by Sarcs | Apr 14, 2023 | Accidents and Inquiry, ASA, ATSB, Aunty Pru - First solo, Aviation Safety, CASA, Minister for Transport, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
First this week’s #SBG: Of doing that which is needful. It is quite difficult to nail down exactly which ‘what and when’ created the notion in the political mind that they should put as much distance between themselves and their responsibilities to the...
by Sarcs | Apr 7, 2023 | Accidents and Inquiry, ASA, ATSB, Aunty Pru - First solo, Aviation Safety, CASA, Minister for Transport, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
First this week’s #SBG: CP and PNR. A couple of aviation acronyms there, which, with some small use of imagination, may be applied to the current state of ‘oversight’ and management of the aviation environment. Critical Point (CP) also know known as Point Of...
by Sarcs | Feb 3, 2023 | Accidents and Inquiry, ASA, ATSB, Aunty Pru - First solo, Aviation Safety, CASA, Minister for Transport, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
1st this week’s #SBG: Of Multiple system failures. An airman’s nightmare. There you sit, fat, dumb and happy (as the bards say). That expression relates to a routine’ operation – Fat – for fuel; Dumb – ignorant of Murphy’s ...
by Sarcs | Jan 2, 2023 | Accidents and Inquiry, ASA, ATSB, Aunty Pru - First solo, Aviation Safety, CASA, Minister for Transport, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
Ref: Is miniscule La’King inflicted with AIOS?? & Punched, bored or countersunk? It is, in most instances, a phrase used in Australia as an ‘answer’ to a question about someone; it goes like this – “has Fred any idea what he’s about?...
by Sarcs | Dec 23, 2022 | Accidents and Inquiry, ASA, ATSB, Aunty Pru - First solo, Aviation Safety, CASA, Minister for Transport, Senate Estimates - Unplugged, Whimsy and Waffle
First this week’s SBG: To the Pale – and then; beyond. Oh, I love a ducked up country, a land of counter claims a land of government agencies, that listen carefully to complains, a purpose of avoiding all the blame. A land of broken aeroplanes, Of pilot’s...
by Sarcs | Dec 8, 2022 | Accidents and Inquiry, ASA, ATSB, Aunty Pru - First solo, Aviation Safety, CASA, Minister for Transport, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
First (via the AP forum) this weeks #SBG: “I’m sorry if this all seems a little rushed and desperate. It is.” My ‘cunning plans’ were carefully laid; no DT jobs to worry about (clean slate), the radio tuned to the cricket; the work arranged so that...