bushy
. Yer absolutely right about the interior
. worked at TW for 3 years, saw a lot of the bush traffic, no doubt there are many more flying invaluable services that coastal dwellers rarely see or hear about!
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the lack of services
OK, empirically, cost outweighed benefit (supposedly)
but with todays technology, IMHO its time we had another look
SOON!
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things is
. I think enough doomsayers rhetoric and unfortunate happenstances have scared numbers of the punters away
. It would be interesting to poll the general populous about their views on travelling in what they perceive is a light aircraft!
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we all know that flying in most any device (that is registered in someway or another) is still a better chance statically of reaching the intended destination than most else!
a lot of the punters I suspect do not!
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if they knew that each and every one of you knew where the other was (and you made sure it was advertised far and wide) , it would relieve some of their anxiety?
. this enhancement will eventually make the chances of those unexpected (****e what was that) occasions a thing of the past in all classes of airspace
a minimum of automated pilot to pilot alerting (augmented with eyes) .. for remote areas where ATS are not!
. It is too important and valuable (safety wise) across all types of operations not to fund it in the national interest
isnt it?
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I see your point re the term GA
. should your sector be referred to as Non-Scheduled RPT or Light Commercial or some other (as long as calling you something else does not invite bean counters to charge you for other things
)?
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so what do we do folks?
. can we get our collective industry ****e in one pile and get this happening?
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.. what do you think Dick, Bloggs, Ozbus, gaunty, bushy et al
. is it possible?
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.. and for the record, I have not lived within 35nm (as the crow flies) of the coastline for 12 years!
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Dog
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P.S. Dick, .. when I read your last, I got this hilarious scene in my mind of you running around the camp fire in yer drawers, yodelling expletives, swatting out hot embers with your feet
. nothing mischievous about it I might add
just very very funny
. Glad you, the tent and the Jety were OK!
