DAMP & Birdsville
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DAMP & Birdsville
What are CASA going to do with 200 or so pilots and many more intoxicated punters camping airside at the Birdsville races this weekend???
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Get a pot of tar and a bag of feathers ready.......
(Tarred, feathered and run out of town on a rail.)
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Keep your licence and ASIC hidden and just say you are with Howard!
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sms777,
Mate, the DAMP rules apply at any airfield/aviation activity and it will be no fun for those on the receiving end of a positive test. Hiding ASIC/any sign of pilot identity will not help, if you get sprung.
Read the fine print, the rules don't necessarily only apply "airside", which, let's face it, can be a bit undefined at Birdsville.
Tootle pip!!
Mate, the DAMP rules apply at any airfield/aviation activity and it will be no fun for those on the receiving end of a positive test. Hiding ASIC/any sign of pilot identity will not help, if you get sprung.
Read the fine print, the rules don't necessarily only apply "airside", which, let's face it, can be a bit undefined at Birdsville.
Tootle pip!!
Well, excuse me for my ignorence and under informed stupidity but since when was Birdsville an RPT destination requiring ASIC to be displayed by a silly private aviator visiting on a fun weekend?
Can anyone fill me in on this because if it is true, i am staying home.
Can anyone fill me in on this because if it is true, i am staying home.
Birdsville has a 4 times weekly RPT service (2 days a week to Mount Isa, 2 days a week to Brisbane), and has had one for, ohhhh, I don't know. Probably 20 years?
Currently Skytrans, before that Macair, before that Flight West, before that I don't know.
morno
Currently Skytrans, before that Macair, before that Flight West, before that I don't know.
morno
Well, excuse me for my ignorence and under informed stupidity but since when was Birdsville an RPT destination requiring ASIC to be displayed by a silly private aviator visiting on a fun weekend?
Can anyone fill me in on this because if it is true, i am staying home.
Can anyone fill me in on this because if it is true, i am staying home.
Morno,
big gap, but before Flight West, TAA in the 70's early 80's I think. Then nothing till Flight West.
cheers,
185.
Check with the local ARO at the strip. If Birdsville is only serviced by turboprop RPT then the ASIC requirement is usually applied only during "traffic periods". That is 2hrs prior to the arrival until 2hrs after the departure of the scheduled air service.
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That is 2hrs prior to the arrival until 2hrs after the departure of the scheduled air service.
ttmpifsch,
That is one of many sections of the regs that are applied for no other reason except some numb nut public servant thought it would be a good idea.
Even they themselves are now starting to realise that some idiotic regs were put in place but untortunately it is a lot harder to have them taken out than put in.
That is one of many sections of the regs that are applied for no other reason except some numb nut public servant thought it would be a good idea.
Even they themselves are now starting to realise that some idiotic regs were put in place but untortunately it is a lot harder to have them taken out than put in.
Bit like public servants then, a lot harder to take out than they are to put into the job, 