Further damage to GA by airport operators
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: australia
Age: 81
Posts: 207
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
When I grew up I had a 1/10000000 share of an airline, shipping lines, several banks many ports and airports not to mention a post office and all the roads in Australia together with all the railroads.
Can you really tell me that the ordinary person is richer today?
Can you really tell me that the ordinary person is richer today?
Risk management, mitigation, I has it thanks, don’t need your help.
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: where eva the plane is broken down
Posts: 37
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Passed through The Alice last week on a ferry flight. Spent the night and went out to get going early the next morning for an early start to find the the aro’s dont start work till 6am now (first light was 5am i think).
If your an itinerant passing through, you will have to organise airside access the day before. This will be going in the ersa at some stage,
Had to fill out a form to land at the Rock too, even though i was only stopping for fuel. Becoming the norm for any rpt airport.
pi
If your an itinerant passing through, you will have to organise airside access the day before. This will be going in the ersa at some stage,
Had to fill out a form to land at the Rock too, even though i was only stopping for fuel. Becoming the norm for any rpt airport.
pi
Instead of having a dig at someone trying to help the industry why don't you do some proper research in future and look up the CAOs instead of making a half baked statement without the evidence to back it up - just plain lazy.
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Santa Barbara
Posts: 912
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Must be working as no one has been hit.
(apart from Jack of course who was pissed as a newt) pardon the pun.
The Hi-Viz issue was discussed six years ago.
Hi-vis vests to be required at YPJT from 21 January.
Hi-vis vests to be required at YPJT from 21 January.
another degradation of GA and hold the Government accountable for the pitiful situation they have created for the industry
due to their privatization agenda
The government hasn't owned or operated local aerodromes for most of the time they've been in existence.
Unfortunately, in the last 5 years we have seen the creation and expansion of the AAA and a propagation of the "Airport as a Business" and "maximise return to Ratepayers" model, which in turn started the trend of "Council as Property Developer" followed by "lets build a gold-plated airport and charge all the rich operators a fortune to use it".
The Euro-style Part 139 MOS has provided all the justification they could ever have wanted to expand their empires to the point where Scone airport has direct operating costs of about $78,000 pa but extended costs (once you take the management salaries etc into account) of around $300,000pa.
The geniuses at Upper Hunter Shire Council are now taking out loans of $10.8m to fund the airport mods before Part 139 comes into effect, adding $600,000 pa in loan repayments for the next 30 years.
All we need is basic infrastructure at a basic cost - but instead we are pricing our infrastructure through the roof so that only multinationals and government departments can afford to operate in Australia.
THIS is what is destroying GA, and all small family-owned businesses, in this country.
Agree 100% Leafblower. Local Councils and State and Federal Governments are adding layer upon layer of costs on the community with zero or negative returns on investment.
By way of example, our shire, one of the smallest, had a $300,000+ pa. CEO who then seriously argued the need for him to hire two deputy CEOs at $250,000 pa. so that he could concentrate on “strategy”. I say “had” because the community finally arced up enough to have him terminated. Over 50% of our council rates are eaten up by administrative staff salaries and on costs with little or no money left for capital works and that figure is getting worse.
We are also drowning in complex “planning policies” one of which - environment, will require months of paperwork and fees to cut down a single tree - alive or dead. The net result of that policy, like so many others is counterproductive, as farmers are going to poison and pull down as much native vegetation as possible before this latest impost is completed.
Another example concerns aboriginal artefacts; the hoo ha and costs associated with their preservation means that any sane farmer who discovers some will immediately destroy or conceal them. For example the discovery of a “canoe tree” on a property requires the design and creation of a special reserve around it which includes restrictions on what the land can then be used for - all at your expense of course. This happened to a friend three months ago.
As far as GA is concerned, we are blessed with a wonderful privately owned airstrip, but that is under constant threat from NIMBYs and as for council approval to build a much needed new hangar, forget it - even if we could afford the planning fees (heritage, water, aboriginal and environmental plans) not to mention the effing opposition from greenies.
By way of example, our shire, one of the smallest, had a $300,000+ pa. CEO who then seriously argued the need for him to hire two deputy CEOs at $250,000 pa. so that he could concentrate on “strategy”. I say “had” because the community finally arced up enough to have him terminated. Over 50% of our council rates are eaten up by administrative staff salaries and on costs with little or no money left for capital works and that figure is getting worse.
We are also drowning in complex “planning policies” one of which - environment, will require months of paperwork and fees to cut down a single tree - alive or dead. The net result of that policy, like so many others is counterproductive, as farmers are going to poison and pull down as much native vegetation as possible before this latest impost is completed.
Another example concerns aboriginal artefacts; the hoo ha and costs associated with their preservation means that any sane farmer who discovers some will immediately destroy or conceal them. For example the discovery of a “canoe tree” on a property requires the design and creation of a special reserve around it which includes restrictions on what the land can then be used for - all at your expense of course. This happened to a friend three months ago.
As far as GA is concerned, we are blessed with a wonderful privately owned airstrip, but that is under constant threat from NIMBYs and as for council approval to build a much needed new hangar, forget it - even if we could afford the planning fees (heritage, water, aboriginal and environmental plans) not to mention the effing opposition from greenies.
Last edited by Sunfish; 25th Nov 2019 at 05:32.
GA's got no hope of competing with numbers like that - even the most die-hard supporter of aviation has to be realistic, it is dying in this country with little to no hope of recovery.
Anyone want to buy an RV-9?
