WA FSU's

[Dog One]

Here's a question for the oldies, back in the days of Flight Service Units, where were the FSU's in the Kimberleys. From memory, was it Port Hedland, Derby, and Wyndham(later becoming Kununurra)?

[Nil defects]

Yes that's correct. They were the only Kimberley ones plus other WA ones were:

Meekathara
Carnarvon
Wittenoom

They were great days. Really helpful guys with lots of local knowledge. Nice to be able to get weathers in person, submit a flight plan and have a chat about what was going on around the traps.

So much for progress!

[chimbu warrior]

Don't remember Wittenoom, but do recall Kalgoorlie and Derby. Cocos also had an FSU.

KG and CC not in the Kimberleys, but still in WA.

[Dora-9]

I don't recall one at Wittenoom either.

The 2 Kimberley FSU's were Derby & Wyndham.

The other WA FSU's were Port Hedland, Carnarvon, Meekatharra, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie, Perth & Forrest.

Griffo, where are you?

[peuce]

Ah ... is the "Tinny Club" still in existence at Hedland?

P.S. Didn't Karratha also have a FSU at one stage?

[gcafinal]

The Tinnie Club at Port Hedland was converted to offices by the Town of Port Hedland and also used for party hire purposes. I do not know if it is still standing. The last time I saw it was in 1997 and it was infested with frogs !!

[Miles Long]

Reckon Halls Creek had one in its day.
The radio gear was "uninstalled" in 1976 by myself and one other. We were radio techs working on the Kununurra FSU installation at the time.

[Dog One]

Flinders Island closed around 1976 too, that was probably the first round of ecomonic thinking by the Department

[triadic]

Nobody has yet mention Broome.... it was there as a small AFIZ for the RPTs until 1970 when it was closed and one of the first remotes made to Derby. Dixy Goddard was the OIC there when it closed. At night time you could often hear traffic on the ground at BR from DB and occasionaly from PD.... it was all on 122.1. (some good inversions)
1971 saw the diversion of a MMA F28 to FTZ (due FG at BR & DB) with minimum fuel and that skipper was known to always have a 1000lb on for Mum & the kids.:ok: The first F28 arrived around 69 and was MMJ. It lasted a few years before the FK series arrived.
The MMA F27 used to come from PH to WI then BR and DB arriving early hours. For that the DB FSU opened around 0400. There was a few MMA crews based at DB, one for the F27 and the other (2) for the Twotter. MMY was the one that took over the Kimberly run from the DC3 and also did the Cockatoo & Koolan Is run. The F27 had a crew change and went on to KU and DN, then out to GTE and GV.
The RFDS (Vic Section) had a QueenAir based at DB - FDV at that time. Then there was dear old Dick Roberton (RIP) who had a 337 for many years, (AEF/AEP/AEJ)) and a 206 (DSP) that flew every day with never a drop of oil to be seen on the cowls... thats something for a 337!!
There were heaps of personalities up there then and one or still are still about, tho' somewhat older!
Places like Halls Creek & Wittenoom had the old Aeradio station (before the transition to FSU's) - others such as Daly Waters, Forest & Oodnadatta were similar, all closing about the same period in the late 60's.
Those were the days.....!!:ok::ok:

[Dora-9]

triadic:

Yes, but I doubt Broome ever had its own FSU.

I flew FDV out of Derby in 1967 and again for a short while in 1968, the Twin Pioneer was still flying then (1967), replaced by the Twotter the following year - I certainly have no recollection of an operating FSU at Hall's Creek.

Cheers!

[flying-spike]

Would that be the one off the side of the Koolan Island strip?
I was one of the Perth FSOs that took over Canarvon and Meeka etc. as they closed. Before that I was in Mount Isa not long before it closed. Only 3 years before as a newly graduated FSO I was told I had a job for life because we were the HF specialists. It was sad to see the remote units close and then the job itself disappear.

[Dora-9]

The Twin Pin off the side of the strip was already there in 1967. It's replacement was another Twin Pin, VH-AIS(?).

[Dog One]

Was AIS the Twin Pin based at Derby, that they loaded with ballast to weigh it down due to cyclonic winds developing and then had it blow over, with all the ballast wrecking the fuselage?

[Howabout]

Daly Waters triadic? What incredible history. I am old enough to remember when it was an international alternate - and that's a bloody long time ago!

[triadic]

Yes, Broome had a FSU tho only a small AFIZ, a bit like Geraldton at the time. Dixy was there for a period ex PD & PH. He was the OIC when it was closed. Operationg hours were limited with a one man show, mostly just there for the RPT and the Met reports in the morning.

The twin Pin was there thru 69-71 when I was in DB. It was in the BHP hangar down the end which was also used by Dick Roberton (Aerial Enterprises) It never left the hangar when I was there, but later turned up in Bankstown a few years later.

I think it was Peter Brook that was the RFDS pilot at the time, and then Jan Ende came along and he then went to the new base at WM and married one of the nurses. Peter was out of flying for some time then returned to the RFDS in Qld. Retired from active flying now I believe.

There were lots of Aeradio stations prior to the 60's and many closed as the equipment got better. In WA, Albany, Forrest & Halls Creek were there until the mid or late 60's. Elsewhere we had Flinders Island, King Island, Oodnadatta, Daly Waters, Cloncurry, Normanton, Bundaberg & Mt Gambier.

Who from the old FS School in Henty House remembers Sid Hulse, Gentle Harry and Don Brown???

yes those were the days......... and it did provide a "service"....! :ok::ok:

[Dora-9]

Triadic:

With respect, I'm not sure that your comment about the Twin Pioneer being in Derby over the years 1969/71 is quite right. Checking my log book, my last RFDS time in Derby was March/April 1969, using Beech 65 VH-CFI (I can't recall why FDV wasn't available then, but I do well remember my embarrassment at flogging around the Kimberley in an aircraft festooned with "Rottnest Islander" titles). At that stage the RFDS were using the AIS hangar but I'm fairly sure the Twin Pioneer was gone.

But it's a long time ago, possibly I've got this wrong.

Peter Brook STILL works for the RFDS at Brisbane (I'm still in occasional contact), although he's no longer flying. Jan Ende, of course, is still flying in Perth and we speak often....

[ANCIENT]

Broome definitely had an FSU when I went there in 64. Horrie Miller used to come in when a stranger arrived, always interested to have a chat.

[catseye]

Triadic,

you need another visit to PNG for an HF refresh. The HF net up there works very well and provides a good service.



Not sure if you got a fly in the front on last trip. :D

Dont' forget Dubbo and Cooma.

[flying-spike]

I remember Sid taking me aside when I finished the course and asking me to keep an eye on one of the Brisbane-bound new guys as he pretty young and not "experienced in life". He needn't have worried, when this guy got the opportunity the young bloke took a trip to the Philippines and "broadened his horizons"

Brian Scherr was our senior instructor, Bill Ware taught Met. The course was full on and only 11 out of the original 20 finished the course. One female was sacked after the final sim session on the last day.

[The Voice]

Griffo you old reprobate where ARE you?? This is your question to answer .. ;)

When I was a younger thing there were FSO's stationed at KU .. used to talk with them from DN FSC .. obviously met a lot of former Derby Meeka and other WA FSU based FSO's when I was in PH FSC mid to late 90's

Hey Spike I was on 69 .. which course are you talking about? Dear Sid .. he was positively ancient when we were there .. and Bill and Met .. that managed to stump quite a few on my course ..

[triadic]

Dora-9. Yes the memory bank is not up to speed any more, but I do recall seeing it in the hangar as had not seen one previously. Never saw it out of the hangar tho'.

Re CFI, I recall that Civil's did the major Maint for the RFDS, so u most likely had a loner whilst FDV was in the shed at JT (??)

Yes I saw PB in CNS a few yrs back when he was relieving for a bit. Have not seen JE for many yrs.

Voice, course 69, u mst be a young fella!!

[The Voice]

yep .. was in one of the last courses that went through, then the scourge of the aviation profession ripped my job of a lifetime away from underneath my feet within a few short years .. mind you it's led to a few other aviation related opportunities since then .. but I'm still a tad bitter and twisted about that ancient history .. as for the fella bit? depends in which context you refer ;)

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

Hi Voicey,

Nice to see ya still in 'the land of the living'....

And Mr D-9, YEP still 'ere....LUVLY time at Duxford etc....however, some of this is before my time even.....and the mammary banks are fading...a bit too much 'red' oi reckon...

HLC did have an 'Aeradio' Station in the looong ago, but I'm not sure of the dates of its era. No doubt, consolidated to Derby/Wyndham, and eventually to Kunners as the HF became more 'reliable' and the $'s were measured out...

In my flying time 'up there', 1970, PD had the Twr, and a FSC - Flight Service CENTRE...(Wow), for the surrounding few hundred miles, which were all fairly busy in those halcyon days.
Carnarvon was the next one down along the coast, and Meeka for the inland route.

Wittenoom had closed prior to that time, (as far as I can remember) so we were in HF comms with PD when servicing the railway construction sites down Tom Price and Paraburdoo - then called 'Camp 232' - way...
(232 miles in from the rail head at Dampier)

KA Ad was still called Dampier then, KA Town not yet built - and one called PD FS for service.

I used to fly into Broome, and HLC reasonably frequently on runs from PD, but can't remember who was 'wot - where'.
Worked with Dixie many years later in PH FSC - very nice man.

'Frank W' used to tell the story of the daily DC-3 service thru Wyndham, with the captain saying something like 'your VHF is a bit off freq'.
So Frank would get on the 'station bike' and, in 40Deg C, ride down to the transmitters at the other end of the ad., and with screwdriver, adjust 'the pot', then ride back, and say 'How's that'? NO, that's worse, was the response, and so,.....back on the bike to turn it the 'other' way... True Story!
Progress has been made folks!

I also did the mail run from PD to the Northern stations - that used to be either a DC-3 or a Dove service. I did it in a '206', or sometimes a
'182' when Murchison had the contract,...there's 'economy' for yas...remained on PD HF for all of that, except for the occasional 'sun-spot' activities of late 1970, when the good ole MMA (then) FK.28 at FL280 became a handy VHF relay station...Thanks guys, you know who you are.

'82 - '85, When serving at Derbs as an FSO, also did some 'charters', and KU was also quite busy. Had 2 x FK.28's daily then and the occnl third on a school special for the kids...those were the days...tarmac space was at a premium. HF was the ONLY comms for the Kimberley in those days.
Our VHF's were at DBY and BRM only. For some 'late SARTIMES' the only way to contact some pilots was via the ABC Radio with a broadcast 'item' following the 7 o'clock news! Much embarrasment as the whole of the Kimberley learned that 'so & so' had forgotten to CNL.....
Good ole 'Aunty'....:D

Not many phones out there even then.

The NW highway from PD had only JUST been sealed as far as Derbs, but from there on, was still bulldust.

BRM was worked as a remote AFIZ from Derbs 'no.2 console', and the 11am arrival FK.28's - one from PH direct, and the other the 'milk run' via PD, BRM used to arrive in the circuit at DBY AT the SAME time quite often - the rivalry was luvly. We used to 'score' the landings by holding up a huge number as they were taxying in - a '9' could very easily turn into a '6' when the CB's were over the top....the 'degree of difficulty' was never a factor.

Derbs FSO's were also the accreditted MET observers for Derby, and we were on a 24/7 roster for this purpose...remember 'that fog' episode with the FK.28?? I was in the Pilbara working 'elsewhere' when that occurred, but heard all about it.

I used to pass thru Forrest FSU around '68 thru '69, on ferry & training flights, and they were great at arranging anything from lunch, to fuel, to lights....that rotating beacon was visible from a 'fair waaaay' out...
And for a fee of 50c, one could park in the hangar!
One Butch D had a 'spot ht' of 4,000ft plus on the local WAC - marked as 'Bull**** Hill'...and demanded the students at the time note it for LSALT...

When at KAL, our FIA extended out to the WA/SA border, so we worked Forrest from there. Never did find that hill.

Albany also had a unit at one time. VHF only, and a 'one man' split shift to handle the morning / evening RPT. A VHF repeater later, and that was worked from Perth. Can't remember the era, it was prior to my working at Perth from SY. Mick W was still carrying out the whalespotting at Albany for the whaling industry in his 337. He was in constant contact with his ships but, due to 'requirements' still had to have a SARTIME with us...:rolleyes:

Anyway enuf for now. All very remote comms now - more's the pity - as there ain't ANY 'local knowledge' these days....:sad:

Oddly enuf, some things don't change - I personally put in a submission to have a VHF repeater put on the top of Mt Bakewell, near York in WA - probably around '87 - '88, ALL 'other' infrastructure already in place as many other radio / TV stations etc utilise this site, and this would give tremendous coverage to the Wheatbelt and to Cunderdin - a heavily used navaid training ad.

67nm from Perth, and on the ground CUN is still a HF call....
The repeater was costed out at less than $10K...a drop in the ocean....

WA was very well served by FS in those days, as was the rest of AUS...
I can say that, both as a 'user' of the service, and, later as a 'provider' of same...

Best to all.
Happy Landings:ok::ok:

[Dora-9]

Triadic:

MMA initially had the contact to crew/maintain the RFDS Queen Air. After PB, the MMA contract pilot, threw a huge wobbly because the RFDS wouldn't buy him a Riley Dove - getting a Beech 65 instead - and in revenge stuffed up the operation big time, plus also upsetting the MMA Station Engineer to the point that he (the engineer) was always looking for an excuse to ground the Queen Air), Civils got the contract. Which is how I got involved.

Normally FDV was ferried to Jandakot for the 100 hourly, and returned to DB a few days later, so I suspect something more was involved on this occasion as I had CFI up there for six weeks.

[flying-spike]

I was on course 58. We finished in Feb1983. Bill Ware was a funny bugger. He told me straight out that I would not pass Met. When I finished the final exam after about an hour and a half I handed the paper to Bill on the way out, I was first. He just shook his head. The next day he read the results and I topped the class! From memory we had to interpret 24 hours of observations across Victoria. My explanation was 180 degrees off course but I explained it so well he gave me top marks. I still have the course photo somewhere but lost the pretty Met certificate.

[SOPS]

I dont know when it closed, but Onslow had a FSU at one time. When I worked up there in the 80s the foundations of the building were still at the airport. Edited to say..I overnighted once in Forrest, long after the FSU had closed, but all the equipment was still there and there was even a "movie theatre" in the hanger!!!

[triadic]

SOPS.... I think you are correct, but in those days it would have been Aeradio.

My guess is that it would have closed in the early 60's at the latest when PD was rebuilt.

When the service changed its name to FS, there were still many pilots for some years that would call "Derby Aeradio"......!

It was interesting that a number of FSUs were all built to much the same plan - Meeka, Derby, Broken Hill and Mildura were but four. One of the seniors in the then DCA was pro ATC and actually promoted the cultural difference between the two services. He had a number of the FSU buildings that had a wall of windows built so as they faced away from the aerodrome!! Derby was an exception, but many of the others above faced away from the activity!! Gave the back door a lot of use!

An interesting article appears at:
Mildura Flight Service Unit - c.mid 1970s (http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/MI%20FSU%20c.80.htm)

Paul LeG worked in MI for a few years and then in ML as a Network Super. Bob Amos stayed in MI and had a part time job supervising CASA exams.
The FSU later was occupied by Southern Australia Airlines (from the mid 90's) as their admin HQ until around 2003 when they were combined with Eastern, part of the building is now airport admin and the area in the picture is occupied by Hertz (or it was last time I was there). The Airways museum at Essendon has a lot of FS history including the old consol from MI.

[SOPS]

This is a great thread..please keep up the history updates for the benifit of us oldies!!!!!

[Nautilus Blue]

67nm from Perth, and on the ground CUN is still a HF call....

Thread drift, but as 120.3 is at PRL behind that 'scarp' thing and the radar is up at KMD, radar coverage at CUN is actually better than VHF coverage!

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

Yes Mr 'NB',

At Perth FSC, if I remember correctly, we could maintain two way VHF comms with acft in the CIRA at CUN -
IF they were in a 'high circuit' ...yes
If they were in a 'normal / low circuit'...nope.
And, as far as I can remember, that VHF was at Parkerville.
The 120.7 'Flightwatch' freq is still there. (AS far as I know - now....its been a while...)
The RADAR head at KMD must have been in a better location....

The 'other two' Flightwatch freqs are those 'left over' - one at ARGYLE and the other at PD.
There's a whole LOT of WA in de middle.....

Anyway - its all 'academc' now....but, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Cheers:ok:

[Traffic_Is_Er_Was]

I was on 56. Bill Ware was a true gentleman, and the oracle of all things Met. Who could forget traipsing up to the roof of Henty House to peer around the ML skyline practicing obs. Brian Scherr was a funny bastard. Bob Amos at AMMI was my training officer during my field training there. i can still remember sitting around the kitchen table in the unit in Carlton I shared with two other trainees (one got the chop in the sim in the last week) trying to memorize the AFTN addresses for all the FSC/U's and other ATS units around the country. God, it was 30 years ago and seems like yesterday sometimes.

[triadic]

The FS days were something to remember. We won't see it again in this country! Best things I learnt in FS was to touch type and how to say no to ATC!! We did morse in our course (that's ageing me...) Certainly gaining the knowledge of the ATS system was often an advantage as a pilot.
There are other places like CUN where there is no/poor VHF coverage, but good radar coverage! Often there is coverage, but not on the published freq for the area. Only local knowledge covers that. Pilots don't seem to be taught much about the ATS system these days, and it shows!:confused:
There were 12 starters on my course, with 9 passing out. I think the last member of that course retired not that long ago after holding an operational job in BN post FS.:)

[Knackers]

Me and Jane working at PD 1981, with Neil Hood the FSCS:

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-3pGhFGRuyF0/UGYpYdESUGI/AAAAAAAACh8/24Ik8u2UU4w/s800/janedavidfsc1980.jpg


Jane working the FISs combined on a Sunday, 1981, photo by Peter Mustoo:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ApQ2I7hzETo/UGYobBVifBI/AAAAAAAAChY/YdmL6QgDuGE/s640/janefsc1980.jpg

[Nautilus Blue]

Ex FSO GRIFFO - no flightwatch VHF any more, "the last remnants of the old republic have been swept away ..."

triadic - more embarrassing when the older local pilots know the frequency coverage better than the newer ATC's!

We gained radar and lost local knowledge and face to face contact with pilots. The beginning of the decline was when they stopped painting the cars DCA yellow, and rock bottom was when we lost the ensign.

PS looking at those pictures - I want my minilight back.

[Ex FSO GRIFFO]

JEEZ!!!

Wonder wot all them pretty colored lights are for.....??

I never did find out.....
:sad:

[Stationair8]

Old timer used to tell a story about a female FSO, that worked two jobs at one of the remote WA FSU's. Worked for DCA by day, and was involved in social work in her other job, if you know what I mean!!!. Apparently did very well out of the second job, plenty of spare cash was made while using the DCA provided house.

[peuce]

Knackers, I remember a couple of FSOs at Hedland going out beside the runway at 2am in "Car One" to shine its spotlight on the undercarriage of an RFDS aircraft with unsafe undercarriage indications... as it did some low passes. Apparently all looked okay and the aircraft landed safely.

[flying-spike]

I did my field training"out west" where the FS supervisor and one of the operators were married. They were both "vertically challenged". The joke was that they were going to buy a mini panel van and kit it out as a camper!

[Knackers]

You want Car 1? I'll give you Car 1!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EUt7Ly0DKeM/UGYocBJMkOI/AAAAAAAAChY/ldCwJVxbtF4/s512/Hedlandfsc.jpg

This was the Crash Vehicle for on-aerodrome command comms.

Photo by Mark Webb, RIP mate:

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-rA1opqEYP8k/Tc4MGxabeAI/AAAAAAAABVQ/S-A_W8WsHgk/s512/webby.jpg

FS supervisor and one of the operators were married. They were both "vertically challenged"

I remember!

[flying-spike]

Is that the "Spider" that went from Brizzy FS to ATC?

[saintmikeII]

As a former FS officer I can confirm that there was a FS unit at Broome and yes it was there until Jan 1971 when Dixie Goodard closed it. I worked with him in Port Hedland during 1971-2. He died around 1988. Other WA units were Wyndham (closed in 1977 when the unit transferred to Kununurra). I worked in ADKU from 1978-81. Derby managed Broome airspace via a VHF link. Wittenoom was operating when I first arrived in Port Hedland but closed around mid 1972 and the officer moved to Karratha - I think it was only a AFIZ (20-30 nm radius). There was an Aeradio Unit at Halls Creek in the early 1949-53 period. I think old Norm Valentine was the last OIC, before he moved to Wyndham.

This is a great site for old and bold pilots and FS staff. Rgs

[Tiger35]

I think that Port Hedland was a Flight Service Centre (FSC) rather than a Unit (FSU) in the 1980's. I think Hedland was one of the FIRs before the consolidation started to the two current FIRs in Australia.

[divingduck]

I'll toss a few names into the pot for posterity...
I was in Derby 85 to 87, ex SY FSC, then to WP and RK before moving to the dark side of ATC.
Our boss was John Apps, Chris Philbrick was a supervisor, Graeme Spong (who died of a heart attack whilst I was there), Hugh and Linda Barker, Peter Brooks, Anita Siebert, Chris Boycott, Peter Hobson, Peter Kleinhanss, Bruce Bergholtz, Yogi (can't think of his name), Marcus Kube, Dave Guerin, Bruce Bebbington, Noel Embury (I think) and a couple of others that I can't quite remember at the mo'.
I do vividly remember listening to the HF and hearing Mal Billet up in KU with that high pitched squeaky voice that he had ;-)

[QSK?]

As of 1 Oct 1963, the Aeradio units (later to be known as Flight Service units after 1965) in WA were:

Albany: Aerodrome Flight Information Zone (AFIZ) SFC/3000ft AMSL
Broome: Flight Information Zone (FIZ), later to become known as Flight Information Areas (FIA); Derby was only an AFIZ at that time
Carnarvon: FIZ
Cocos Island: FIZ
Derby: AFIZ SFC/3000ft AMSL
Forrest: AFIZ SFC/3000ft AMSL
Geraldton: AFIZ SFC/3000ft AMSL
Kalgoorlie: FIZ
Meekatharra: FIZ
Port Hedland: FIZ (no control tower and no FSC then)
Wittenoom: AFIZ SFC/3000ft AMSL
Wyndham: FIZ

Prior to '63, there were also Aeradio units located at Glenroy Station (Air Beef Scheme), Halls Creek, and Onslow but these all closed before that date.

The Broome FSU was closed in '71 and Derby was expanded to assume Broome’s FIA functions, an FSU was established at Karratha (AFIZ SFC/5000ft AMSL) sometime around 1972/73 to support the increased air traffic servicing the Hamersley railway and mining operations at Tom Price and Paraburdoo, the Wittenoom and Forrest FSUs closed in ’72 and ‘73, the Albany FSU was closed in ’74 and the Wyndham FSU was decommissioned and its functions transferred to the newly established FSU at Kununurra sometime around 1977.

After 1985, with the advent of satellite communications capability all remaining FSUs were slowly consolidated into the Perth FSC under the Integration, and Modernisation of Air Traffic Services (IMAS) project which was completed sometime around ’95.

I’m a bit hazy now on some of the dates, so quite happy to be corrected.

[Al Timita]

divingduck
Yogi (can't think of his name) and ...and a couple of others that I can't quite remember at the mo'
"Yogi" aka Mike Saunders

Others who might have been there at the time were the Slades (Tim and ??), Colin Jeffrey, Brian Jackson, Terry Burt, Mark Rick, Patricia Plunkett.

[Desert Duck]

divingduck

I remember Mal Billet well - altho I never met him.

Having spent many long nights flying around WA - more often than not Mal's high pitched squeaky tone was the only readable HF station.

[peuce]

...more often than not Mal's high pitched squeaky tone was the only readable HF station

What about Bali, Bali, Bali!

[Spodman]

Port Hedland was an FSC, used to take somebody's airspace at night, forget who. Maybe Derby, but that airspace went to Perth soon after I got there, which should have made it a FSU maybe, but it was open H24.

Was there 1989 to when it thankfully closed in 1991. Was asked if I would extend there is the closing was delayed. Not for a minute:8 Had a nice time there, but what a dump! And I went there from Meekatharra!!

Crew at Meeka while I was there: Chris Downey, Blue Sawade, Graham Webster, Tracey Smiley, Peter Garamy, Chris Boycott, Deb and Dave Powell and the highly esteemed Jack Kleinhanss.

Crew at Port Hedland will remain secret to help them forget :}

Mal was very clear on the HF, but a bit like an ice-pick in the ears if you had your volume up to hear a faint aeroplane and he piped in...

[Bill Johnston]

A general question regarding Aeradio units. I'm a meteorological researcher and I'm trying to work out the link between Aeradio and met-people. I hunted for photographs of Aeradio offices, and there are some, but I can't find any that had meteorological enclosures. Many Bureau field offices are at the same location as most of the AR locations. Does anyone have knowledge of whet changed and when?

Cheers,

Bill

[QSK?]

Bill, I can probably help you if you let me know how I can contact you as I cannot post reply to you through PPrune.

[Seagull V]

Try the good folk at the Civil aviation Historical Society. See Airways Museum / Civil Aviation Historical Society (http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/) for contact details.

[Bill Johnston]

Bill, I can probably help you if you let me know how I can contact you as I cannot post reply to you through PPrune.
QSK? I'm not sure how I can link directly with you. Any suggestions?

Cheers,

Bill

[QSK?]

Bill

send an email to [email protected] with your contact details and I will contact you.

[kaz3g]

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Location: Brisbane
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Twin Pioneer
Would that be the one off the side of the Koolan Island strip?
I was one of the Perth FSOs that took over Canarvon and Meeka etc. as they closed. Before that I was in Mount Isa not long before it closed. Only 3 years before as a newly graduated FSO I was told I had a job for life because we were the HF specialists. It was sad to see the remote units close and then the job itself disappear

I left Cobra in the late 1970's but my good friend Ian Dobson stayed n and got good rain at Minnie Creek. He was then killed chasing cattle in what had been old Lachie McTaggert's C150. I think you might have been in Carnarvon when he was training with Tropicair.

Kaz