CHC Port Keats
Anybody get fired yet? Not that I would expect a pilot employed by Bristow or CHC to ever get sacked. Different for a small operator- any suspicion that you're going to cost the company more that you can earn and you'd be gone. Two pilots taxiing into a pole the size of the Empire State building in broad daylight and the small operators I've worked for would have difficulty finding the confidence to bet the survival of their company on them again.
Curious how other small operators would view it. I've seen pilots let go for far less. Just wondering if that's just a Canadian thing and reflective of very tight operating margins and small 2-4 helicopter outfits.
Curious how other small operators would view it. I've seen pilots let go for far less. Just wondering if that's just a Canadian thing and reflective of very tight operating margins and small 2-4 helicopter outfits.
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The e-mail from CHC was removed before I got to see it so dont know if anyone was hurt. Were there any injuries? (hopefully not but by the looks of it there must be at least severe whip lash).
Any comment on the support afforded by the local emergency services / air ambulance - was it needed??
Any comment on the support afforded by the local emergency services / air ambulance - was it needed??
Whats the bet the fuselage suddenly becomes a sacred site?
"Hey whiteman lawyer from CHC , me, the missus, me kids and camp dog's live here now. The only thing missus don't like is those noisy f%cken Metros that come and go. Yeah could do something about the airconditioning unit, she no workey and soon the wet season will be upon us, beer will get hot and dog's will get bit a smelly, and we don't want the new rescidence to be moved off the Port Keats beautiful homes list!"
How many casks, flaggons, dogs can one get in a mangled Super Puma fuselage?
Glad to see that no one was killed or injured.
"Hey whiteman lawyer from CHC , me, the missus, me kids and camp dog's live here now. The only thing missus don't like is those noisy f%cken Metros that come and go. Yeah could do something about the airconditioning unit, she no workey and soon the wet season will be upon us, beer will get hot and dog's will get bit a smelly, and we don't want the new rescidence to be moved off the Port Keats beautiful homes list!"
How many casks, flaggons, dogs can one get in a mangled Super Puma fuselage?
Glad to see that no one was killed or injured.
But, pretty much to be expected based on your other drivel I suppose.
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I would venture the argument that Brian in particular but including the other contributors, are more in touch with the reality of outback humour than some self styled correctness champions, in this topic appear to be.
There's nothing worse than someone showing how obsessed they are by their own sense of self worth, forcing a "holier than thou" position around people who have proved their own CDF in real life.
Perhaps it would be more correct to start sledging the unfortunates who tipped over the clunker in the pics. I guess that's what some would prefer.
P.S. FA - 18 better tuck yourself in and zip up your zoom bag. Your personality is showing.
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There's nothing worse than someone showing how obsessed they are by their own sense of self worth, forcing a "holier than thou" position around people who have proved their own CDF in real life.
Perhaps it would be more correct to start sledging the unfortunates who tipped over the clunker in the pics. I guess that's what some would prefer.
P.S. FA - 18 better tuck yourself in and zip up your zoom bag. Your personality is showing.
With all due respect
- DD
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FA - 18 better tuck yourself in and zip up your zoom bag. Your personality is showing.
reminds me a bit of a real life story about a Judges bag handler on the occasion of the first outback native title claim back in the early seventies. The local stock inspectors all of whom used own big -often savage- blue heeler cattle dogs, had been delegated to "look after" the various parties legal representatives and of course big boss number one judge.
picture the early morning, stockie cooking brekky and yarning on with judge who's always awake
before his young assistant. young bag handler is watching said dog attend to his early morning ablutions, which always involves a bit of 'well evidenced self indulgence', so to speak.
without thinking young fella says, "I wish I could do that."
without blinking stockie remarks, "yer better pat him first 'e moight bite."
Judge nearly wets himself.
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...holier than thou...
...myopic...
Riiiight... Listen, I've done my time in the "outback" and that time only served to reinforced my views.
My point is, if it is "outback banter" like you claim, then let's keep it in the outback, an not air such views on an apparently unmoderated global forum?
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FA18- to take the piss is surely great characteristic of Australians. Every little comment doesn't have to go thru to the sensors and be politically correct (that of course being a contradiction in terms). Chill out on the holier than thou crap. And yeh I've been to Wadeye, Port Keats or whatever we call it now. err lovely place.. If you take offence simply do not read it. This is not a country that should have opinion written or spoken suppressed- especially in fun.. whatever our polictical 'masters' tell us. The black fellas loved it when Kevin Bloody Wilson sang Livein next door to Alan or should we burn him at the stake also..
Move on son.. take a breath save a gay whale or something worthwhile.
Move on son.. take a breath save a gay whale or something worthwhile.
Topend,
I suspect that joke is an urban myth - an almost identical punchline appears in a Jasper Carrot sketch from about 30 years ago. Unless, of course, he stole the joke...
Talking of Jasper, on seeing this accident and the photos, I was immediately reminded of his 'car insurance claims' sketch - maybe the incident report will have some similarities with these claims:
I suspect that joke is an urban myth - an almost identical punchline appears in a Jasper Carrot sketch from about 30 years ago. Unless, of course, he stole the joke...
Talking of Jasper, on seeing this accident and the photos, I was immediately reminded of his 'car insurance claims' sketch - maybe the incident report will have some similarities with these claims:
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an apparently unmoderated global forum
Note to Mods re Mods: All tongue very firmly pressed.
I've done my time in the "outback"
pretty much to be expected based on your other drivel I suppose
it appears you've read more Biggles than I have
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I suspect that joke is an urban myth
Doc was a great stockie of the old school when the Federal AIB ran matters of animal health. But a lousy shot or with terrible eyesight, as I found one day when I did the first BTEC shoot out with him with his old thirty ought six, Mediocre on the first shot and lousy there after, even from six feet off the end of the barrell.
But breasting the bar at the Old Toppy he still holds the record for an on the slack line of two bob bits. Incredible.
Speaking of pubs, I've enjoyed the company of other pi**pots at the Tindal Officers mess a few times years ago too. Saw a 'blackfella' in there one night with a set of buffalo horns over his shoulder still dripping blood.
Actually he had jumped at the chance seeing as how I had got caught short for my giftie for the xmas tree raffle and that was the last animal we found that day and it had a decent set of horns so I claimed them for the purpose. The rest was history, as was the little waffie who 'somehow' managed to draw the winning ticket for them. good days.
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You've got ot admit tho' it's not every day you see a perfectly serviceable and expensive helicopter demolished in such stupid manner in the middle of one of OZ's most notorious aboriginal communities.
I mean far better to do it at the Yarra river helipad, be much easier to come up with some plausible excuse. - ????
Then some other clown sticks his head above the parapet to get it shot at.
Two ducks in the one gallery, breaks the boredom quite some.
I mean far better to do it at the Yarra river helipad, be much easier to come up with some plausible excuse. - ????
Then some other clown sticks his head above the parapet to get it shot at.
Two ducks in the one gallery, breaks the boredom quite some.
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Abba, did you get bored as well and go off site?
Let's bring it back on topic and gloat at those poor guys who just did what others are about to.
For what it's worth.
Let's bring it back on topic and gloat at those poor guys who just did what others are about to.
For what it's worth.