Can I suggest you guys are just taking an opportunity to bag the oposition with no real substance.
Questions.
1 How close to a cyclone can one fly before it is considered unsafe?
2 When should one move their aircraft away from an area under cyclone warning?
3 What experience have you guys got making decisions regarding the above?
4 Have you ever been through a cyclone or are you just NT newbies?
Don't even start on Darwin ATC's comments re the above. What on earth would they know? An example of ATC's knowledge of aircraft was made very obvious to me at a chief pilot/ATC meeting a few years ago when I commented about getting late descent clearances. The answer from the senior ATC person present was that he doesn't understand why we need say 60nm to descent from 10,000 feet in a Bandit/C402/PA31 tyoe aircraft yet the jets who are much faster pass 10,000 ft at approx 30nm. Doesn't that say it all??
OR report sighting a C210 in your six o'clock!!
If you know he landed in winds exceeding the aircraft limitations, if you know he flew VFR in non VFR conditions or if you know he committed any other crime against humanity reort it the appropriate authorities otherwise you sound like whinging school girls.
Last edited by RENURPP; 18th Mar 2005 at 03:46.