If Cairns GA disappears who will fly medical assistance,food,legal help etc to the aboriginal communities?
Indeed the cape?
Have not seen to many community airstrips that will fit a 737 or A320?
Also the local pollies when you need them are no where to be found!

:ugh::ugh::ugh::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Mate...no need to guess! :mad:

The pollies are hiding under the bed hoping not to be found!

Ops Normal you would say for this current lot. I can not recall such a large lot of morons ingovernment as we have now on all levels. I think the industrial boom took anyone out of the running. And even in the private business world the number of morons who made it in where years ago they would have not had a resume looked at is alarming.

Time I got off my soap box for a while I think!:oh:

GA is dead, its just the last few twitches still going...


YSBk is an aircraft ghost town now. and after recently ferring my new aircraft from the soon to be closed Caloundra airport, its obvious to me GA is past the point of no return.

on the 6 hr flight to Wollongong, on a saturday, with perfect weather from the sunshine coast to the Illawarra, i heard less the 10 GA aircraft at any/all airports on the way down, a cherokee departed Kempsey for a local flight, 1 C172 doing circuits at Ballina, 1 Tiger moth doing a scenic at Southport, about 5 total between Caboulture and Redcliff, mostly gliders, one cessna on the V1. and about 2 choppers over the harbour. THATS IT!

apart from the usual RPT traffic, the radio was sadly silent for the entire trip... the flying doesnt get better than the weather last weekend, yet the skies were deserted. :{

Dick Smith's version of heaven!

...now if only those lazy RPT pilots would just downgrade to VFR, stop reading their newspapers and look outside like all the far-more-professional VFR PPLs do! :ugh:

AFAIK - and this may not be true, I just heard it through the grapevine - is that one of the YSBK operators (since we were talking about Bankstown as well above), Aerospace Aviation went under partly because Bankstown Airport refused to transfer the lease to a new buyer who was willing to buy Aerospace Aviation at the time.

This was illegal, but the legal costs in forcing Bankstown Airport to transfer the lease made the sale commercially non viable.

So now Bankstown Airport are making zero rent from Aerospace Aviation, since they have gone under. Although this may be part of the master plan of Bankstown Airport, who knows.

After reading about C&H's run in it would be nothing unusual:=

Cairns has only just come into the eyesight of Anna Bligh. Next step is you will have a useless overpriced tunnel (or two)connecting the CBD to the airport.Then you will have hidden speed traps located around the airport perimiter desperately trying to bust rampies fanging it around the tarmac. If you have any valuable assets remaining up north you should hide them, Anna will hunt them down and sell them. Then finally she will allow greedy developers to destroy your mangroves and develop thousands of new dwellings so that you too can receive hundreds of thousands more people into your community, destroy all your infrastructure and create traffic congestion worse than Sydney in peak hour.She did it for Brisbane !
Welcome.

Packing up the GAM hangar this week in CS and the 'notice of demolition' sign gone up :ouch:....

GAM Hanger not to be demolished
 

Seems Cairns Airport had a change of heart and made a 11th hour offer to GAM most likely with their cheque book so that the hangar would stay.

GAM still moving out of hangar but keeping a presence at the airport. Rumour is that a freight company have done a deal with the airport to use the hangar ??

Does not do much for GA though!:ugh:

I had problems trying to get Jandakot Airport Holdings to assign the lease when I bought a building. They tried change a 23 year lease into a 5 year one, then tried other extraordinary tactics to stop the assignment. I won, but it cost me a LOT in legal bills to do what should have been straightforward and was the most unpleasant business experience I have ever had. That was during the "We're going to move Jandakot Airport" fiasco which also made getting finance impossible.

I presume it all ended on Friday, Good luck to all the staff in getting new employment, another era comes to an end. Wonder who will take there place?

Not quite!

Hangar packed up on Friday and most of the staff have found other positions on the 'drome. Flying ops continue thru June using AC500/690/Do228. New office near RFDS opens later in month and ops will continue out of CNS, tho' on a smaller scale. Do228 will be working out of BNE. Essendon ops as usual.

Good luck! :ok:

Toll is the word.

GAM
 

What are GAM minimums?
Is it harder to get a job at Essendon?

I think they'll be a bit fat with pilots for a while. As far as minimums are concerned, depends if you worked in ops or not :}

j3

Anyone have any idea what GAMs likely involvment with toll is going to be, maintenance wise?

How do you mean? GAM have never had anything to do with toll maint wise. I dont think they've ever touched the metro's garretts let alone anything else.

The expansion into using the Do228s for freight was brought about by the poor standard of Jetcrafts Metro fleet. Toll bought Jetcraft out and restructured the runs and aircraft operations as a method to "bid" out the 228s. As a lot of Cadbury employees are finding out, Toll are very good at destroying competition by simply introducing alternatives and pushing down prices and delaying contracts until they're able to buy them out a "reasonable" price.

All fell flat on its face when they realised how tightly strung bank running is and opted not to go ahead with that take over.

Cadbury employees? I was wondering more along the lines of toll engineering serviceing the GAM fleet, and what interest Toll might have with GAM. Heard they might be running a dornier out of the BNE hanger.

Sorry to bring up an old thread but what was the final result with GAM/Reefwatch in Cairns? I notice that the Reefwatch website is still operating and it indicates that they are still going at Cairns GA. Am heading up that way looking for work and trying to find out any local goss on who to go in and say hi to.

Last time I looked (2 months ago) the Cairns hanger was all closed up. Im pretty sure BN base is going strong. Your best dropping into the Essendon hanger to get a better gauge of where they are at for pilot requirements. Good luck.