Rat!!!!, I too wonder about safety and just plain common sense of such ops. I will go on record here to say that at times in the YCAB-YCDR-YRED area I have seen a similar thing and I am not impressed by it. I believe CASA do grant some operators an exemption to bust fluffies but I can not see the sense in it. It should not be allowed at ANY time in my opinion.
You have to make a brave assumption that any a/c in the area has a radio, has it on, and on the same freq, and the pilot actually understands what is potentially going on above him and the cloud. Now what happens when its Mr Jerry Attric in his DH Moth with barely a radio, and no idea of exactly where he is and one of these guys Bombs him, they take each other out and maybe someone living underneath.
We have a big enough problem at YCAB with thses guys in VMC, even landing on active and busy runways and or too damn close to them. At least at YRED they take them around the corner and drop them on the beach.
So what gets done about it????????
Best thing you can do is take it up with CASA, report it and follow it through, because some innocent people will be killed one day if it gets far to coincidental.
J
