Birdsville Races 2023
Without resorting to handpicked and sorted stats it's obvious GA is only a small percentage of what it used to be. In the bush you are lucky to see any sign aircraft of any sort apart from vapour trails. It's gone from every town airstrip having training and charter, most farmers having 182's and thriving maintenance shops to barren rural airstrips. RAA is the only hope but CASA is working to destroy that too.
With GA being a small percentage of what once was then it stands to reason any events will correspondingly be down the same percentage. Then you have event organisers thinking they will cash in compounding the non participation.
GA exists in spite of CASA not because of it.
With GA being a small percentage of what once was then it stands to reason any events will correspondingly be down the same percentage. Then you have event organisers thinking they will cash in compounding the non participation.
GA exists in spite of CASA not because of it.
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I count myself lucky to have flown into Birdsville for the races, camping under the wing, having way too many beers in a packed street outside the pub, actually going to the races, staying for about 30 mins then heading straight back to the pub.
From what I've read about it, its been destroyed for people flying in by the local council and the usual OHS bull**** as an excuse to rape people of their hard earned, not by the destruction of GA.
From what I've read about it, its been destroyed for people flying in by the local council and the usual OHS bull**** as an excuse to rape people of their hard earned, not by the destruction of GA.
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Cedrik,
I hear you loud and clear. I have to agree. CASA should feel proud that they have costed and regulated out of existence all those flying schools, charter businesses and maintenance business that we used to see at all most every country airports.
Now all we see are locked and deserted hangers and dusty runways.
R
I hear you loud and clear. I have to agree. CASA should feel proud that they have costed and regulated out of existence all those flying schools, charter businesses and maintenance business that we used to see at all most every country airports.
Now all we see are locked and deserted hangers and dusty runways.
R
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Think I was too...saw a guy do the dance of the flaming R-soles on the roof of the pub. Went to Brophy's tent, endured a dust storm and slept under the wing of a Cherokee six...might have been '98 or '97 not sure. Too lazy to fish out the log book.
Hired an HD video camera and filmed the entire trip from Perth.
A hoot with three other mates, one of which got his licence the day before departure - only by taking a cake to the CASA crew at Jandakot.
Hired an HD video camera and filmed the entire trip from Perth.
A hoot with three other mates, one of which got his licence the day before departure - only by taking a cake to the CASA crew at Jandakot.
1994 I think! Foggy memory, little like my memory of which tent I was meant to be in 🤣.
