Deano747

Question for the admins - how does one block a topic?

Yes - edited my post. All areas does not include onboard .......

An ASIC for aviation related industries has your company name on it - it IS your company ID ........... Tradies ID's are not getting ypo past the door. Do you believe that they would get a chippie to fix a seat or a plumber fix a toilet?

No airline employee is going to let anyone on as a passenger with a very obvious tool belt full of sharp pointy things. Tradie is never getting that stuff in the cabin. Only a LAME working for the airline with an appropriate security pass visible is going to be permitted on board with tools to fix something, but never allowed to remain unsupervised even with the pass, or permitted to stay until doors close. Boarding pass has been bandied about by the media that really know very little about aviation nor security .............though I did hear my old colleague mutter boarding pass on National TV. (suspect he has been hanging around the media too much)

Try dropbox. It works to copy routes between my iPad, iPhone and MacBook laptop. Might work in reverse.......

Mate - give it rest. The absence of an ASIC worked as intended. Sorry ........

The actual fact is that the person was questioned because he was not displaying an ASIC. ASIC seemed to have worked - probably to the horror of some that decry it's effectiveness ............

Sorry - we assumed that this was a rhetorical question. 1) A VFR flight must submit a flight plan when operating in class C or D airspace, so a flight plan was required to depart Darwin. MOS 09.02 Rule has been around since at least 1978 though the reference was different back last century......... 2) A flight plan may be submitted by radio if you do not have online access or a phone. Airservices - forget the reference

I don't have concerns besides the 'experts' looking for their 15 seconds of fame. The crash occurred because the Blackhawk crew failed to follow the 'don't crash into the airplane' instruction. The 'how and why that happened' should be left to real experts and not those seeking likes .......

So do you close the airport (or the runway 33) that the pollies there love as it's close to work, or the military route that the pollies there love? I do agree that the separation standards that have become the norm there have been proved to be too loose, and a third option will undoubtedly be implemented.

My unanswered questions would be 1 Who was actually flying both the RJ and the Blackhawk? Comments about the F/O on the RJ who should have been looking out for traffic assumes the Captain was the PF. Male voice on the Blackhawk radio doesn't mean it wasn't the voice of the pilot flying. It was usual for the flying pilot in the helicopter in both the RAAF and RAF world to do the ground and tower radio with the non flying pilot doing the enroute and tactical radios. 2 Military training flight just means it's non operational flight - doesn't mean it was a check ride. They don't fly for fun - only really 4 types of Military flying - positioning / training (recency) / instructional (which is your initial training and also check flights) / and operational. My opinion only but "Training flight" smacks of recency. Who's recency - Instructors need to retain recency as well as the lower life pilots (NVG recency with the RAF while I was there was something like 10 hours pm). I believe that it would be unlikely the crew were using augmented vision for that part of the sortie - and no one has detailed where they were going after - lots of dark airspace south of Fort Washington to get your NVG work in. Which pilot was Captain - just because one pilot had more hours and was an instructor doesn't automatically make them the Captain for a flight. Senior squadron pilots and also Instructors often had the 'bog rat' as the Captain on recency and positioning flights for their experience and development. As mentioned - there are a whole heap of 'experts' that have weighed in on this - very few that have both military helicopter and commercial experience operation in that bit of airspace. Most are just cobbling together bits of gossip from various sources and trying to make it sound factual. Let's wait for the real 'experts' ...........

Lot of assumptions made by Juan (and other 'Experts') with little to no actual evidence to support.

Fact 1 - is correct 2 - tower radar readout has them at 200' - to be verified by the Blackhawk's flight recorder 3 - had turned through up to 90 degrees left and right of track along the route 4 - aircrew had NVG's attached to their helmets - whether they were being used for 'augmented' vision or flipped up will be a matter for the accident review. My opinion (based on quite a bit of experience with NVG's in helicopters) is they would have been flipped up for that part of the sortie as the sheer volume of background lighting would have caused too much flaring.

And the Blackhawk pilots were on NVG - no depth perception using them so no 'rate of closure'.

When passengers were still able to come to visit the flight deck, we had one lady come up with both front windows a full blown lightning storm. It was a spectacular show but as she ran shrieking all the way back through business class and down the stairs, we figured that it may not have been such an appropriate time for a pax visit.

Major loss of electrics may explain the rush to land - the lack of gear & flap. Other thought is smoke in the cockpit caused by some failure of the left engine (no reverse thrust on that side) necessitates switching off all non essential electrics. Checklists are really hard to read with smoke goggles on and hard to get right when in a hurry .......

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-03/recreational-plane-hobby-aviation-training-regulations-atsb/104692536 "Twenty-seven people died in 20 light aircraft crashes in 2024, including those flying in home-built planes, crop dusters, and helicopters."

Friend races formula Porsche - the favoured shell to build a racer with is one with a sunroof (stronger structure in the side & roof area) and LHD. Right handed people are fractionally quicker with gearshifts using the dominant hand. Muscle memory plays a part as well - I used my right hand on the joystick for 15 years in the military and another 12 in the RHS of commercial airplanes - quite a switch moving across with not just hands and arms but also eyes. Had to search for stuff instead of glancing for some time

No public transport system anywhere (not just in Oz) makes money ....... It's a combined loss - it costs to build it and to run it and you lose the revenue that you would otherwise make from parking fees, vehicle registration and fuel excise. Probably why it's called public transport and fewer than half the population will ever use it. Now - lets chat about taxpayers providing bicycle lanes for those mobile chicanes ....😁

Sydney has a train - Brisbane has a train - Perth has a Train -

It didn't go anywhere - merely a tourist attraction. Travel to some of our 'undeveloped' neighbours and see how their light rail can be sooooo much faster than a bus. Easier to get on/off, easier to just wheel your luggage on. Biggest stumbling block with Melbourne is the amount of money the Airport is making from parking and the Gov is making from vehicle registrations & petrol taxes. Rail will never be a money making success - it should be a public service and encourage tourism.

Only if the POH requires it. B707 was either seat ....... On a lot of checks it was in a jump seat - or downstairs in First class ........ With the RAF it was often not a Pilot in Command - Nav, EWO, TacO, Loadmaster on 1 occasion ........

Rest of the 'undeveloped' World uses a light rail above the road. Tram already goes to within a kilometre of Tullamarine - plenty of real estate if you have a look into the 3rd dimension .........

Tangent .... Sweden did exactly that back in the late 60's ...... overnight. 😀

And even with a 100% tariff .......