Missing light aircraft in the NT
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A mix of could not get a job elsewhere or chasing quick hours.
Mostly.
They knew they got a better $ for a high risk.
When you know your at risk you make different decisions. There you get a ramp check (lol) no real drama - here forget your ASIC or 20 kg of extra fuel (for a diversion) and get caught your in BIG SHyT.
One country you could make things work, the other they would rather you die keeping legal.
Special VFR or even many VFR flight plans are just to be "legal".
Mostly.
They knew they got a better $ for a high risk.
When you know your at risk you make different decisions. There you get a ramp check (lol) no real drama - here forget your ASIC or 20 kg of extra fuel (for a diversion) and get caught your in BIG SHyT.
One country you could make things work, the other they would rather you die keeping legal.
Special VFR or even many VFR flight plans are just to be "legal".
Rules won’t save anyone from death or anything less serious. Things that will is raw hardcore single pilot experience in the worst environment in the world to fly, let alone live for any long period of time.
PNG provided that for me and I can attest that I’ve got more than 9 lives! If anyone has had a windscreen full of rain forest whilst on approach very close to the ground in marginal weather conditions and survived, they will know what I mean.
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Induction to PNG flying was generally quite rigorous, with route endorsements and in-country experience required before being turned loose on the really challenging airstrips. Considering the hostile environment and hours flown in its heyday, PNG had quite a remarkable safety record.
On an hours flown basis it would be interesting to compare it with today’s GA in Australia.
Nowadays, airline HR selection people with no hands-on flying time value wombats and similarly concocted aptitude tests. Times change.
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If anyone has had a windscreen full of rain forest whilst on approach very close to the ground in marginal weather conditions and survived, they will know what I mean.
Induction to PNG flying was generally quite rigorous, with route endorsements and in-country experience required before being turned loose on the really challenging airstrips. Considering the hostile environment and hours flown in its heyday, PNG had quite a remarkable safety record.
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Would the modern airline HR numpty, know anything about PNG?
Two Fifths of Three Eighths of SFA would be my guess!
And if the Chuckling Chimbu was still gracing these pages, I suspect he would tell me that I was being somewhat generous in my estimation.
How does one living in aviation in the Top End these days do a Risk Assessment (knowing the dangers of the Wet Season)?
Some company's require previous Wet Season experience as a mitigation point - so it is a real hazard not a perceived hazard.
Some company's require previous Wet Season experience as a mitigation point - so it is a real hazard not a perceived hazard.
- Northern Territory - The offence of industrial manslaughter came into effect in the NT on 1 February 2020. A PCBU or an officer of a PCBU commits industrial manslaughter if they intentionally engage in conduct which breaches a health and safety duty and causes the death of an individual to whom the health and safety duty was owed. The PCBU or officer must also be reckless or negligent about the conduct breaching the health and safety duty and causing the death of that individual. The maximum penalty is imprisonment for life for an individual and fines of $10.2 million for companies.
The section of the report re the prop states: "The damage signatures indicated that the engine was likely to have been driving the propeller with significant power when the aircraft collided with terrain."
I disagree, that prop does not have forward bending of the tips and instead looks like it hit at idle power.
I disagree, that prop does not have forward bending of the tips and instead looks like it hit at idle power.
Which column of my logbook do I log this so called “wet season time” in?
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