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Old 3rd Sep 2013, 05:38
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RA-Aus is quite a private association of which you need to be a member to view pertinent information. It is also one of the reasons why their aircraft register remains private except to the tax man. You can request to view the information on premises, but nobody wants to have to do that, so overall agreed tecman, it's a crap system.

The recent absence of crash reports in the magazine was due to someone "preparing them in their own time" and that person no longer preparing them!

Some basic reports have now been produced again but don't contain anything much more than aircraft type, location and TTIS.

I would happily volunteer to prepare some crash reports with specific details however the reports would only be as good as the information provided Getting them to the stage of being useful to others could be difficult unless there's something blatantly common such as an engine issue that could help someone else prevent their own failure in that area. In the GA LAME world, they've seen it all before and know what to look for so there's little value in a LAME reading crash reports for pistons falling off a Lycoming, but in the RA-Aus world where most of the pilots are the maintainers, the required information is somewhat different to the GA world.

As the FTDK says, nobody is yet to invent a new way to crash an aircraft. We've been doing the same thing since aircraft were invented and we still continue to repeat history
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