Landing at Airports
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From: Australia
Can an instructor comment on the new situation where a low time r22 student pilot may have to hover taxi downwind from Heliflight to the main pad to depart in the 29 direction. Is this riskier than departing from the northern windsock?
Also what are the risks involved in hover taxiing a r22 near a Citation X with the engines going ? That's what will be happening
Also the notam clearly states "All helicopter operations confined to runways or marked HLS only"
Surely this means you can't hover or air transit to or from the pads or runways.
Looks completely half baked and incompetently introduced to me. Anyone know who was responsible at CASA and what their rotary wing experience is?
A letter i sited from the manager of the owner of the airport said the changes were to address problems to the west and north west. Why then have approaches and departures to the east been changed?
Also why did CASA not object to the Toll building immediately adjacent to the Main pad?
Or in that case was the building wanted by the airport owner and therefore no objection .
Lastly has any Heli operator spoken to the alleged complainant?
I have flown helicopters in and out of BK for 30 years and do so two or three times a week and did not know about this change or the complaint until the tower (prematurely ) told me of it . So much for the requirement of genuine consultation I introduced as CASA Chairman- then again that's probably been removed!.
I wonder if there are better ways of solving the problem!
Also what are the risks involved in hover taxiing a r22 near a Citation X with the engines going ? That's what will be happening
Also the notam clearly states "All helicopter operations confined to runways or marked HLS only"
Surely this means you can't hover or air transit to or from the pads or runways.
Looks completely half baked and incompetently introduced to me. Anyone know who was responsible at CASA and what their rotary wing experience is?
A letter i sited from the manager of the owner of the airport said the changes were to address problems to the west and north west. Why then have approaches and departures to the east been changed?
Also why did CASA not object to the Toll building immediately adjacent to the Main pad?
Or in that case was the building wanted by the airport owner and therefore no objection .
Lastly has any Heli operator spoken to the alleged complainant?
I have flown helicopters in and out of BK for 30 years and do so two or three times a week and did not know about this change or the complaint until the tower (prematurely ) told me of it . So much for the requirement of genuine consultation I introduced as CASA Chairman- then again that's probably been removed!.
I wonder if there are better ways of solving the problem!
Last edited by Dick Smith; 3rd June 2012 at 05:37.
