The CX fly over was probably one of the best and lowest fly overs by a commercial jet. A low height was intended, but not that low. And it was quite surprising as the Captain was a long termer and a very competent pilot at that.
The result for him was a DCM, which was a shame because 'Wilko' was a good man.
You may be poking fun at said flyover but there has been some serious and well founded concern by Eddie McGuire, the AFP and some smart phone carrying hipsters with twitter accounts who just so happened to be at the grand final.
One brave constable was even seen reaching for his weapon when startled by such an unusual event like a major sponsors commercial aircraft doing a flyby of the arena.
Any truth to the rumour that the crew descended below LSALT with only one operational thronomister
The only thing more stirring than a heavy doing a low level pass is a military jet doing one fast--i personally would have been thrilled to bits, but the average twittertwat should have maybe had a heads-up it was going to happen.Twitter has to be the best thing ever as a force multiplier for clueless stupidity and pointless chatter. A simple PA announcement should have covered it, but hey, they probably wouldn't have noticed it, too glued to their phones.
The Virgin fly-past at the MCG has been lambasted in the press considering the current security alert and the penchant for bad guys to use big aeroplanes as WMDs..prompting Julie Bishops security guard to 'reach for his gun' (he was going to shoot it down? )
Got to admit, without prior knowledge it would have made 'interesting' viewing from say the Eureka Skydeck
The 'good man' who did the CX flypast had, along with a certain ex-DAS, been one of the nasties on the CX Star Chamber, that selected pilots for firing in order to intimidate the rest. A most cowardly episode.
Ironically, he got 49ered himself after the low pass with quite a few company pax on board, and full of transPacific fuel.
Last edited by Captain Dart; 28th Sep 2014 at 05:38.
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