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TANYA PLIBERSEK - LABOR - CQU AVIATION
A flght simulator will form part of a $10 million Labor commitment to help Cairns take off as a world-renowned destination for training pilots. |
Cairns is geographically and meteorologically unsuited as a training base, let alone from the airspace point of view. |
...but someone at CQU knows somebody in the ALP or a union and hey presto.
It's a bit like the $4m funding for marketing and promotion to get more women into aviation. Sometimes I wonder if this "get more women into aviation/mining/whatever is some sort of rort. When was the last time you saw a campaign to get more men into teaching or nursing or hairdressing? |
Cloud couckoo land indeed.! Sunny is right ,
Just a couple of years ago the NQ Aeroclub had to move to YMBA because of ops restrictions and outrageous (privatized) airport owner imposts. YMBA...much better wx, access to controlled airspace and heaps of training area outback AND...opening of YMBA redevelopment @ $25 mil last Thursday !! Just another classic example of..'who you know' for CQU, and ' what (not worth a cracker) pollies don't know. |
Originally Posted by Horatio Leafblower
(Post 10415741)
...but someone at CQU knows somebody in the ALP or a union and hey presto.
It's a bit like the $4m funding for marketing and promotion to get more women into aviation. Sometimes I wonder if this "get more women into aviation/mining/whatever is some sort of rort. When was the last time you saw a campaign to get more men into teaching or nursing or hairdressing? And I guess the reason why women are encouraged to take more interest in aviation is to leave a few spaces as hairdressers for the many men unable to aspire to the skies. kaz |
“Support for the investment?” Like investing in building a BBQ in the crater of a Volcano! I’ve flown out of YMBA and the CP’s advice prior to the start of the wet season was to get your flying done by midday because of the afternoon turbulence. I had a taste of high density altitude there as well, which is going to be a surprise for ab initio students. As for wet season flying I can’t comment but i wouldn’t call Cairns and surroundings a meteorological benign area for students. |
Where did QANTAS choose to set up their training school? Why? Kaz3g How does your “support for the investment” in a “world-renowned destination” foster aviation within Australia for the young men and women that have grown up in Australia? |
MBA ...300 sunny days a year.!
Every region has its topographical induced 'micro climate' ymba has its own.In the rain shadow of the ranges..the mba and tablelands "blue hole" is famous. when the wx is unflyable for lighties at cns, ifl, and ath...ymba is ok. yes, its hot and rough come summer, like everywhere else, and it can get very interesting when storms are about. After they pass in the late arvo..smooth as, after the cooling rain. When a monsoon rain depression sets in non-vfr conditions apply down to the ground. All very educational. |
Sunfish, you really do need to get more fibre in your diet! |
I’m a natural coward but I liked flying at YMBA, it was educational, hauling a C172 off the runway at about 4000’ DA, you actually had to use the controls for once. |
Originally Posted by Sunfish
(Post 10415514)
Cairns is geographically and meteorologically unsuited as a training base, let alone from the airspace point of view. |
The penny WILL drop. They can do all the theory they like in CNS but for the flying bit, the only near and logical option is YMBA.
And maybe they'll even build a big hangar to put all their aircraft in...52 lots of varying sizes now avbl at the Mareeba Airport (Western Precinct) Aviation Park..!! |
ps...dont worry Sunny...I'm a natural coward as well. Thats why I'm still here.
We all have had exciting "lessons" in the aviation business, to dwell on and digest..ie.ffs dont do that again ! The two mantras I tell the younger...1... Know thy aeroplane, intimately. AND... 2 . Know the weather: watch it, study it learn it, to avoid getting done over by it. Aah... the loveliness of clouds. But only from the right perspective ! |
CQU is based in Rockhampton - surely a much better location for a school? |
There seem to be way more airports in Qld north of Townsville than in the whole of Victoria which suggests that there is a lot of people flying around up there. Simulators are independent of weather I find and perhaps the school is focusing on winter time tables for its flying activities. kaz |
FNQ "winter" wx... false premise.
Strong SE trades bang moist maritime air up against the coastal ranges and it becomes u/s for vfr., low cloud and dzl. caught and killed a few. And one lucky young couple who lobbed into a big tree canopy lived to tell the tale ! Inland OK...depending on the strength of the wind, harder the blow , further in the wx gets...once past COE ...clear as a bell to Broome ! Best times, change of the season..April/ May and post Dry Sept/Oct |
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