Brindabella Pan call

[Desert Flower]

Just heard Brindabella 325 give a Pan call after takeoff out of Cobar. Reason given was a cargo door warning light on, & pilot suspected rear cargo door may be slightly ajar. Aircraft is back in the circuit area for a landing now.

DF.

[The Green Goblin]

Oh no! breaking news indeed!

Quick someone, post the weather!

[kalavo]

Taf ycba 090043z 0902/0914
22015g25kt 9999 light showers of rain sct030 sct080
fm090900 22010kt 9999 sct030
inter 0902/0909 4000 showers of rain bkn015
rmk fm090200 mod turb blw 5000ft
t 14 15 14 09 q 1016 1015 1016 1018

[troppo]

bawhahaha you guys crack me up. I was going to be the first to have a dig but thought I'd leave it to the experts. :D

[VH-XXX]

Quick! Someone also post a photo of the aircraft from airliners.net

[tmpffisch]

Here. The media are going to use this one....

http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2009/12/25/1225813/556585-australia-qantas.jpg

[ProProp]

Well Brindabella is a codeshare partner of Qantas so close enough for Joe Public.

[Widewoodenwingswork]

Captured by the Cobar refueller on his iPhone.

http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/211/cache/sofia-flying-telescope-airplane-door-open_21174_600x450.jpg?01AD=3lHuGZR0J83GLFalB2naImU6Bp5QZOzA hiE56_QjI6jeJZzCUPMCvhA&01RI=643BA72C0D33D85&01NA=

[troppo]

Are you on drugs? They gotta use the national icon
http://www.ozzienews.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Man-pisses-over-people-on-Jeststar-flight-from-Auckland-to-Singapore.jpg

[tmpffisch]

Not this one?

http://australianaviation.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/737-838_ZK-ZQF_SYDNEY_4MAY2011_SETH-JAWORSKI.jpg

[beechie]

you guys didn't read the taf did you. some pretty serious stuff.

mod turb blw 5000ft

[Jabawocky]

you guys didn't read the taf did you. some pretty serious stuff.

Quote:
mod turb blw 5000ft

This crew is clearly negligent, sign of the times really. It should have been a mayday. The ship was in iminent danger. Can't teach these 150 hr CPL's anything can you. And what were they thinking in such weather.

[Scamp Damp]

C A D E T S ! ! !

[Aeromuz]

hahahahaha..........gold...........Love your work gents

[The Green Goblin]

CADETS? looxury!

It was one of those pesky GA Pilots with all their bad habits that certainly left the door ajar!

Tsk tsk, now the union is claiming outsourcing is the reason for the error. If they continue to spruke such unreasonable claims, we will be forced to issue sourkraut for all crew meals.

Managements worlds best practice plan in allowing the Pilots to be taught how to land the aeroplane certainly saved the day. 2000% payrise imminent.

Pat yourself on the backs fellas, without management insisting in highly trained cadets to world best practice standards, the Pilots could never have landed the aeroplane and the world would have ended.

CASA officials could not be reached for comment. There was an iPad giveaway at the chairmans lounge which required regulator oversight in the interests of air-safety at the time.

Meanwhile the ATSB is investigating. The report should be completed in 2026.

[Ozzie Mozzie]

We could speculate all day about the pilot's actions and how it could have been prevented, but have a bit of respect guys.

I mean, the crew have probably only just finished their first beers of the night and you guys are all carrying on about what went wrong! Wait for the report.

:E

[eocvictim]

I was expecting to read another metro driver got the prop on the locks in flight again.

[apollo85]

C'mon guys, please have some respect for the families of these pilots!!

I have recently got my PPL at Basair, and you defiantly cannot blame the pilots, this is a maintenance problem, as i've have seen this happen time and time again in my C152! I cannot work out exactly what has happened, as I have flown this route many many times on Microsoft flight simulator and this has never happened to me.

I agree with the above though...Mod turb below 5000' - this pilot obviously has no meaning of the word airmanship!

Gosh you lounge chair pilots and your guessing, it is time you left the ATSB to do their job!

Also... can someone advise me of the best noise cancelling headset... Bose or Lightspeed???
:D

[The Green Goblin]

I was expecting to read another metro driver got the prop on the locks in flight again.

How else do you air start 'em :D

Getting them on the locks in flight is not the hard bit though, it's actually very simple for the average dimwit.

Getting them off the locks in flight, well that is in the realms of a fast track ace out west :8

One brave Pilot did try......something about low level aerobatics in a metro springs to mind. First Pilot ever to get out of a metro who wasn't sweating cause they were hot! Something about cold sweat rings a bell :}

[troppo]

apollo...yeah mate. you can get your own advice. just start a thread called best flying school and headset and see how far it gets you :}

[The Green Goblin]

Speaking of Brindabella guys what are they like to work for? The reason I ask, is that I'm in year 7 now and I really want to become a Pilot.

Do you think I should try to get a job with them after I finish my CPL? I haven't decided yet if I should go the charter or instructing route though what do you think?

Which school is the best for this?

Do you think I should do my instrument rating straight away?

How about my ATPL subjects?

I don't really want to leave a major city though. Is there anyway I'll get a job in Sydney if I offer to work for free to build some hours?

Do you think that they will hold it against me if I tell them I'm a kiwi?

[CFPlnr]

you'll be perfect GG. Remember to email your CV, it's gotta be at least 30 pages listing everything you've done since starting school.....!!

[apollo85]

This thread has me in tears!

P.S My parents are willing to pay for all my training via a school which offers a guaranteed job at the end, or would it be wiser to just go straight for a cadetship?? :ugh:

[zappalin]

This is ridiculous. I just spent all of my parents money getting a licence for exactly this type of job, and since I've finished I haven't had a reply to a single email!

[Tinstaafl]

You forgot to include a picture of yourself in your CV, dressed in a pilot's uniform: 4 bar epaulettes, tie, generic wings bought from your local pilot shop, peaked cap, whiz wheel in a breast pocket. Preferably with your most complex aircraft flown (C172RG) or the most (C152) as a background.

And you wonder why you haven't been offered a job in spite of offering to '...even fly little turboprops until a jet position becomes available' in your covering letter.?

[Move On]

Great, only a short time ago there was an engine shut down on the Cobar run, now a Cargo Door warning.....Got to love the old Metro's!!!

Keeps one on their toe's.

Move On.:ok:

[Sunfish]

Cargo door warning light? Shonky Airbus design, Boeing is so much better......