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tinpis 6th Nov 2008 01:18

Tindal Wobblies...
 
Whats the story ?
Tindal still closed to Aero Med because of wallabies at night?
Hear they using a helo at $9000 an hour? :uhoh:

FA18s cant be scrambled at night? :hmm:

gadude 6th Nov 2008 01:37

The tindal crew gets flown to darwin on there duty days and back on there days off. And fly out off darwin also at night. Last I heared anyway and that was not very long ago.

You wouldnt want to shoot those wallibies not would we, that be creul and all.:ugh: Not to mention to easy to get rid off a problem.

Don't they fly the F18's at night? If anyone wanted to invade ozzie you would do it in the weekend or on public holydays anyway. Tindal goes pretty quiet on friday avos and don't seem to become active till midday's on monday..

And thats good for the wallybies, gives them a few days uniterupted sleep during the day time:D

tinpis 6th Nov 2008 01:44

Well SOMETHING got rid of the little fellas on East point reserve.Nobody knows what...
Was hundreds now not a one :{

Atlas Shrugged 6th Nov 2008 01:44

Where's the spell check button? :ugh::ugh:

tinpis 6th Nov 2008 01:46

Me syntax is sh!thouse I know, but me spelling usually ok :confused:

gadude 6th Nov 2008 01:54

Atlas if that was meant for me, well the button fell off.
If you want to have a go at my spelling you have to goet in line mate:ok:

I recently worked off a aerodrome were there was a bit off a roo problem. they build a fence but locked a few in:ugh:

Than on an quiet afternoon the local mustering pilot and his roo shooting mate got rid off the problem:D

Jabawocky 6th Nov 2008 05:51

gadude

Please I beg of you send these mates of yours to YCAB.

They could have fun for a couple of days, and maybe half an hour at YRED too!:ok:

Are they any good with Ibis?

J

DanArcher 6th Nov 2008 06:29


Hear they using a helo at $9000 an hour?
well that is for the smallest chopper CHC has in it's northern fleet ;)

they could send the s-92 instead! :eek: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$....

Capt Wally 6th Nov 2008 10:31

Ah come on 'jaba' what's the harm in a bit of wild life to dodge? Give 'em a sporting chance mate:ok: We are after all in their territory especially when airborne:-):)

'AS' the 'dude' loves to show his prowess in spelling & grammar, every time I read one of his posts it makes me feel better for not having gone too far in school:)




CW

gadude 6th Nov 2008 17:38

Capt, it now makes me feel better that I make you feel better about yourself:ok:

Capt Wally 6th Nov 2008 21:40

Ok 'dude' when next I don't feel too flash I'll re read yr post, tnxs:ok:



CW:)

maxgrad 6th Nov 2008 21:51

The RAAF are not doing much apart from the occassional shoot, seems more of a PR exercise than pest control.

They plan to put a wallaby fence up inside the main security fence to stop the things bouncing around on the rwy. Problem is, there will be great holes in it where the taxiways are! That will work......not

The RAAF have guns, the contractors have guns.

The numbers have increased from 800 - 1000 initially to what is now 1700 odd.

The captive breeding program is going quite well!

slow n low 6th Nov 2008 23:41

5/7 RAR, 2 CAV, "exercise".... Job done. :E The Tigers are due for a "gun" campaign as well I believe...
Duck season, wallaby season, duck season FIRE! :uhoh:

Nathan L 8th Nov 2008 01:00

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When i was up there (1yr ago) they did shoot 400 of them which was keep hush but still not enough.
This happened after the the Pearl King Air struck one of them on one of the main legs near VR and con't to Darwin.
On landing that Main legs drag linkage was damaged and the leg rotated rearwards from vertical.......put it out of the air for a few months.
They did have another strike on the nose wheel prior to that also.
So thats why they pull out of Tindal at the time.

I had a few near misses all at night,they were all over the taxiways,runway running left ,right and centre when they heard an engine/s.

maxgrad 8th Nov 2008 01:06

To clarify,
The medivac a/c was hitting wobblies almost every second night, the damage and subsequent emergency LDG were the last draw as far as the drivers were concerned.

tinpis 8th Nov 2008 01:40

This is a job for dat "Wallaby Whisperer" http://www.augk18.dsl.pipex.com/Smileys/cannibal.gif

maxgrad 8th Nov 2008 02:13

What?...use a silencer:E

tinpis 1st Dec 2008 00:36

Its time for...Mr Wobbly..

Jets strike wallabies - Northern Territory News

bushy 1st Dec 2008 01:45

They need "drover"
 
They need "drover" there to herd al the wallabies out of the fenced area. He only needs about six people, and a few days.
But of coures they would first have to spend about two years and many millions of dollars developing a srategic, cost effective, wallaby friendly, and RAAF friendly plan and make sure the RAAF can get some new aircraft out of it.

tinpis 1st Dec 2008 02:10

10-80 carrot drop ... http://www.augk18.dsl.pipex.com/Smileys/death3.gifall gone....:rolleyes:


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