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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Not my choice of employers but if you reckon you can get a flying job with them
just give it a go and clock up some hours so you can move on. Then again some people fit in there so you might actually stick around. Bottom line is that if you need some single hours and they are hiring give it a go (besides, it will put you in the Kimberley so you can take other work).
Do not try living there without a car. Broome or Kununurra maybe but Derby or Fitzroy no way.
~FRQ CB
just give it a go and clock up some hours so you can move on. Then again some people fit in there so you might actually stick around. Bottom line is that if you need some single hours and they are hiring give it a go (besides, it will put you in the Kimberley so you can take other work).
Do not try living there without a car. Broome or Kununurra maybe but Derby or Fitzroy no way.
~FRQ CB
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Just search past Pprune threads. Theres been quite a few on Bushflight, its all there to read.
I wouldnt recommend signing up for the 4K bond to fly the airvan tho...
I wouldnt recommend signing up for the 4K bond to fly the airvan tho...
Join Date: May 2007
Location: qld (if you couldn't work that out from my name!)
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In case you are stupid enough to take the job there:
Rule number 1 - take the bungs out before you go flying
Rule number 2 - don't join the circuit on base, it's not allowed
Rule number 1 - take the bungs out before you go flying
Rule number 2 - don't join the circuit on base, it's not allowed
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Rule number 2 - don't join the circuit on base, it's not allowed
Thats if you actually make radio calls anyway...what the landing fee at Derby these days... $8?
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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Just because you say "non-standard" doesnt mean your allow to do it, your just telling the world, well the guys and girls on 126.7 that your breaking the law...
Join Date: Oct 2007
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pfffffft.... since when did the law matter... it's Derby... lucky that they breath test.. although maybe they should more often... but you didn't hear it from me...since around March this year that place has gone downhill!
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Well the law is a mood point to those in charge up that way. Its changed 3 or 4 times which means that the law is currently wrong until they change it back to the way BF want it to be. Very professional outfit I hear... They are the bush specialists of course!
Radar.
Radar.
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Very professional outfit I hear.
Now we all make mistakes....... but that was the third time in two days I heard him do it........ and it took one of his junior pilots to point it out to him ON THE RADIO, before he corrected it.
was very Bush like.
you have to work two jobs to make ends meet as well. ask anyone that's worked there. Nothing like unloading bags at CTN, then going to work in ya Airvan in the afternoon. 
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Oh come on, leave the old fella alone!! Hes old and senile and cant remember what day of the week it is, or to brush his teeth...for 37 years. He cant help it. Its the gingavitus, attacks the memory too!!
Besides, anyone care to define the definition of a professional? It must be hard flying your aircraft from up there on your high horses, how on earth can you fit through the cabin door with them!!
So what if he had the wrong alt...the damn beaver doesnt get out of ground effect anyway!! Its not goin to be conflicting traffic unless you are driving a boat!!
Besides, anyone care to define the definition of a professional? It must be hard flying your aircraft from up there on your high horses, how on earth can you fit through the cabin door with them!!
So what if he had the wrong alt...the damn beaver doesnt get out of ground effect anyway!! Its not goin to be conflicting traffic unless you are driving a boat!!
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Rule number 2 - don't join the circuit on base, it's not allowed
The Bushies arent that bad, ive seen worse, and with Golden eagle next door now paying all their little budgies 10K above the award I imagine Bushies will follow suit if they havent already. You learn a lot about the aircraft working there too. A lot of people crap on about how you have to work in the hangar, and at times, lets be honest, you cat be stuffed, but it is damn handy stuff to know your way around the guts of your plane when you're out in the sticks with no communiucation and something craps out!!
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Apparently its dangerous, but only in Australia cos CASA say it is. Every other ICAO nation in the world has no problem with it!! But then CASA are still a long way off from converting to all the ICAO conventions!!
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..........................."Whats wrong with joining base anyway?? i do it al the time.
along with plenty off others " Oh boy & to think that these guys have a license!!!! they ought to have 007 stamped on them too, licenced to kill!
Professionalism & airmanship, nothing to be proud of obviously
I hope these guys are up nth where this thread is alluding to well away from where professional pilots fly
Just 'cause some fly for some lesser professional outfits doesn't mean that has to extend to ones own attitude!
CW
along with plenty off others " Oh boy & to think that these guys have a license!!!!
they ought to have 007 stamped on them too, licenced to kill! Professionalism & airmanship, nothing to be proud of obviouslyI hope these guys are up nth where this thread is alluding to well away from where professional pilots fly
Just 'cause some fly for some lesser professional outfits doesn't mean that has to extend to ones own attitude!
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WTF..you can't join on base..no wonder you get your hours up in Aus so quick..I guess joining straight in is out of the question too. What are you supposed to do, an overhead join every time!!??
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You can join straight in, radio call's at 10nm, 3nm, 1nm and give way to traffic already in the circiut, also you can join mid down wind at a 45degree angle and from what I've seen its almost a base for those who use the term mid as a very late mid.