RE: [Aus-soaring] Concealing Aircraft Registration

2006-12-28 Thread Stuart & Kerri FERGUSON
Michael, I share your sentiment; I don't think most of the media would understand the significance of what they have seen or taken a photo of following an aircraft accident, as far as they are concerned bad/tragic news is good copy. As far as educating the media is concerned, not even th

RE: [Aus-soaring] Concealing Aircraft Registration

2006-12-28 Thread Allan Armistead
In NSW as well (and I have a daughter and son-in-law who work for RTA) access to registration detail is locked up very tightly indeed (at least on paper) and anyone in the system who accesses this info without specific work-related cause may well be dismissed. I suspect the average newspaper photo

Re: [Aus-soaring] Concealing Aircraft Registration

2006-12-28 Thread Scott Penrose
Your comment about privacy and sensitivity is taken a set further in the fact that anyone can source the aircraft register on line while motor vehicle registrations details are not available even on request due to "Privacy Legislation" in the ACT at least, and probably other states too. The po

Re: [Aus-soaring] Concealing Aircraft Registration

2006-12-28 Thread Ben Jones
Scott, not having a go at you but. Legal reasons or not is pile of B.S, What legal reason would that be ?? Just because a reg of a aircraft is open to any one who can punch in a CASA or GFA web page and search for a particular rego and get the particular details of the owner and most likely