Re: [Aus-soaring] registering trailers

2003-11-23 Thread Christopher Mc Donnell
Dear Stuart, Below is the South Australian exemption for glider trailers taken verbatim (sic) from the South Australian Government Gazette of 7/12/2000 page 3454. It is identical to the Victorian exemption which it followed and I assume all other States and Territories did. If a trailer fits

Re: [Aus-soaring] registering trailers

2003-11-23 Thread Christopher Mc Donnell
Stuart, P.S. my last. Your National Association's last advice to it's members re this issue was in June 1999 in Whats New and is copied below. Nothing since then that I can find. NATIONAL TRAILER TOWING LIMITS The battle to get a nationwide acceptance of uniform glider trailer overhang limits

Re: [Aus-soaring] Juniors in your Club!

2003-11-23 Thread Rob Colleen Moore
Thanks Adam, I will pass the letter around to the AAFC members. At 06:17 PM 21/11/2003 +1000, you wrote: G'day, Please find the attached Juniors.doc file. Regards, Adam Woolley _ Hot chart ringtones and polyphonics. Go to

[Aus-soaring] Narromine Cup Week

2003-11-23 Thread Anne Elliott
It's all happening at Narromine! Close to 70 pilots are here and more expected. AnneE IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here___ Aus-soaring mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Aus-soaring] A CASA-free celebration of the joy of flight on 17th December

2003-11-23 Thread Boyd Munro
Hello Roger, I likeyour idea of subversion. Do you know someone with a Pawnee who might bring it? I'llbuy the fuelfor as much tugging as the Pawnee cares to doso we can see a few machines soaring around the You Yangs. There is at least one VERY flash glider coming but it's not the

Re: [Aus-soaring] How many NAS PilotCD-ROM have your received ?

2003-11-23 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 11:26 PM 22/11/03 +1030, you wrote: Hi Pedro, I can answer the first part of your question re operating under CASA. You really should not feed the trolls, Chris. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796

RE: Aircraft Noise (was [Aus-soaring] Airport Sale by Roger Druce)

2003-11-23 Thread Jason Armistead
For those seeking the October 2003 discussion paper that Roger mentioned, the URL was incomplete. It should be http://www.dotars.gov.au/avnapt/sepb/and/downloads.htm After spending a while navigating the DOTARS site, I finally found it. The front page quick search function was totally

Re: [Aus-soaring] NAS , GFA recommendations

2003-11-23 Thread Mike Borgelt
There is a meeting in Melbourne today by the forces opposing the new NAS rules including the pilot and controller unions.(see page 14 of today's Australian - the story headed Air changes dogfight near). In usual fashion this is reported with the union scaremongering first and information about

Re: [Aus-soaring] NAS , GFA recommendations

2003-11-23 Thread Brian Wade
What a singularly unhelpful contribution to this thread! How any reasonable person could interpret: "As this change is being introduced just as the soaring season is upon us, the appropriate action for us is to continue to avoid this airspace totally while our friends on the other side of

Re: [Aus-soaring] How many NAS PilotCD-ROM have your received ?

2003-11-23 Thread Derek Ruddock
What about version for my Commodore 64 while you're at it? 8) You are lucky to have a readable CD. We Mac users don't. I know nothing about programming, but surely it can't be that difficult to make it Mac and Windows readable. Graham !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN

Re: [Aus-soaring] What is Safer?

2003-11-23 Thread Derek Ruddock
So presumably, if you are 5 miles from the field and at 1500 feet, you're OK? Stupid rule [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20/11/03 12:33:42 G'day All, The club that I'm currently flying at has a rule that, a Pilot that hasn't done a paddock check is NOT allowed outside the CTAF (10mile) because it is

Re: [Aus-soaring] NAS , GFA recommendations

2003-11-23 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 01:01 PM 24/11/03 +1000, you wrote: What a singularly unhelpful contribution to this thread! How any reasonable person could interpret:This means - continue to treat the airspace which is now (before these changes) Class C as though it is still 'controlled airspace'. If you have

Re: [Aus-soaring] NAS , GFA recommendations

2003-11-23 Thread Mark Fisher
This thread reminds me of an old Irish joke form years ago. (No disregard to the Irish of course) The government had decided to have a transition from driving on the left hand side, to the right hand side of the road . Local shires thought this was all a bit difficult, and decided to phase

Re: [Aus-soaring] A CASA-free celebration of the joy of flight on17th December

2003-11-23 Thread Milton Holmes
Hello Boyd I think that it would be fitting for ASA to institute an annual Tungland Trophy for the pilot deemed to have committed the most remarkable feat of aviation during the year - like the Darwin Awards. cheers Milton - Original Message - From: Boyd Munro To:

Re: [Aus-soaring] What is Safer?

2003-11-23 Thread John Haunton
I am quite sure they mean you to stay in gliding range and not more than 10miles out. (that is, in sight of the airfield) You can easily be 50 Km out and still in gliding range in this country, even 100 km or more on a good day if you have a decent ship, it is probably not a good idea for