Fire spotting job ad
Eastings and Northings? DEC have their own map grid system (COG System) and it is by far the fastest and most accurate system I have come accross, even better than that I used in the ADF. There is also GPS backup (sometimes two GPS). This is a great first job; it's well paid and you get to work with a good bunch of blokes. If you get to Manjimup you also inherit the pilot's bar (The Dog House) 
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Flying the spotter circuits can get boring after a while, but the air attack supervision tasks can be exciting, particularly in a big season. You get lots of bush strip and extreme Xwind experience too. Greg is also a very fair man and a good CP. The aircraft are also maintained well. Lots of young women in the area to keep the pilots entertained too, just don't take them back with you...
.Flying the spotter circuits can get boring after a while, but the air attack supervision tasks can be exciting, particularly in a big season. You get lots of bush strip and extreme Xwind experience too. Greg is also a very fair man and a good CP. The aircraft are also maintained well. Lots of young women in the area to keep the pilots entertained too, just don't take them back with you...
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don't get too excited 0.5 Pro Rata so $29000 - $36500 + other add ons eg meal allowance travel time penalty rates for on day off etc. Still very good first job. Was my first job and loved it.
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i applied also, haven't heard anything yet.. its only been a couple weeks, and being a govt role, i wouldn't be worrying too much yet...
good luck for those who also applied!
cheers
good luck for those who also applied!
cheers
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Nothing yet. Looking back at the old threads, people started getting calls in the second week after applications closed. Going by that time frame we should hopefully hear something this week.
Good luck guys
Good luck guys
Jeepers!
Wonderful to hear this operation is still going.
Good luck to all applying.
This was my first flying job back in 1974; that was 22,000 hours ago.
Manjimup was great, Nannup a laugh, Margaret river, an undeveloped backwater. Best fun ever was 3 months based at Walpole, using a paddock on top of a hill as the strip.
Be a laugh sometime to create a roll-call of all ex fire-spotters and to see where they are all now. Another 4-5 years and I
might do it as a retirement project.
BSD.
BSD - Rego of the first 'plane I got paid to fly
Wonderful to hear this operation is still going.
Good luck to all applying.
This was my first flying job back in 1974; that was 22,000 hours ago.
Manjimup was great, Nannup a laugh, Margaret river, an undeveloped backwater. Best fun ever was 3 months based at Walpole, using a paddock on top of a hill as the strip.
Be a laugh sometime to create a roll-call of all ex fire-spotters and to see where they are all now. Another 4-5 years and I
might do it as a retirement project. BSD.
BSD - Rego of the first 'plane I got paid to fly
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I'm not in WA so trying to avoid a toll call unless necessary.
Me; started 13/12/74 and did 2 seasons. Alec Macdonald gave me the job after I hounded him at at Jandakot. It was Airwork Australia then who had the contract and Greg Simpson worked in the office at the time. There were already 3 pilots in Manjimup when I joined, all from NASA at Cessnock.
Subsequently ended up in the UK, flew an Aero Commander 500a, then the Handley-page Herald, the CL-44, 737, 747, 757, and 767.
Best off-field landing for me; landing on the main road (gravel) into Northcliffe to pick up a forestry officer who needed to view an out-of-control, control burn.
Happy days. To those of you that get the job, enjoy every minute.
BSD.
Subsequently ended up in the UK, flew an Aero Commander 500a, then the Handley-page Herald, the CL-44, 737, 747, 757, and 767.
Best off-field landing for me; landing on the main road (gravel) into Northcliffe to pick up a forestry officer who needed to view an out-of-control, control burn.
Happy days. To those of you that get the job, enjoy every minute.
BSD.
Best off-field landing for me; landing on the main road (gravel) into Northcliffe to pick up a forestry officer who needed to view an out-of-control, control burn.
Not strictly my first flying job, FMN was the first I flew, in September 2010. Only the one season but lots of fun. Not really interested in civvy flying, at least not full-time, so I'm consulting and flying Aeros and warbirds on the weekends.
Patients Grass Hopper. Is a government Dept things take time
Everyone who is under consideration probably should have heard by now.
Thanks Matt.
Congrats, I am here in Perth too, didnt hear a thing so I guess I missed out then. Dammit.
Any idea how many they called for their course or spots they have open??
Congrats, I am here in Perth too, didnt hear a thing so I guess I missed out then. Dammit.
Any idea how many they called for their course or spots they have open??
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