At 12:05 PM 24/05/05 +1000, you wrote:
>As an outsiders quick & admittedly largely uninformed view... But an
>opinion from the chattering masses none the less and readily intended to
>be torn to shreds ;-)
>
>The primary difference between ADSB & FLARM with respect to sports
>aviation seems to
Mike Borgelt wrote:
We live in interesting times. The fine detail of ADSB implementation will
indeed be fascinating.(code for GA and sport aviation gets screwed - again.
Wow - lots of very interesting stuff in just a day - this list is really
amazing in terms of the expertise that it has avail
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>
> Interestingly the IGC has banned the use of FLARM in contests as it
> breaches a rule that says you can't transmit data from one glider to
> another.
Even more interesting
I rather hope that GA & sport aviation won't be screwed -by the ADSB
implementation. Given the ADSB realities as people see them now, what
position should gliding be taking, what should we be arguing and with
what data to back us up?
A brief, but concise opinion... Worse than a camel. Not
There is an article in the latest Classic Wings magazine about a flight
of three RAF Vickers Wellesley that broke records on a flight to
Australia in 1938.
One of the pilots was a Flt/Lt R T Gething.
The article states:
"The first serious accident occurred on November 28, 1938 when the
engine
yes Leigh, It would have been Richard who retired as Air Commodore R
Gething and was the GFA Secretary for quite a few years . Richard also
established a speed record to Capetown. His wife Mardi flew Spits among
other aircraft as a pilot with the Air Transport Wing during WW2. You
mention an
Mike Borgelt wrote:
>We live in interesting times. The fine detail of ADSB implementation
>will indeed be fascinating.(code for GA and sport aviation gets screwed
>- again.
>
What exactly does this mean mike, I haven't seen any inference that anyone
is being screwed. Maybe you should attend th
Leigh,
Yes, it was the same Dick Gething ex Sunraysia and GFA secretary and a
remarkable fellow he was. His wife is Mardi, also a remarkable individual.
Ian P.
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On Wed, 25 May 2005 08:03:23 +1000, you wrote:
<<< snip >>>
>
> The other item missing from the discussion is that ADS-b was not designed
> for aircraft to aircraft crash avoidance, rather it is system designed to
> replace the current SSR environment, anti collision was a bonus, as all the
> airc
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1374692.htm
Plane's vortex raises a
roof
A house under Sydney's flight path lost
two-thirds of its roof tiles on the weekend when a plane flying overhead
created a vortex.
Peter Smith was walking past the home on Unwins
Bridge Road in Sydenham
On Tue, 24 May 2005 22:45:25 +0930
"Bob Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> yes Leigh, It would have been Richard who retired as Air Commodore R
> Gething and was the GFA Secretary for quite a few years ... You
> mention an obit...perhaps I missed seeing it. I wonder what issue it was
> in.
Wel
Pete Siddall wrote:
Well, I have some info... Ann Woolf at Waikerie has been scanning her
collection of AGs, running from 1948 to 1997. The scanned AGs will be for
sale on CD.
That's pretty awesome. I look forward to hearing more.
She has made an index of articles and author. The index is
After the amount of time spent scanning everything, Anne certainly deserves
some return on her time investment. If it were set up on a website as a paid
subscription I would suspect that the cost per subscriber would have to be
extremely high to pay for the hosting of however many gigabytes it w
> >Well, I have some info... Ann Woolf at Waikerie has been scanning her
> >collection of AGs, running from 1948 to 1997. The scanned AGs will be
> >for sale on CD.
> That's pretty awesome. I look forward to hearing more.
Ann's up to 1989, and plans to scan them up to 1997 when the format of the
m
Pete S et al,
I have a set of AG's going back to the mid 50s but without an Index it is
hard to refer back to an individual article.
Thus I, for one, would be quite happy to purchase a copy of the Index alone,
at say the CD price $20 + P&P, to help compensate Ann for her work, even
though I do no
Hi Owen,
> I have a set of AG's going back to the mid 50s but without an Index it
> is hard to refer back to an individual article.
> Thus I, for one, would be quite happy to purchase a copy of the Index
> alone, at say the CD price $20 + P&P, to help compensate Ann for her
> work, even though I
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