yes, NSCA the biggest most obvious pear on the vine we reckoned.
Guns
Had a conversation one day with a junior pilot who was motivated and looking for new ideas for us. Seems he reckons that fishing the alluring Barrramundi in the coastal freshwater and land locked lagoons would be a good idea. There was just one small problem.. It went like this;
he "you could write to CASA to recommend me for a handgun and I'll stand gaurd against the crocs while the client catches the Barra"
me, 'well I won't answer just yet but imagine this, crocs (the real saltie ones i mean)
will come out of the water without warning at 40klmts /hr and
will launch at least forty feet lateral, six to ten feet vertical, grab the bloody tourist, by then you
might have just about got your gat halfway out of the holster, blown a hole in your foot in panic, and the whole deal
would be terrible for business.'
he, "i'll put more effort into handing out joy fight brochures"
"he" should by now have many renewals up his sleeve on several heavy metal types, a top young fella.
guns, we used to carry them all the time, some would say for survival, at times dispatching the odd mad scrub bull, dingo, donkey or brumby, always without unhanding the controls of course. shotgun pellets in the beef is definately bad for business and strictly vorboeten. I don't recommend them anymore, your ELT is your life saver stick to it.