Thanks also from me Jaba.

The thought crossed my mind that he was ex RAN. However, as soon as I spot a clanger like that in a story I just stop reading it!

QueenAir engines
 

I bet the straight 65 is VH-FDV. The bastard probably has my old brand new engines out of my old Queenie.....:{

Nope !! Original engines as purchased - one bulk stripped by Suncoast Aero Engines - and a good job they did too !!
I believe the engines from yours ended up with the (then) local LAME school.
Lol - i was unsuccessful in trying to buy them :{

Pilot BS in court today re drug importation and manufacturing. :eek:
Described in court as a "flight risk".

There are fools - and then there are complete idiots.

I mean to say - producing $300K in folding notes for a property deposit, isn't going to be noticed by anyone, is it?? :rolleyes:

Pilot attempts property purchase with $300K in cash

Amazing but imagine what goes on behind the scenes that we don't find.
Organized crime is just that organized & I bet only a fraction gets brought to the attention of the authorities.
These people maybe idiots but they are not fools, well fools in the eyes of law abiding citizens that is but in amongst their own corrupt society they are very clever.


Wmk2

SMS777 - not FWG you are referring to is it?

Hi Jamair,
Yes, you are correct. FDV is the straight tail one. FWG is the one being used for meat bombing at Caloundra if it's still in action.
Cheers...:ok:

FWG was broken up a few years back.

The mighty FDV is, however, still active (heard/seen over my house yesterday).

Not passing the smell test…… :confused:

I'm with Jabba!

He is a Drug Peddler! Lucky we don't have the death penalty you poor excuse for a father!
He deserves more time in the Pokey having his "Dangly Bits" played with by the Prison Heavy!

DB

…But does he lose his pilots licence?

Research conducted by a former trial lawyer, now a NSW Judge, revealed that 1 in 4 male prisoners is sexually assaulted (raped) while serving his sentence. They are the young, the weak, the feminine, the old...those over whom male power and control can be imposed.

The damage this does to those individuals and, by extension the rest of society when both perpetrator and abused are eventually released is huge.

Not the sort of thing a civilised society should tolerate nor one that should be encouraged even in jest in my view.

Kaz

Very well said.

They should think about that before embarking on a crime that will have the obvious consequences. :=

"....But does he lose his pilots license?"
No, he will not....but what's the use if he won't get an ASIC due to criminal conviction on his record. He won't be flying commercially for a while, me thinks.

Not sure if he's a LAME but he has owned a maintenance shop in the past, and in my dealings with him he was very concerned about providing good customer service and value for money which is more than you can say for some. :ugh:

I imagine that he doesn't hold a current medical if his cancer status is as reported. I don't know if he breached any civil aviation laws, and I dunno if CASA could get their act together sufficiently to prove it if he did.

This trial was related to the drugs activities, which are not outlawed by the CAA, CARs or CASRs, so cancellation of civil aviation privileges will not be a direct action available to the court. As others have said, the criminal conviction will slow down ASICs and handicap (but not kill) a commercial flying career.

Without passing comment on the crime or the (surprisingly short) sentence, I feel sorry for Bernie and his family. He is a nice guy. :(

Dangly bits, you're a tool, and you're also advocating, nay suggesting, that a crime take place. This voids any protection you have for your anonymity on this forum, and could possibly be a criminal offence in itself.

Bernie may have been misguided, I know he was desperately trying to find ways to generate more cash, but he is not a bad guy.

I had business dealings with him over a few years and found that he was always relatively honest and upfront. He lived in a modest home and certainly never made ostentatious displays of wealth or displayed any of the behaviors that you would ordinarily associate with criminals. He's currently bailed pending appeal, and hopefully, as a small fish, he doesn't get too long. I have no doubt he'll be back in the game at some stage, and he'll still be more honest than many of the players in this industry in Australia.

Ex-FSO Griffo,
Tait's aeroplane was a 560E, not a Shrike, after years of being an instructional airframe at Padstow TAFE, what is left is at Australian Aviation Museum, Bankstown.
Tootle pip!!