nsw fires late update

[catseye]

Subject: Aircraft Status for 17 Jan 2013

Aircraft deployments for tomorrow (17th January, 2013) are as follows:

Total Aircraft (deployed and on standby) = 80
Total Support Assets (refuellers/mixers) = 14
Portable Aviation Command Units = 1 (at Narrabri Airport)

RART

· Cessnock

· Queanbeyan (Hume, ACT RFS helibase)

· Rylestone (NPWS)

· Nepean (NPWS CRAFT)

Aircraft are on STANDBY at:

· Bankstown (including 1x Aircrane)

· Camden

· Cessnock

· Queanbeyan/Canberra (Hume, ACT RFS helibase)

· Rylestone

· Nepean

· Griffith

· Albury

· Wagga (including 1x Aircrane)

· Deniliquin

· Cooma

· Cowra

· Bombala

· Bathurst

· Tumut

[mickjoebill]

Skycrane out of action

Elvis the Victorian skycrane is reported as being out of action "in a paddock", with an hydraulic problem.
Presumably they couldn't make a precautionary landing at an airfield?

Mickjoebill

[Lucerne]

"Elvis" (HT-735) experienced a high transmission temperature approximately 10 miles north of Tamworth Airport. On first discovery of this the crew decided to put down in an adjacent paddock. Subsequent inspection found that the transmission needed replacing.

I think it was a good idea for them not to fly the 10 miles back to Tamworth Airport.