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Old 31st Oct 2020, 16:26
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havick
 
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Originally Posted by Sunfish
Lookleft, all I see is another brand new ten story building in Canberra full of public servants and glossy brochures. I attended a fire two years ago started by two kids doing circle work in an old ute in the King Valley (myhree fire) . By the time we got there as backup an hour and a half later, Elvis and two Hercules were already working the ridge.

How fast is this new national body going to be able to react? How do we avoid a national fleet turning into a white elephant - too slow to react, too important to be used on small fires and, like the grand fleet at Scapa Floe, being kept in reserve for “the big one?”.
It’s quite simple, you would have NAFC build into the next round of tenders that companies must be australian owned and operated under a CASA AOC and not a discreet AOC with aircraft registered abroad.

Watch everything come to a grinding halt as CASA gets their fingers in the pie.
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