VH-XXX

Ok, so this came up on the 'other' forum. Who's going to fess up to this?


1.A GA school aircraft (I beleave with nav student) took of in wind/dust/rain storm which I watched develop for over one hour. I think wind would have been over 40kt with vis under 2000m. I watched it in the rain as I thought it was an accident just waiting for a place to happen. The storm was over 15 min later!;

2.A V tail Bonanza took off and did a 90deg RH turn at about 150ft over gum trees about 900m down 1600m long strip. Its a normal LH circuit!

Common sense is just not common!!!

(Somewhere near Warrick)

ForkTailedDrKiller

OK, OK! Before anyone jumps to conclusions - this was not THE FTDK!

I have departed Warwick twice only in the FTDK - on the weekend of 20/21 Sept.

Departure #1 was with a left turn off Rwy 27 and back over the top.

For Departure #2, after a conversation with the PA25 glider tug with glider which was climbing to the south of the strip, I held the Rwy 27 heading to 5 nm from the aerodrome datum and then turned right to YTWB. Anyone who suggests otherwise needs to have their eyes tested!

Dr

j3pipercub

VH-XXX,

If you really want to start flinging incidents around, I've got a diary full, and guess what, 95% of them are Jabiru postcodes out of Bundaberg!

j3

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Don't know who he is [we've never met...except on r/t], but he and his students at YKRY are to be commended for their awareness,sensible position reporting and courteous sharing of the CTAF.

This old f**t arrives in imc often enough that a conflict could arise ,but never has whether on an RNAV, NDB app, GPS arrival, because he obviously drills into his students sensible basic use of radio, and his students know where they are in the circuit.

Those Jabs are bloody hard to see from 1-2nm behind on final though ! And the C210,FTDK[ "the one and only!"] or M20J , which have all interacted with him,are all a bit quicker.

Can't say the same for the gliding instructor who met me head on in the B55 "demonstrating a non-standard right hand circuit to his student " with the radio turned down.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Solid overcast,8.30am,and I'd made two inbound calls while in imc and a circuit call.

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Jabawocky

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the Kingaroy school seems to do a good job! Have arrived there with their a/c doing circuits and the young lady (inst/student) was also very well sorted in R/T and SA. Good work up there!

J