Dumb Gov.

[mad max]

We are constantly in trouble taking off and landing in odd places here when there is a loverly 2.3km long airstrip that can be seen from 100 miles in space sitting here and rarely used. I drove 15 km to the indiginous community today to try and get an answer after offering $1500 per year if we could construct a hanger at our own expence and have no landing fees. The female CEO who seems to hate men and aircraft feeds me with delaying bull#^*t tactics as if low flying sport flyers may see too much on the ground. I think we have a dumb gov. in power at presant. Sport flyers should be treated with respect and given free axcess to indiginous airstrips. Because I am at presant unable to train someone will sooner or later break there neck trying to teach themselves!

[aussie_paul]

I am with you Max. Let"s get back to some common sense. Common sense in a lot of areas does not seem to be too common these days!!!!Aussie Paul.

[birdy]

Sound like me n arry are due a short holiday up north. ;D

[mad max]

Please Birdy, come ASAP They finally informed me today that we can"t build a hanger. Each Pilot must pay $3500 pa to get through the gate. I was told that I was a naughty boy in the past letting my flying friends turn up at the strip. They still claim it costs the community 85k pa to mow the grass with their free tractor. I went down to Materanka recently, flew off the town airstrip, camped in a tent by the craft, for 3 days. I flew across to the hot springs with a student much to the delight of the tourists and had an evening swim/wash ect. No sugestion from anyone about any fees. I told these local wankers that we are flying for love of flying, only a non profit sport, ect. (I can understand how revolutions and massacres happen now)

[mad max]

Good one Browny. I asked if I could use the 1000 mtrs. of slashed grass outside the fence and was told No because it"s aboriginal land!

[Bill Cross]

Hey Max,Is that the Mandorah airstrip? Isn"t it a public landing area? Have you checked with CASA as to it"s status? Do you want Terry Mill"s mobile number to get him on the band wagon? So many question, so little time

[tryhardgolfer]

Didnt think Max but I know Terry a little, fished overnight with him one time, if you want to go that way I can give him a call on behalf of northern sports flyers.

[mad max]

Thanks Bill. I am sure the Liberals will kick out the dogooders this time. You"d better come back to the NT and get on a victory horse this time. The tide is ready to change. I"m off to check out a wet land for a runway. The old trainer will have to be on floats most of the year. I was having a beer with the member for Daily other day, decent bloke, Mango farmer, GA pilot, crapped himself on his first GA solo, something was thumping on the side of the plane, turned out the instructor left the seat belt hanging outside the door. He wants to learn to fly a gyro, can see benifits on the farm. His off-sider wanted to talk Gyro"s all night. Knew all makes and models, allso wants to learn. There"s a lot of interest out there. Lot"s of fixed wingers being seduced by modern gyro"s performance. (Did you crap yourself when the spark plug popped out of that four cylinder cessna along the Barkly?

[mad max]

G"day Deadalist, Yes, lets go all the way, and only stop short of installing phosphorus bombs (The NT news is in the back of my mind, they"ll make a headline out of anything!

[Bill Cross]

That machine tried to kill me on several occasions. Thought I was going to be a bar ornament in the Goldfields pub one morning with an engine failure on takeoff. Pulled it up on boundary fence. Mag drive failure. Give me a helo auto or a gyro anytime. Wonder if Roscoe remembers his fuel pump dying, just after takeoff, at the glider strip, in TFC, on my one and only instructional flight many years ago. That was the selling point for me.

[mad max]

I used to overhaul GA Slick Magnetos in the late 60s and was shocked at the poor quality. I had seen better quality american boche mags. on rotory hoes! Cesna brought out a Mod. to lighten their engines by leaving out some hardened steel secondary locknuts, but purchased delco starter motors with cast iron CE plates when the cars had similar starters with alloy end plates. I like playing with sport aviation engineering where you are allowed to think logically.

[Echo]

Dumb Govt. ? ...... Friggin dangerous Govt.

[Mark Horan]

hey echo,what"s your phone numbermark

[Echo]

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[gbw]

A farmer named Sid was overseeing his stock in a remote moorland pasture in North Yorkshire when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.

 The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the farmer, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me a calf?"

 Sid looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing stock and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASApage on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.

 The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany .

 Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.

 Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,
 miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the farmer and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."

 "That"s right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Sid.

He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the back of his car.

 Then Sid says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"

 The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"

 "You"re a Member of Parliament for our Government", says Sid.

 "Wow! That"s correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"

 "No guessing required." answered the farmer. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of pounds worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don"t know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for thatmatter. This is a herd of sheep. ...


 Now give me back my *******dog!