Dont let Airmanship slide.

[Ben Longden]

..... its already up on the wall at Air Shepparton.....

 

(onya Matt!)

 

Ben

 

 

[poteroo]

Airmanship.....Roadmanship ?? There's a % of road users who are just plain arrogantly dangerous, so maybe there's always going to be a % of pilots who'll short-cut procedures ?

 

The poor radio awareness situation is a concern though. And it's not just amateurs who get it wrong - have had one incident with the RFDS remaining on 'area' in the CTAF-R.

 

Audio selector panels are a common cause - they are high on the radio stack and often the switches get flicked into the speaker or mid-way position by hands on the panel coaming when in turbulence.

 

Radio volume is probably the most common fault - turned down to talk with pax, and not reset at initial inbound call. At CTAF-R's this is inexcusable because the taped identifier should be audible after your initial call.

 

I certainly agree that the existence of landing charges is associated with overt avoidance of radio calls. I'm pleased to advise that our city has agreed to scrap landing charges for anything under 2000kg - not because of any benevolence, but because (1) they couldn't record them all using existing airport staff, (2) Avdata is too expensive, and (3) the average cost of invoicing was 4x the landing fee. What they are loathe to admit is that aircraft movements halved after the application of charges - and never recovered !!

 

happy days,