DAMP & Birdsville

[Flyingblind]

Sometimes you just have to shake your head at the stupidity of our regulators in Australia.

[Paul Alfred]

The Mail Plane is also RPT

PA

[Desert Flower]

The Mail Plane is also RPT

Hey PA - you can thank your lucky stars that your company switched the mail run schedule from the weekends to the middle of the week. The poor guys from ASA that had the misfortune of doing it on Birdsville weekends years ago used to be in a right old state when they got back on Sunday afternoons after tangling with the race goers!

DF.

[Peter Fanelli]

Airport staff expecting a RAAF Challenger on Fri for the day & F50 on Sat for the day.

Birdsville airport has staff??????

ASA that had the misfortune of doing it on Birdsville weekends years ago used to be in a right old state when they got back on Sunday afternoons after tangling with the race goers!

Not to mention those who were forced to go there against their will.

Nothing like going to sleep on the floor of a Chieftain alone only to wake up to the sound of someone sitting in the back seat chundering all over the inside of the open door.

Absolute !!!! of a weekend in my opinion. Only high point was watching idiots get the crap kicked out of them in the boxing tent.

[Worrals in the wilds]

Even they themselves are now starting to realise that some idiotic regs were put in place but unfortunately it is a lot harder to have them taken out than put in.

Ooh yeah. Known as Operation Kneejerk in the Organization-Formerly-Known-As-Worrals'-Employer. Implement a cunning plan via legislation and then realize the pitfalls once it's set in stone. Story of government initiatives that Get Tough On Crime/Terrorism/Common sense.

Birdsville airport has staff??????

Last time I was there they bore a remarkable resemblance to the pub staff. They can probably put their BDV ASIC in the same holder as their shiny new Qld Govt (licensed premises) Approved Manager cards, which take about the same time to get issued from OLGR, ie put the forms in now and you'll get the card in time for your retirement party. They also serve the same purpose, that is to show you never got busted for anything.

A mad mate from Cloncurry went to the races and passed out in his swag, woke up the next morning to find a machete thrust into the ground a metre from his head .
Have fun all you brave souls, Caveat Emptor and remember to call back sometime when it's not Races, Innamincka and Windy-dorah are nice too

[multime]

Hiccup?

Morno- thought you and your loser team were from Bankstown.?
Or even worse mexicans.
Big ask to comment on a National ICON.
M

[Desert Flower]

Nothing like going to sleep on the floor of a Chieftain alone only to wake up to the sound of someone sitting in the back seat chundering all over the inside of the open door.

Birdsville weekend in the last few years has been relatively tame to what it used to be when I first got involved in it. People wandering around everywhere in various states of inebriation, cans rolling around in the gutter (sometimes people too!) men peeing behind trees - & this was just on the way up! The old Cherokee sixes would be loaded to the gills with fuel, bums in seats, swags, eskies etc. & you would wonder how in hell they were going to get off the ground! Over the course of the weekend at least one idiot would either get lost, run out of fuel or crash. Ahhhh - those were the days!

DF.

[tinpis]

All hat and no cattle.
Bah!

[Peter Fanelli]

men peeing behind trees

That's better than peeing off the veranda of the pub onto the crowd below.

[Worrals in the wilds]

Or on the feet of the crowd members beside you. Happened to me at a Big Day Out

[morno]

Multime, I'm confused. What on earth are you talking about?

[185skywagon]

Multime, I'm confused. What on earth are you talking about?

Yeah, Morno, I was gunna ask the same question. He's got you confused for someone esle I think.

[Pinky the pilot]

The poor guys from ASA that had the misfortune of doing it on Birdsville weekends years ago used to be in a right old state when they got back on Sunday afternoons after tangling with the race goers!

Yeah DF. I only had the (dubious) honour of one run at race time but remember thinking at the time that I could have cheerfully passed that particular weekend up for someone else.

Although there were'nt too many people around the pub on the Sunday when we were there, the majority were pissed and/or obnoxious bogons!

One was obviously spoiling for a blue with someone but I just ignored the

[Desert Duck]

The testing team never made it to the Races - they sat in Charleville and tested crews on the way home instead.

[Stikybeke]

They must read Pprune.......

[Worrals in the wilds]

Was anyone busted?

[Mainframe]

The Ramp checking crowd have always favoured Charleville, most East bound flights need to get fuel there on the way home.

As for the body count count,

heard a figure of 58 failed in some way or another, overloaded, unrestrained articles, non current charts, all the simple stuff that pilots overlook.

Going to the Birdsville Races (and Brophie's Boxing Tent) is and always will be the blokiest weekend in Oz.

If you fly there dont worry about if you'll get ramped, rather try and gues where!

[Dick Smith]

Did the Telstra Next G satellite based temporary ground station work?

[megle2]

Heard it worked but had problems with demand volumes.

[hurlingham]

Telstra temporary tower worked - not very well though.
Apparently the tech crew did not expect so many devices to register, over 2000 on Fri.
If you could get a line you had to be quick in case it dropped out.