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Old 28th Apr 2008, 12:12
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Grrr Name The Operator

I've been looking up alot lately (yes in the middle of the night) and have noticed that on the YSSY-YMML route from about 12AM onwards there are what seems to be turboprop aircraft operating this route in the opposite direction on a regular basis. Can anyone shed some light as to who the operator is and what aircraft they use?

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looks to me like someone is 'charging their laser'
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How'd you guess
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In that case, Turkey, the aircraft you can see are military short-range bombers, carrying live munitions.
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Lasers - turning the tables

I spent several days over the last two weeks flying an aircraft over Rockhampton shining a laser at everything, and everyone, in town... about 150,000 times per second.

Nobody seemed to object
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Is that you!!!!

Were you down around the downs lately as well?

The grass was all green before that C4XX series laser thing burnt all the country off last month!

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Is it a Toll ATR?
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Yes we operate around Dalby and Kingaroy regularly, but we aren't the guys you read about in the NOTAMs.

Our laser is a Class 1 (Eye safe) unit and runs out of puff at about 5,000' - the other guys (Fugro I think) have a much stronger beam and operate higher, mapping larger areas.

Brisbane Port and Chinchilla this week - see you there.
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The ones i know that operate out of SY-ML that time of the night are PelAir doing the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper run operating a Brazilia or a Metro whenever the Braz is out of action. Other than that there are a couple of Metros flying Australian Air Express freight.
Roumors are that you will see a few Saab 340's join them soon.
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