Hey WE'RE FAMOUS!!!!
From Brisbanetimes.com.au today.
January, February, April, May ...Tony Moore
April 16, 2009 - 11:52AM
It is a desktop calendar with a good heart and sensible messages for Australia's pilots.
Don't drink and fly, don't take drugs and check the medication of your prescription drugs.
It has handy calendars for 2009 and 2010.
The only thing it is missing is the month of March.
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) this month sent a colour plastic printed desktop calendar, to about 20,000 private pilots around Australia.
It was supposed to remind pilots about the new compulsory alcohol and drug testing for Australian airlines which starts at the end of April.
Instead, recipients are taking notice for other reasons.
"Whoever designed and proof read that flyer at CASA must have a substance abuse problem," wrote `Curved Approach' on the Professional Pilots rumour website.
Another poster, `Sunfish', was not so eagle-eyed.
"My wife rescued my copy from the bin (just to see what it was about) and is miffed at the omission because her birthday is in March."
CASA's media manger Peter Gibson is fully aware of the mistake.
"Obviously it was an oversight," Mr Gibson groans.
"And we are not pretending that it was something that we developed as a strategy or something," he said.
"But we have received quite a few emails and people are blogging about it."
The cost is described as "modest". But there wouldn't be much change from $10,000.
And no, there won't be a reprint.