RFG

Bit of imagination required to see Jetstar's normal scheduled arrivals and departures as a "marketing coup".

They are operating in/out of Avalon today and not too many people will see those movements. Are they then to be regarded as a 'marketing flop'?

tipsy
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I got the impression it was business as usual for Jetstar - they surely would have scheduled their newer A320s for all movements in and out of Avalon for the public days if they were treating it as a marketing coup and not the tired old white 717s we saw for some movements

grusome - no great foresight or fore-telling abilities, old son, just 22 years RAF servoce and another 20 civilian here in Oz. I was hoping against hope for SOME RAF input, but it was no more than that, blind Freddie could have foretold the scenario with less experience of the MoD(UK) than I.
As an aside, do you have any idea why the Nimrod was so subdued? No confidence- busting requested, just curious.

I've had a week to reconsider, and have come to the conclusion that, given my innate inability to ignore noisy aeroplanes, I will probably be there again in 2007! Sad, isn't it!!

As for volunteering, I did for the first Show, spent six days there as a Ground Controller, Military Aircraft, but haven't offerred since primarily 'cos I was a shift-worker as well as being in need of "brownie-points" with SWMBO most of the time. Add to that the difficulty of getting there, and back, from near YMMB airfield, and you may understand why. Nowadays, my age might militate against any great commitment, or does age not have any place in the deliberations of the organisers?

Overall, I enjoyed the Trade show more than the flying demos, with a couple of notable exceptions, but I believe that the airspace and display-line restrictions placed on the Show by nameless authorities contribute to that in no small way. Could today's litigious societal tendencies contribute to those, I wonder?

Kind regards,

TheNightOwl.

:ok:

Ah for the "Good old Days"

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-...27/llaeros.jpg

Night Owl,

See my PM.

Thanks for your previous service. Age plays a part only so far as the individual wants it to, except that in the very highly stressed jobs there is a duty of care issue once people get into the heart attack zone - loosely defined as over about 63, based on experience in recent years!

Display line restrictions haven't changed much over the last three shows, but airspace has changed dramatically. WRT the litigious aspects, I would take the view that most of recent change in the regulatory sense is more aligned with user-pays than with the tendency to sue - in this country, anyway. However, we must always have in mind the consequences of lack of care!

Cheers
Gru

Not Missed an Avalon Airshow
 

:O I love anything that flys. Have been an aircraft nut all my life! I have visited every airfield anywhere I have visited. Always look skyward at anything that flys.

I now have my PPL and flew into YMAV in an aircraft that was left there on display. In Thursday AM, Out Mon AM.

I was disapointed with the airshow too.

Loved the aerobatic Su. display.

Food was outrageous! Flight display was very predictable. Overall a lack of depth to the number and type of aircraft on display and flying.

I think I will volunteer next Avalon Airshow so I can give back more to the venture.

I manned a tent for my Aeroclub. Attended Thurs, Fri & Sat.

I too believe things are too negative in GA. The costs are so prohibitative. Try hiring a 172 to take the wife away for a weekend somewhere nice. Ready to squwander $500-1000?

I still love to fly. Members at my aero club love to stir me about flights YBRS - YMMB, or circuits but it is all I can afford.

Pall


Glad to see you too liked the amazing display by the SU and the gifted pilot!!!

Great to see good constuctive comments, will see you all at the next one (yeah I know most said no more) but like all others you forget the bad and remember the good for 2007