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    These days it's quite common to put 700hr drivers (first step up) on turbines, few companies even putting 'green' drivers on them doing scenic work. Don't exactly agree with it but they don't seem to be having any issues. Hardest thing I found with turbines is you have basically no understanding of them when you start with them, unlike pistons which most of the general public have an understanding of and very familiar with them from a young age. Personally I've stripped and rebuilt a few. There's nothing hard about turbines, just don't bugger it up as it's either very expensive or will fail spectacularly.
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    PelAir was 09, still not finalised.
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    Thats how I still fly! Passengers must like it as they always thank me for my landing but, I believe it over the top as they call me god. On a serious note, Darwins law should have claimed this one, lucky.
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    Nev gear has been confirmed as down still unsure if it was retracted at any point. Very puzzling this one.
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    Blood and DNA testing.... This will get more stupid before it gets better
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    Just today got my renewed asic, took 2 months to the day.... Any longer and I wouldn't have been able to work, had to arrange a month extension, a lot of headache.
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    The 340's were made after 89, most of the REX fleet seem to be early/mid 90's. I read somewhere that the average fleet age was around 23yrs. We operate older airframes then REX, older than me by a few years, certainly has a few challenges but I wouldn't associate an engine shutdown with an aging fleet. Business is set up for the size of the 340 to run the leaner routes, a Q400 would be overkill on a lot of routes they run and a 100 or 200 would be older again. There is a market for a new aircraft just doesn't seem to be anyone willing to make it.
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    What HF said is spot on. My suggestion would be to do some RA time as well, just enough to get the hang of it as the hours may not be of short term benefit depending on training choice and jobs applying for. All experience is of benefit in the long run. The integrated courses can be good depending of the flight school, and ground school classes may suit some better but exactly the opposite is true of the non integrated courses so it's really about choosing a good school to fit the applicant. I did an integrated course and learnt a lot that of 'non technical skills ' that have helped me through the industry, basically just professionalism stuff. Benny is correct regarding the military, with appropriate grades, commitment, and youth it will ensure he will become a good pilot if he stuck it through. Only bit of advice is whatever route is taken outside of the RAAF, remember it's 'your' money being spent..
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    It was found about 2 min flight time from where it was expected to be.....
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    The other aircraft was QLink something delta (Q400). They were confused in regards to who approach were talking about as they had also declared a PAN. They were requesting 16R until they realised there was another pan who were OEI and accepted 16L.
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    If anyone did get upset about an outage and no access that could only be taken as a compliment couldn't it?
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    We have had CVD ATPL for a significant amount of time.
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    I more so meant that most of what I have to say would be in regards to a C1 and not so relevant for this site, also it has been done to death on the other site. I for sure support sensible medical changes and have done lots to show support. Posting on a forum doesn't achieve al lot.
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    It isn't just that tho, it's the new further reaching medical system, the request for metadata, the RPL Med, the response or lack of to mental health concerns, I could go on but basically they have SHOWN no sign of more sensible medical standards. If the medical system was, rational, sensible reasonable and actual had the interest of both the pilot and safety standards I doubt anyone would have an issue with obtaining one and would eliminate one advantage of RA.
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    We are looking at the facts Roscoe. There have been numerous changes over the last few years and this isn't the place to go into it.
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    Colour vision defective. Colour blind for us non medics.
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    I still think it's a good career but you have to want it. It took me 4 years before I cracked a good (paid above the poverty line) gig, and ild say I've had a decent run, can take lots longer but I've taken a few gambles that have paid off well. I don't see the cost changing any time soon, to be honest I see it getting worse, rapidly. It's a pretty good time to be an Oz pilot at the moment. Pretty much everyone from my period of charter are now sitting in the seat they wanted, if they stuck it out. The guys I knew that went the FIR route haven't seen any progression but they haven't had the opportunity to do any multi/turn/night/IFR etc so can't move on, but they got to spend their time on there east coast so each to their own.
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    CVD pilots may disagree.
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    Why would anyone want to hack a site like this ? What would they be able to gain?
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    I believe it's a mix of frequencies, mixed by the website which is why not all calls are heard.
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    I wonder what that house worth £4000 would be worth today? The inflation calculator says it would be $135k in today's money, but it's still easy to but a house in Sydney as long as you don't eat avocad. http://www.rba.gov.au/calculator/annualPreDecimal.html
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    Educated guess is it's around half way between Narellan and Min'o but they were grounding about 4 miles a min at the time so 30 sec here or there could change that a bit.
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    You have made 2 incorrect assumptions there. First that I know what a Watt is, Second that I know what a joules is. The only correct assumption is that I know what a Horse is!
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    Not to support the current medical requirements but they already do with the class 1/2 medical requirements. Change needs to happen with the whole medical requirements.
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    Copied this from pPRune for anyone interested. Busy times.. [MEDIA=audio]http://archive-server.liveatc.net/yssy/YSSY-Twr-Mar-17-2017-0030Z.mp3[/MEDIA]
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