Crawford defends CASA Position on GA
Acting Director of Aviation Safety defends CASA's position on general aviation.
If the ‘CASA position’ is anything like the one depicted – it will be impossible to defend.
More than almost any other CASA self promotion picture, the one above clearly demonstrates the amateurish, uneducated, unthinking, dangerous approach CASA have toward aviation safety. What CASA is promoting in that picture is both wrong and dangerous; let’s hear the Scots Git defend that. Bloody amateur’s…….
How can anyone defend the ‘position’ of the clown in the Hi-Viz vest in the picture above? Standing directly in front of a high compression engine. Two hands on a three bladed propeller, muscles tensed obviously going to ‘pull the prop through’. Of all the dumb things to do, when he bends forwards as he must - his fool head will directly in the path of the next blade through. If that engine kicks over (and they can) it will be some other poor sods left to clean up the CASA mess, once again. Hell CASA will probably prosecute the maintenance organization for faulty magneto’s or some such.
With a relatively modern, high compression aircraft engine, like the one shown, ‘swinging the prop’, or even pulling it through a compression stroke is a whole world away from the ‘Tiger Moth’ days and those happy times of ‘round (proper) engines. Horses for courses - the right way, with an engine and propeller 'user friendly' and even then, not without risk.
Spot the subtle, but important differences.
Acting Director of Aviation Safety defends CASA's position on general aviation.
If the ‘CASA position’ is anything like the one depicted – it will be impossible to defend.
More than almost any other CASA self promotion picture, the one above clearly demonstrates the amateurish, uneducated, unthinking, dangerous approach CASA have toward aviation safety. What CASA is promoting in that picture is both wrong and dangerous; let’s hear the Scots Git defend that. Bloody amateur’s…….
How can anyone defend the ‘position’ of the clown in the Hi-Viz vest in the picture above? Standing directly in front of a high compression engine. Two hands on a three bladed propeller, muscles tensed obviously going to ‘pull the prop through’. Of all the dumb things to do, when he bends forwards as he must - his fool head will directly in the path of the next blade through. If that engine kicks over (and they can) it will be some other poor sods left to clean up the CASA mess, once again. Hell CASA will probably prosecute the maintenance organization for faulty magneto’s or some such.
With a relatively modern, high compression aircraft engine, like the one shown, ‘swinging the prop’, or even pulling it through a compression stroke is a whole world away from the ‘Tiger Moth’ days and those happy times of ‘round (proper) engines. Horses for courses - the right way, with an engine and propeller 'user friendly' and even then, not without risk.
Spot the subtle, but important differences.