Originally Posted by
KRviator
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.
I fail to see how RAAus providing contact details to airport owners to collect landing fees has any bearing whatsoever on this accident or others. If anything, the collection of fees may assist airport operators in providing better equipment for their visiting pilots like AFRU, papi, pal and the like.
But after that idiot left Temora for Coota in a trike after last light, we have another apparently similar prang in relatively quick succession.
That was in April 2012, some 6 plus years ago.
Given the relative proportion of RAAus to GA one can only wonder why that is?
Can you tell I what those proportions are and comparison of hours flown?