Makes sense only as a stepping stone. They make it obvious that a new joiner is not a valuable asset, half pay until released to line, a bond for a poorly run type endorsement. Not sure they actually want people to stay long term.

See what happens when you go and drive tractors mate!

You do raise a very valid point, ie. the colour of the annunciators.

My personal discipline in regard to this particular matter was that apart from the Med Bus On (specific to our aeromed aircraft) annunciator, there should be no lights down there before take off. If there was, then I’d missed something.

Any time that I had reversed a switch after a completed checklist, I scrolled the electronic checklist back to the start of that phase and checked the necessary checklist had been completed on lineup.

Yes Don, you are so right. The adult leaves the room and the pea shooters come our, finger paint gets chucked around, the girls light up............. Like when you left the old Plank mate, the place fell apart. The PLTOFFs all went stupid...aaah, flamin 'eck, whaddayado??

Re the colour of annunciator lights issue, wearing my CVDPA director's hat I can't resist pointing out the exquisite irony of colour usage that confuses. Identifying the meaning of lights that happen to be coloured produces the safety outcome, not identifying the colour. Perhaps pilots with some kinds of colour vision deficiency wouldn't be so confused?

In any event, any aviation-related context in which important information is conveyed by colour alone is the product of very bad design, plain and simple.

(And I could be wrong, but I thought all the studies of hypoxia - or maybe it was CO poisoning or both - showed that audible alarms were more likely to be acted upon?)

That's the minimum, end of story. Ambulance Victoria will never compromise on this.

If that’s true, I find it hard to believe they’re getting any applications at all considering how abysmal the wages are (if they are as claimed above).

Worth pointing out this is commercial work. It is a government contract operated for profit by Pel Air to provide a service. So if they aren’t paying enough to retain qualified staff they need to pay more money. They should not now be trying to make out like they’re a charity because they don’t won’t to pay market salary.

its the rex way

Crop duster down near Bourke - Pilot deceased.
 

It is always heartbreaking to hear about accidents in the aviation industry, especially when they result in the loss of a pilot's life. The recent incident involving a crop duster down near Bourke is a stark reminder of the risks that pilots face every time they take to the skies.