Originally Posted by
Squawk7700
The swipe about the landing fees is a back-handed comment that has no bearing on this discussion.
Only partially correct...Yes, an indirect swipe at RAAus management, but...If RAAus were more concerned with their members wellbeing, instead of selling their details, RAAus would put more emphasis into accident mitigation, even if only using overseas reports as an example. Excerpts from AC43.13 in Sport Pilot, synopses from overseas accidents, 'Rulebook review' column-inches on a regular basis, and we might - and I stress
might - not have what appears to be another RAAus pilot, in another RAAus registered aircraft spearing in after last light.
It is all well and good to say that "this could have happened to a GA pilot" and yes, you are correct, it could have. It didn't. But after that idiot left Temora for Coota in a trike after last light, we have another apparently similar prang in relatively quick succession. Beyond the bloke in the R44 up north that made the ATSB reports, I'm not aware of any similar GA accidents recently. Given the relative proportion of RAAus to GA one can only wonder why that is?