased > risk. Personal attack, JJ? C'mon, that's just weak. > As

Re: [Aus-soaring] Comparing accident rates

On 11 Mar 2016, at 9:16 AM, Optusnet wrote: > At some point some poor bunny has to put their neck on the block and be > prepared to look your wife and kids in the eye and say. " I conducted his AFR > as required by a approved revalidation program, a program that is

Re: [Aus-soaring] Update from Flarm on Unsolicited Email Circulation

On Mar 7, 2016, at 12:55 PM, Justin Couch <jus...@vlc.com.au> wrote: > On 7/03/2016 12:09 PM, Mark Newton wrote: > >> It is not possible for a consumer to vote with their wallet, because no >> matter where they send their money, FLARM skims the cream. >> >>

Re: [Aus-soaring] Update from Flarm on Unsolicited Email Circulation

On Mar 7, 2016, at 11:01 AM, Richard Frawley wrote: > Flarm have done a great job over the many years supplying a reliable, life > saving product that cost less than some of your Varios. That doesn’t give them a right to a monopoly. > Like you Mike, they have every right

Re: [Aus-soaring] Update from Flarm on Unsolicited Email Circulation

On 6 Mar 2016, at 2:30 PM, Richard Frawley wrote: > http://flarm.com/statement-by-flarm-technology-about-recent-unsolicited-emails/ > > Smells like bullshit.

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

On Mar 4, 2016, at 11:46 AM, Richard Frawley wrote: > 6) is it more likely that on going attention, education, reeducation and > simulation will have positive effect towards reducing these events > > Yes There’s been rather a lot of ongoing attention, education,

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

On Mar 3, 2016, at 4:48 PM, Mike Borgelt wrote: > Also I really liked your guest article in the last AOPA magazine. > Can you post it here? Sure. I haven’t seen it in print, so I don’t know how they edited it, but here’s the original copy: "Things that irk

Re: [Aus-soaring] Potential dangers in the sport of gliding

On Mar 4, 2016, at 10:46 AM, Richard Frawley wrote: > > If this question is asked on the GFA form list, the actual numbers can be > quickly produced Can’t they be quickly produced here too? - mark ___ Aus-soaring mailing

Re: [Aus-soaring] Pete Cesco on TV

On Feb 29, 2016, at 12:42 PM, opsw...@bigpond.net.au wrote: > > Well done to Pete Cesco on channel 7 Adelaide interview! Well presented. Apart from that last line. - mark ___ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.base64.com.au

Re: [Aus-soaring] Microair M720 Installation manual

On 17 Feb 2016, at 12:34 AM, Michael Eales wrote: > Appears to have been a very effective purge of the internet of the wiring > diagram for the now EOL Microair M720. > The bit I am after is the external wiring connection diagram. > Does anybody have a electronic copy?

[Aus-soaring] Passing this on - Ian Linke

As list admin, I get copies of bounce mail messages for posts that, for one reason or another, haven’t made it to the list. Mostly spam, in case you’re curious. Anyway — Ian Linke responded to Jim's thread about canopies from yesterday. Passing it on: From: Ian Linke

Re: [Aus-soaring] Wing frequency Procedure

On 1 Dec 2015, at 9:42 PM, Justin Couch wrote: > There is also one case where it didn't (Bathurst's DG300 that delaminated the > spar caps from the wing didn't pick up a freq change, but the tap test did). Interesting - I’ve spoken to Brits who had never heard of the tap