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Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
5th Nov 2008, 09:19
Replies: 1,216
Views: 192,321
Posted By Bill Woodfull

8.47% pay hike for continuing to reduce a proud...

8.47% pay hike for continuing to reduce a proud Air Navigation provider to Global ATC joke.

If you get 8.47% for the atrophy of the company, what for being a licence holding seperator thats...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
4th Oct 2008, 12:19
Replies: 1,216
Views: 192,321
Posted By Bill Woodfull

That golden! ROFLMAO. "Captain! Icebergs on...

That golden! ROFLMAO.

"Captain! Icebergs on the horizon" "Flank speed son, I know my way around here".

I'm trying to sell dehyd popcorn on the internet...

We have our baggy green boys...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
4th Oct 2008, 11:56
Replies: 1,216
Views: 192,321
Posted By Bill Woodfull

LapSap, What are you on about? I'm...

LapSap,

What are you on about?

I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed and am a mere Approach wacko but the IRC thing was Sydney and surrounding airspace. What has regional services got to do...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
29th Sep 2008, 03:20
Replies: 87
Views: 11,997
Posted By Bill Woodfull

Why are we hedging FOREX? We are neither an...

Why are we hedging FOREX? We are neither an importer or exporter (those Mickey Mouse pacific TWRS notwithstanding)...so why are we even dabbling in FOREX?

:ugh::ugh::ugh:
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
24th Sep 2008, 13:58
Replies: 1,216
Views: 192,321
Posted By Bill Woodfull

You bloody recalcitrants... 1....

You bloody recalcitrants...




1. The main aim of the entity (in descending order of priority):a. Profit. Bucks for the Governments budget surplus that they need badly;b. Publishing. Glossy...
Forum: ATC Issues
9th Sep 2008, 13:18
Replies: 10
Views: 5,267
Posted By Bill Woodfull

scroll the pages, its all here.

scroll the pages, its all here.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
3rd Sep 2008, 07:14
Replies: 79
Views: 31,106
Posted By Bill Woodfull

LOL - smashing girl for a seaside beak. I...

LOL - smashing girl for a seaside beak.

I agree with Howabout.

IMO...

Go to work if fit for duty (including the overtime thats propping up the system), its not the travelling public's...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
31st Aug 2008, 15:00
Replies: 79
Views: 31,106
Posted By Bill Woodfull

ATC do not want to strike. TIBA is a...

ATC do not want to strike.

TIBA is a result of mismanagement of Human Resources; Its a lack of recognition of fatigue etc by the Spin Men*; It comes from cutting rosters to minimise costs and...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
31st Aug 2008, 14:28
Replies: 98
Views: 20,748
Posted By Bill Woodfull

True enough. Hope to talk to you on the...

True enough.

Hope to talk to you on the radio sometime Ell85 (and if I take you off the star, slow you to 210 with 30 still to run - sorry in advance, its the numpty in front or that recalcitrant...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
30th Aug 2008, 07:31
Replies: 98
Views: 20,748
Posted By Bill Woodfull

Phew! I just read on the Assoc forum that 24...

Phew! I just read on the Assoc forum that 24 controller have recently resigned* at Melbourne Centre for other pastures/sand (most still working serving 'notice')...I thought for a sake that we may be...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
29th Aug 2008, 11:17
Replies: 98
Views: 20,748
Posted By Bill Woodfull

Nunnannannanna... (twilight zone music). Wow, so...

Nunnannannanna... (twilight zone music). Wow, so we have integrated some into earth life with jobs etc.

Did anyone ask how many moons had her planet and did they have quirky names like the moons...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
29th Aug 2008, 05:41
Replies: 98
Views: 20,748
Posted By Bill Woodfull

Indeed, looking at the assoc forum, it was a...

Indeed, looking at the assoc forum, it was a corker.

But I can't post it here because its would then be hearsay and then Mrs Woodfull's little boy Billy may get his botty smacked.

But! If...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
29th Aug 2008, 04:42
Replies: 98
Views: 20,748
Posted By Bill Woodfull

Hey, just realised only two more days folks and...

Hey, just realised only two more days folks and the staffing probs are all fixed!

I suppose that means no more TIBA and this thread will die, its been a pleasure folks.

But seriously, can...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
24th Aug 2008, 12:12
Replies: 28
Views: 5,722
Posted By Bill Woodfull

There was such a nudge nudge wink wink deal for...

There was such a nudge nudge wink wink deal for about five years from around the mid nineties to the new millenium.

I know plenty of RAAF friends who applied on-line for ab-intio Airservices...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
22nd Aug 2008, 06:26
Replies: 28
Views: 5,722
Posted By Bill Woodfull

= sex and travel advisory 101.

= sex and travel advisory 101.
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
19th Aug 2008, 12:14
Replies: 60
Views: 7,675
Posted By Bill Woodfull

When you are training in "live" traffic: ...

When you are training in "live" traffic:

OJTI (spraying coffee): Who [expletive] well told you you could do that? Who said that you could give an aircraft THAT requirement (muttering something...
Forum: ATC Issues
16th Aug 2008, 12:52
Replies: 117
Views: 102,916
Posted By Bill Woodfull

Singapurcanac

My French speaking buddies tell me that my verb conjugation in the said classic language is soooo bad I'm better with english (most of Europe are Latin based 'classic' languages for any not thus...
Forum: ATC Issues
16th Aug 2008, 11:10
Replies: 117
Views: 102,916
Posted By Bill Woodfull

Buen trabajo a mis colegas españoles de la unión...

Buen trabajo a mis colegas españoles de la unión del ATC. Si solamente teníamos testículos grandes como los suyos aquí en Australia.
Forum: ATC Issues
15th Aug 2008, 16:42
Replies: 117
Views: 102,916
Posted By Bill Woodfull

hunterboy

Are you serious?

Thanks for the info mate, 'tis what makes pprune what it is.

Thats the sort of numbers I have heard in days gone by. The fact that no Spaniard ever applies for foreign gigs...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
15th Aug 2008, 15:52
Replies: 60
Views: 7,675
Posted By Bill Woodfull

ANSA, No one will go to the sand without...

ANSA,

No one will go to the sand without due diligence.

People ARE hitting the bricks for Ireland and your next round of pay increases will see another wave (as opposed to your current...
Forum: ATC Issues
15th Aug 2008, 15:19
Replies: 117
Views: 102,916
Posted By Bill Woodfull

Rule 3

Good to hear mate!

I understood that DXB courses were full but this JXB thingy is such an unknown quantity and picking up a dozen dozen (not a typo - I meant 144) Tower, Approach and Enroute...
Forum: ATC Issues
15th Aug 2008, 05:00
Replies: 117
Views: 102,916
Posted By Bill Woodfull

As-salaam alaykum Rule 3, I understand...

As-salaam alaykum Rule 3,

I understand that one of those ANSPs (and possible the French) operate under attractive T+Cs and I want to poke someone in the ribs locally and say 'look what they are...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
14th Aug 2008, 06:28
Replies: 60
Views: 7,675
Posted By Bill Woodfull

More light reading...

Guilty air traffic controllers walk free after 71 die in crash - Times Online (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2388371.ece)

2001 Japan Airlines mid-air incident -...
Forum: ATC Issues
14th Aug 2008, 04:41
Replies: 117
Views: 102,916
Posted By Bill Woodfull

Greetings, salutations, a nice cold beer after...

Greetings, salutations, a nice cold beer after work, and warm heart to share it with to my fellow Controllers in Europe.

Just thought I'd pop this thread back up there and ask the controllers of...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
14th Aug 2008, 03:27
Replies: 60
Views: 7,675
Posted By Bill Woodfull

Have a few 'incidents' or one Airprox because...

Have a few 'incidents' or one Airprox because you're not playing your A-game due fatigue and...

...to your career.

Are the HR departments of the IAA, DFS and Serco ME aware of this thread?
...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
14th Aug 2008, 00:54
Replies: 60
Views: 7,675
Posted By Bill Woodfull

and that, dear friend, is the raison d'être of...

and that, dear friend, is the raison d'être of this thread - to alert our flying colleagues to this new tactic in the last grasp of ze straws from Spin City (before Big Tony attends the next board...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
13th Aug 2008, 10:56
Replies: 60
Views: 7,675
Posted By Bill Woodfull

Like the Perth, Adelaide and Cairns Approach...

Like the Perth, Adelaide and Cairns Approach controllers are a single man/woman doggo on their pat malone all night in a remote environment?

The single person doggo, an Airservices specialty. To...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
13th Aug 2008, 09:00
Replies: 60
Views: 7,675
Posted By Bill Woodfull

I want to know when I can stop all the... ...

I want to know when I can stop all the...

"Redjet10, divert left of track as required, report clear of the weather and able to take vectors for the ILS, maintain xxx due opposite direction...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
13th Aug 2008, 03:50
Replies: 60
Views: 7,675
Posted By Bill Woodfull

wesky, what you are referring to is "tombstone...

wesky, what you are referring to is "tombstone regulation".

My question is who is going to go to be in the dock if the worst happens (eg a Lake Constance)? Is the media going to ask the hard...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
1st Aug 2008, 04:57
Replies: 148
Views: 15,918
Posted By Bill Woodfull

There will be no need for strike action IMHO. ...

There will be no need for strike action IMHO.

Airservices says we have 972 Operational Controllers and are 17 short.

We actually have around 750 'moving metal' controllers which makes us...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
28th Jul 2008, 13:01
Replies: 148
Views: 15,918
Posted By Bill Woodfull

What concerns me...

It took a fuselage integrity issue and a saved dive by some pro's on the flightdeck to maybe be the catlyst for GDs sayonara. What will it take for our skipper (another slash and burn and "profit* is...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
28th Jul 2008, 12:44
Replies: 148
Views: 15,918
Posted By Bill Woodfull

I took less than 8 sick days and did over 20 call...

I took less than 8 sick days and did over 20 call ins. A lot of those sick days by peers are long term ones (hospitalisation etc).

An IRC decision as part of a failed restructure - taking 100...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
28th Jul 2008, 11:41
Replies: 148
Views: 15,918
Posted By Bill Woodfull

Indeed. Critical Mass is rather imminent old...

Indeed. Critical Mass is rather imminent old chum. We already have Australia's standard of Central African [lack of] ATC on the BBC et al.

Now admitting one has 'f*cked up', that is the issue....
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
28th Jul 2008, 11:01
Replies: 148
Views: 15,918
Posted By Bill Woodfull

Are you talking tin pushing/talking on the radio...

Are you talking tin pushing/talking on the radio controllers? Or googling/talking sh*t with no traffic endorsement controllers?

You'll find a large number of radio using/tin pushing types gave...
Forum: ATC Issues
15th Jul 2008, 08:01
Replies: 27
Views: 8,554
Posted By Bill Woodfull

I shouldn't have waved such a wide brush baz. Was...

I shouldn't have waved such a wide brush baz. Was specifically referring to the single man night shifts which go TIBA with monotonous regularity.
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