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Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
6th May 2024, 02:01
Replies: 26
Views: 6,773
Posted By MickG0105

So QF having problems with -EBA; a portent of...

So QF having problems with -EBA; a portent of things to come perhaps.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
5th May 2024, 23:41
Replies: 4
Views: 1,435
Posted By PiperCameron

You're kidding, right?!? (a) if exactly the same...

You're kidding, right?!? (a) if exactly the same accident happened to the same aircraft with numbers instead of letters on the side the ATSB wouldn't have investigated at all and (b) if the pilot...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
5th May 2024, 03:28
Replies: 102
Views: 30,878
Posted By Clare Prop

The onus is on them (the aerodrome/ Airservices)...

The onus is on them (the aerodrome/ Airservices) to prove that you did land there, not on us to prove that we didn't.

I regularly get landing fees for places where it would be impossible for my...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
3rd May 2024, 22:04
Replies: 166
Views: 59,819
Posted By MickG0105

Most of the factors you've listed in parentheses...

Most of the factors you've listed in parentheses describe a fundamentally different business model to their regional-regional, low-cost, jet model; you're essentially saying that their business model...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
3rd May 2024, 09:18
Replies: 166
Views: 59,819
Posted By MickG0105

Leasing companies are generally let's just say...

Leasing companies are generally let's just say "challenging" to deal with but they are rarely capricious. Lessors just do not go to the lengths of terminating a lease and repossessing aircraft on a...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
2nd May 2024, 03:19
Replies: 12
Views: 3,580
Posted By Mach E Avelli

Aviation pretenders with misleading websites?...

Aviation pretenders with misleading websites? Quelle surprise!
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
2nd May 2024, 00:48
Replies: 12
Views: 3,580
Posted By Mach E Avelli

Alternative translation: “This is a fishing...

Alternative translation: “This is a fishing expedition to see how many pilots are desperate enough to work for us. From the degree of desperation we will be able to determine how little we need to...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
1st May 2024, 14:26
Replies: 15
Views: 1,546
Posted By eckhard

Because 22-18=4 The wind is GUSTING from 18...

Because 22-18=4

The wind is GUSTING from 18 to 22 knots.
the GUST is 4 knots.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
1st May 2024, 05:26
Replies: 39
Views: 8,951
Posted By we_were_inverted

Strong rumour here in Canberra is that Alan Joyce...

Strong rumour here in Canberra is that Alan Joyce has been approached for the role.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
1st May 2024, 04:03
Replies: 2,290
Views: 246,670
Posted By 10JQKA

TIBA

Airservices CEO UFN.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
30th Apr 2024, 22:32
Replies: 166
Views: 59,819
Posted By ozbiggles

That is the Australian way. Get something that...

That is the Australian way. Get something that works and pays for itself, employs thousands of people and get the government involved to hobble it. When people pay more to park their cars at an...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
29th Apr 2024, 00:48
Replies: 100
Views: 32,265
Posted By No upgrade

Because you’re a bunch of suckers that will sign...

Because you’re a bunch of suckers that will sign anything for a quick cash bonus.


Management must be quaking in their boots at the thought of you rolling out the red tie brigade.


Greed,...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
27th Apr 2024, 02:59
Replies: 48
Views: 24,051
Posted By Pearly White

All of which demonstrates why AI won't be...

All of which demonstrates why AI won't be replacing humans anytime soon.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
25th Apr 2024, 10:12
Replies: 13
Views: 3,017
Posted By Pinky the pilot

Devil Whilst I agree that such a flypast is most...

Whilst I agree that such a flypast is most impressive; What I'd really like to see, AND hear, would be a flypast by an Avro Lancaster, accompanied by a Spitfire, Hurricane, Mustang and a DH Mosquito!...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
24th Apr 2024, 05:41
Replies: 116
Views: 51,661
Posted By MalcolmReynolds

Never pay in advance. EVER! Pay for the flying...

Never pay in advance. EVER! Pay for the flying you do each day as you do it.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
20th Apr 2024, 09:01
Replies: 545
Views: 130,828
Posted By MickG0105

Don't take the commentary personally. The...

Don't take the commentary personally.

The problem with this particular topic is that essentially every item of evidence, even what many would objectively categorise as "hard evidence", can be...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
20th Apr 2024, 07:09
Replies: 1,023
Views: 403,934
Posted By MickG0105

I wouldn't be laying too much at the feet of the...

I wouldn't be laying too much at the feet of the Financial Viability Assessment component of the AOC process. While I would expect that the expenses-side of the sheet would be fairly accurate, the...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
20th Apr 2024, 05:31
Replies: 116
Views: 51,661
Posted By Al E. Vator

Have noticed at Wellcamp and also Wagga,...

Have noticed at Wellcamp and also Wagga, self-appointed air traffic controllers (senior instructors?) hopping on the radio and ‘directing’ aircraft to go here and there and do this and that.
...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
20th Apr 2024, 05:28
Replies: 6
Views: 2,734
Posted By RollThroughApproved

Latest rumour from the Moranbah refueler is that...

Latest rumour from the Moranbah refueler is that the assessment day is about to be replaced with an ECG test.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
19th Apr 2024, 12:36
Replies: 13
Views: 3,743
Posted By FloppsyTopsy

The sandy clearing referred to at Cabarita is an...

The sandy clearing referred to at Cabarita is an old disused army training strip once used for caribou; most of the entire area was fairly treeless until after the 70's.

Aviation arrived in the...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
19th Apr 2024, 06:24
Replies: 8
Views: 1,763
Posted By Chronic Snoozer

Worthy of Utopia. By making the normally...

Worthy of Utopia. By making the normally controlled airspace TIBA "there is an extra layer of safety".
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
14th Apr 2024, 00:30
Replies: 320
Views: 163,869
Posted By Chronic Snoozer

You forgot "fewer" days off not "less". :cool: ...

You forgot "fewer" days off not "less". :cool:

If pilots can't win the negotiation, at least be grammatically correct. :}
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
10th Apr 2024, 06:24
Replies: 11
Views: 1,867
Posted By Squawk7700

Dick Smith invests in more airport weather cameras in April 2024 !

14 months on from Dick Smith's welcome donation of $10,000 towards weather cameras in 2023, we are now partnering to do it all again this year with yet another donation!

Last year we got around 26...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
8th Apr 2024, 05:23
Replies: 53
Views: 21,763
Posted By Icarus2001

Do you have to move the thrust levers a...

Do you have to move the thrust levers a particular way so that the FADEC understands? :ooh:​​​​​​​
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
7th Apr 2024, 07:21
Replies: 36
Views: 3,552
Posted By Stuart Sutcliffe

To be pedantically correct, the Beatles song 'A...

To be pedantically correct, the Beatles song 'A Day in the Life' mentioned there were "4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire". From that grew the line about then knowing how many holes might fill the...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
3rd Apr 2024, 10:12
Replies: 1,549
Views: 536,324
Posted By prickly

No , it wasn't the AFAP, it was James Strong,...

No , it wasn't the AFAP, it was James Strong, Peter Abeles and the revengeful Bob Hawke, along with a gaggle of useful idiots.
Hawke set out long before 1989 to bring down the AFAP because of its...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
3rd Apr 2024, 03:59
Replies: 1,549
Views: 536,324
Posted By das Uber Soldat

I feel like we should definitely focus on...

I feel like we should definitely focus on infighting between AFAP and AIPA. This is surely the path to future financial success.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
1st Apr 2024, 03:46
Replies: 63
Views: 19,529
Posted By rodney rude

Hook up that caravan Delta! The highway awaits.

Hook up that caravan Delta! The highway awaits.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
29th Mar 2024, 13:29
Replies: 55
Views: 13,981
Posted By Duck Pilot

Hook line and sinker, didn’t take long! ...

Hook line and sinker, didn’t take long!

Clearly demonstrates the level of in experience within the aviation industry at the moment!
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
29th Mar 2024, 02:33
Replies: 55
Views: 13,981
Posted By Squawk7700

It’s fairly safe to be in it, but there’s a...

It’s fairly safe to be in it, but there’s a dead-man’s curve below about 1,000ft for the aircraft to gain flying speed after being dropped off.
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
29th Mar 2024, 01:11
Replies: 55
Views: 13,981
Posted By Duck Pilot

The chute prevents the requirement to have a...

The chute prevents the requirement to have a pilot in the aircraft to keep it straight and level. Disadvantage is that if the aircraft is jettisoned from the helicopter it will pretty much plummet to...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
28th Mar 2024, 04:47
Replies: 68
Views: 10,364
Posted By Squawk7700

Another set of cameras up and running thanks to a...

Another set of cameras up and running thanks to a donation of 2 cameras compliments of Dick Smith and with generous assistance from members of a local flying club (I haven't asked for their...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
27th Mar 2024, 19:54
Replies: 11
Views: 2,292
Posted By compressor stall

SATCO TIBA is the norm over places with poorly...

SATCO
TIBA is the norm over places with poorly managed or underfunded third world aviation infrastructure. Examples being Somalia, and other dodgy parts of Africa, a square of the Pacific that’s...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
27th Mar 2024, 11:59
Replies: 11
Views: 2,292
Posted By DirectAnywhere

Here’s the most recent Airservices map. ...

Here’s the most recent Airservices map.

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1290x1260/img_6613_63cd6535f64993da190ab29a8664040973932cb9.jpeg
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
18th Mar 2024, 12:02
Replies: 227
Views: 102,741
Posted By Lookleft

For the benefit of the uneducated among us, I...

For the benefit of the uneducated among us, I shall now translate. ME is trying to demonstrate with all that gumph that the 737 Max is a much maligned product from an outstanding company whose main...
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