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If you are currently looking for a position as flight crew, it's very simple! Just apply.!!
You can always say no later on; but once the application process closes, it's too late.

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Director Safety and Quality actually retired to drive his Winnebago around the State and Oz. Change of management probably coming as the PSBA being broken up with the helo ops going to Polair.

Where did you get that info? Genuine question, not a sh!t stir. PM me if sensitive. Ex-POLAIR.

Highly unlikely that polair will merge with qgs

I don't think they can hire until the management change after 31 October?

For a start, because of the nature of the flying, operating under any type of an AOC or having a commercial operator involved will never work unless the pilot ranks are increased by a factor of at least four.

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I dunno about that...the Labor Pollies seem to like to get their backsides on the Govt Hawker 850 leather seats (Ironic since they slammed Joh BJ for the Hawker they labeled the “JOH JET” when he was around).

Swapped it out for a Westwind when Labor took power from Joh, but must have realised there was more bragging rights with a Hawker than a Westwind so swapped the swapped Westwind back for a Hawker. (Did that one have gold taps too?).

The Police Aviation side always seemed to be the poor (...super poor?) cousins to the Govt Aviation side.....Crime don’t pay I suppose, especially If you are writing the cheque and you could swan around in a very nice modern Hawker 850 XP (..ps..don’t forget to tell the passengers to hide the wine bottles, could be a little embarrassing to revisit “winegate” during the election.)

Is the Police Citation still working?..It always seemed busy years ago...a rego check shows it at 21 years vs the Hawker at 14 years...further proof that crime don’t pay.

I think the Citation is against a fence or in the hangar corner out of engine hours.

To run the Airwing commercially 601 is correct, need more pilots to cover 24/7.

They had a ex CASA chap create a Ops Manual ect to enable an AOC. Got as far as casa saying they are ready to give it a tick to start but Airwing ( QGA ) decided to let it rest. Management pilots came and went, some got as far as casa approval, some were taxpayer endorsed on Hawker then left, some endorsed on Citation then it ran out of engine time. One would guess the hourly cost to the taxpayer must be a lot higher these days. Maybe Lifeflight should take it over

Informative post Merle2.

Question....If the Citation IS out of action, and as it is a now a combined Air Unit under the QGAir Banner, if say an urgent Police Callout X BNE was needed to the regions would the Hawker be used, or is that left for ministerial duties?

Ministerial duties used to be near the bottom of the pile. Could have changed in the last 20 years.
Does a esky wanting to be picked up in Auckland still have it over a pollie in Wepia?.

Or a bottle of wine at Lockhart River...

The Hawker or King Air are used on police work as required and yes the transplant flights have highest priority.

As far as I know, no one ever tested the contents of the bottle - could have been water for all we know.

Like that for 30 years.

Yep Citation sold, QPS get to use the KingAir at times but Hawker is kept for others. Technically esky still has priority over pollies.

the dictators, sorry Managers, have own interests in mind. Very sad existence for crew. Morale is through the floor.

Oh by the way. How did they get an AOC with a HOFO that is not rated on anything that they have? How?

They haven’t progressed to activating the AOC as they delayed even though casa was ready to push button.
Management pilots ( advertised as Chief Pilot but no approval so really just another pilot at that point ) come and go. You can have a AOC with the CP not endorsed if you nominate a type expert on staff ( as I understand it ). Just to add for a oddity the “CP” gets less pay than a line pilot as far as I’m aware. Interesting setup.

So have they filled all the positions that were advertised recently?