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Old 5th Jan 2009, 23:57
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I love flying the good old 402 at 170kts. Your day always goes into paid overtime.
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Old 6th Jan 2009, 01:09
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Government aircraft??

Are the RFDS and the police still the only PC12 operators in Australia?
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A nice Private one based at YRED


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Old 6th Jan 2009, 04:35
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There's a couple of private PC12's operating in WA.
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Old 6th Jan 2009, 04:53
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I think from memory, there is a privately owned one down at Margret river.
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Old 6th Jan 2009, 05:36
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Always a worry when the aviation manager is worried what colour tips he should put in his hair, next he will be sporting an ear ring or showing the boys his nipple ring!

Notice on their website the night requirements for night experience, is WA night time different to QLD or Victorian night time? Must be different blackness in the west to the east?
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Old 6th Jan 2009, 07:24
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Yeah, it's much darker over here in the West.
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Old 6th Jan 2009, 07:26
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I know the blackness in Kununurra was very different to what I grew up with in Sydney!
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Old 6th Jan 2009, 08:56
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There is 2 doing charter in the east. VH PIL and i think the other is 00I, and some others doing mining work over there. An earth moving Co has just got one in SA. VH VAT.
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Old 6th Jan 2009, 11:01
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PIL was the first PC 12 I ever flew. It was the demo pilots last name in reverse.
Was a very nice piece of equipment........... being brand new and all.
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Old 6th Jan 2009, 11:10
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Wiz, not sure what the rego is on that PIL anymore, but the new PIL is a PC-12NG. Very nice machine, .

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Old 6th Jan 2009, 13:04
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Ah, righto. I did suspect that had been changed on the original.
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Old 7th Jan 2009, 00:12
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Is it just me or does it appear to others that the tail of the '12' is out of proportion as in looks too small?
We need jets in the fleet, then who would want to fly a plane that has links to a 'boat'!


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Old 7th Jan 2009, 07:10
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Gee's Wal.
Thats 100 posts in barely 4 weeks.
Wal Mk 3 coming up soon!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 7th Jan 2009, 08:52
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99 of those on the PC-12/B200 debate on various threads...
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Old 7th Jan 2009, 09:04
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It's a pity you can no longer have a signature on pprune, yours could have been something like 'B200 good, PC-12 naff'...
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Old 7th Jan 2009, 10:01
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I really enjoyed reading Flynn of the Outback.
Hope you sought out the problems.
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Old 7th Jan 2009, 12:13
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Wall's on the right rack, leave him alone.
PC-12's do the job fine, B200 even better!

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Old 8th Jan 2009, 00:46
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does it appear to others that the tail of the '12' is out of proportion as in looks too small?
I thought so from the minute I first saw it. The King Air on the other hand.........exactly how an aircraft should look.

Air med, you've confirmed some aspects of the Westops description, but where are the untruths in the story told?
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Old 9th Jan 2009, 10:05
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being diplomatic not stupid
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