Bankstown Airport Meter parking
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Bankstown Airport Meter parking
Rumour has it that BAL (Bankstown airport limited) are going to impose meter parking around bankstown airport.
As far as i can see GA training in BK already has one foot in the grave.
With impending pilot shortages and training in the toilet, how many more obstacles can be imposed on GA before there is some sort of gov't intervention.
As far as i can see GA training in BK already has one foot in the grave.
With impending pilot shortages and training in the toilet, how many more obstacles can be imposed on GA before there is some sort of gov't intervention.
I wouldn't put anything past BAL but I wonder how they will go recovering unpaid fines? The WA dept of infrastrucure recently found itself in very hot water indeed passing on registered vehicle owner details to private companies.
Charges
Two seperate entities, two seperate invoices.
BAL (or whatever they call themselves this week) charge (light) aircraft parking at about $13 per tonne per day, the discount for payment in advance is not worth the loss of cash-on-hand plus the loss of bank interest.
ASA charge around $15 per full stop movement.
BAL (or whatever they call themselves this week) charge (light) aircraft parking at about $13 per tonne per day, the discount for payment in advance is not worth the loss of cash-on-hand plus the loss of bank interest.
ASA charge around $15 per full stop movement.
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With regards to pilot shortage and training in the toilet, theyre just personal observations of the decline in flight schools, aircraft movements and cpl's being issued to australian students.
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I think BAL is trying to kick out some flying school so that they could make room for Regional carriers such as REX??
Surely they'd be running low on $$, cos they've been doing alot of construction work around right??
by the way, as far as I know, did one of the flying school close down recently at YSBK??
Surely they'd be running low on $$, cos they've been doing alot of construction work around right??
by the way, as far as I know, did one of the flying school close down recently at YSBK??
I think BAL is trying to kick out some flying school so that they could make room for Regional carriers such as REX??
With the recently announced 6000% (yes, 6000, that's not a typo) increase on the GA apron at Mascot, anything is possible. The new rate (if the Minister and ACCC sit on their blots) will be a minimum of $35 per 15 minutes. Rex are screaming like mad. The GA apron is not subject to the price restrictions at the terminals ---- but 6000% should get somebody's attention??? ---- paying the same for a small GA aircraft and an A380???
If SACL get away with this, imagine the try-on we will see from BAL.
No more light/night freight at Mascot, the GA apron is one of the areas where a shopping development has already been knocked back.
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I heard a similar rumour about parking limitations at Bankstown airport a couple of years back, thankfully nothing became of it. There are always rumours about BAL, and there are lots of suspicious folk at BK.
Mind you, it should go nicely with the 10km/h speed limit on Airport Ave.
Mind you, it should go nicely with the 10km/h speed limit on Airport Ave.
Leadsled, Dick seems to listen to your advice. Convince him to take up this argument with the government..Parking space is far more important than airspace changes. GA needs room to do business. GA needs to be treated the same as any mode of transport. Convince Dick, aprons and runways are PUBLIC ROADS. AND not just any public road but a National Highway.
The Feds didn't think this through. It was one thing to sell off the leases, it was another to give control over the movement areas of those leases. Ask the local council how hard it would be to close one of the streets on the public side of the fence because you want to build a shopping mall.
Dick could actually win this! I would rather remember him for saving the aerodromes rather than the huge mess he is creating in airspace reform.
Cummon Dick, howaboutit
The Feds didn't think this through. It was one thing to sell off the leases, it was another to give control over the movement areas of those leases. Ask the local council how hard it would be to close one of the streets on the public side of the fence because you want to build a shopping mall.
Dick could actually win this! I would rather remember him for saving the aerodromes rather than the huge mess he is creating in airspace reform.
Cummon Dick, howaboutit
With impending pilot shortages and training
You can't be serious??
You can't be serious??
Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Philippines, Japan, Zimbabwe and South Africa nationals have relatively recently come into Australia. Obviously, this is federal Government's answer to training and experience problems in flying training in Australia.
Actually, it is not much different to what is going on with skilled labor in WA and Queensland generally, where foreign nationals on a 457 are preferred, for the several obvious reasons.
We might have quite a few unemployed CPLs around, whether they are employable or not is another issue altogether.
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YUP~~~they made me go-around (drove-around) in my car for no particular reasons on the weekend. Sooner or later we're gonna have to get Clearance from 119.9 to transit through Tower Road~~~
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Anyone else notice the lack of "road work" on the link road despite it being closed for "road work", good one BAL, nicely done there
Folks,
With the recently announced 6000% (yes, 6000, that's not a typo) increase on the GA apron at Mascot, anything is possible. The new rate (if the Minister and ACCC sit on their blots) will be a minimum of $35 per 15 minutes.
With the recently announced 6000% (yes, 6000, that's not a typo) increase on the GA apron at Mascot, anything is possible. The new rate (if the Minister and ACCC sit on their blots) will be a minimum of $35 per 15 minutes.
I am a regular user of DOM5. I have checked the SACL website and their pricing options but can't see any such notification.
Can you point me to a document so I can put it in the right hands?
Ta.
Thanks GF.
Holy crap
So parking a Baron at DOM5 from 8am to 4pm = 8 hours x 4 x 38.50 = $1380 in parking.
When the airports were privatised the Howard Govt justified it by calling it "competition".
Nothing like handing your mates a monopoly business, eh? 
Holy crap
So parking a Baron at DOM5 from 8am to 4pm = 8 hours x 4 x 38.50 = $1380 in parking.
When the airports were privatised the Howard Govt justified it by calling it "competition".
Nothing like handing your mates a monopoly business, eh?