Axiom and Swab, thanks for your good wishes.... It is always nice to get a thrashing for doing your job as best you can. We appreciate it. Basically we go where the people are. If there is a specific problem in a location, we can modify our roadshow to incorporate some form of education to address it. Unfortunately as Safety Promo said, we are a very small group and we can only spread ourselves so thinly before we break. I don't see how that affects our credibility or integrity?
Usually on the Roadshow's we have 2 Pilots, 1 LAME, 1 SMS specialist and Someone from BOM to talk about local weather. We also take our Manager to facilitate and present, and 1 Admin Support staff to keep us on track. We are very rarely all at the one location at the one time. The SMS specialist and a pilot will arrive later in the week and the pilot and LAME will depart home.
We like most organisations, have to travel the most economical means within reason. Merimbula meant that we had to drive, and some even took their own cars. No first class accommodation by the way. Last year I stayed at what could only just be called a motel, where I had to stand in the shower with one hand on the towel rail in case the shower floor gave way with the rust. We just wish we could fly everywhere instead of having to spend hours on the road in the car before having to present up to 10:30 at night.
Please don't think we sit around the Resort Pool sipping Chardonnay having a good ole time in between luncheons and "swanning" about the countryside.
As for the FOI's in Ceduna and Hay, I can't answer that as we are not FOI's and have little to do with the Compliance side of things.
Please ask someone who has been to one of our roadshows in Mount Isa or Kalgoorlie or Albury before you decide our efforts are a waste of everybody’s time.