Jake da Muss

I heard that the cranky old pilot from SHS is finally getting some first hand lessons in customer service...from the long end of a dole queue.

Can anyone confirm? or have any details? Are they looking for another float pilot?

Ascend Charlie

Are these the dills who waste valuable radio waves (and everybody's time in having to listen to it) yapping on 125.8 about how they are on descent to Church Point or taxying at Palm Beach? Who gives a stuff? It seems they are really only talking for the benefit of their other company aircraft 5 minutes behind them, so why don't they use a company freq and GET OFF THE AIR???!!!

OpsNormal

Because it is the d!ckheads who come blasting around Barrenjoey at 150' instead of 500' and all of a sudden there is almost nowhere to go after a floaty lifting off out of Palm Beach in a decent easterly, get it? Not only that, but if you think about it, Cottage Point, Berowra, Pete's Bight and a couple of other places are just underneath GA access lanes to/from BK, and are in most cases bordered by reasonably high terrain, which of course adds to the excitement factor somewhat for both a/c involved if a floaty was to just emerge out of one of the places in front of another a/c un-announced.

Mate, after sitting out the front of the wharf at PLB countless times on a weekend morning and watching all the "L" plater's heading out of BK and showing mummy/daddy/girlfriend the northern beaches at "low level", it is people like these who need skinning, not the poor bar$tard who is trying to earn a living weaving through wobblers.

Go shoot at something else. Most operators are following the AIP to the letter, which is more than can be said for some people flying around the Sydney Coast and associated airspace.

Jake, if you are talking about RB, that is very old news these days, he's been gone quite a while.....

Ascend Charlie

OK, that puts a new slant on things - I didn't know the wannabes were such a problem to you.

maybe you can get a special button to push at headquarters so the Barrenjoey light flashes red when you are taking off or landing?

TurboOtter

Good comment Ops,,,

You missed a couple of points though.
Flying in the Harbour at 1000' and CTR is at 1500' yet you have a piper etc 20' above you, clearly not at his level of 1500'. Encountered this many times.

People think Victor one starts at Palm beach. It doesn't. So you get some yahoo usually below 500' blasting down the beaches obvious to any other traffic.

SHS are not the only traffic at Cottage point etc, so the radio calls are for every one.

When you are in a valley a couple of hundred feet wide below 500' and there are other aircraft about, wouldn't it be nice to hear them. At 3000' feet what are the chances of being in the same airspace at the same time.

The number of times I could see the face of a pilot in another aircaft, knowing that he is not on the correct frequency is beyond a joke. I have followed a piper at 400' from Gosford to Sydney harbour only to hear him on the correct frequency passing Bondi beach, god only knows what he was doing for the previous twenty minutes.

As for SHS pilots using a company frequency I believe they do, the only reason they talk on the other frequecies is avoid coming around a corner face to face with some other low level wanna be

"betta to be a dill than a doh any time!!!"

Jake da Muss

Ops, I knew about RB.

I,m talking about Hugh (the old old Ag pilot ). I heard on the grape vine that he is no longer with SHS and was wondering if he'd finally cracked it and lost the plot. That guy is a lose cannon (too much pesticide and herbicide in his coffee I think). I was hoping someone had some genuine details or instead...... just some gossip.