Aviation Forum / Country Specific / Australian Group / August 2007

I can't wait to have a go of this! I couldn't find any reference to it in
the newsgroup and wondered if anybody here has had a play? From an online
Getaway article, "Hong Kong's old airport, Kai Tak, is rather spectacular
as landing aircraft go perilously close to tall buildings ...

According to the ABC radio news...
Cheers
Peter Cokley
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IN THE LAND OF BASTARDS THERE ARE ACCEPTABLE AND NON ACCEPTABLE
PIONEERS
Please note some of the worthless names highlighted in that piece of
sh.t the SMH rag 's pen slave John Huxley wrote :

Got a couple of little charges from Airservices yesterday. One for
Rockhampton, and one for Coffs Harbour. These were for flights in
their airspace which took place back in April..... Is this amount of
delay between incurring the charges and being billed for them typical?

Well, I passed my check ride!
Suffice is to say, I have flown MUCH better before today, and I really
was not at all happy with my performance, but I passed none the less.
Now, time to start learning.

From only USD$3K, burns Jet A1, 16 pounds of thrust... :-)
<http://www.quicktechhobby.com/Engines/QTH%20JET%20ENGINES.htm>
GB

Not really off topic but a few posts back COOP made referebce to a
flight sim program
Flight gear sims
Muggins here decided to laod his first flight sim application and

An article on the shitfight that British airports have become:
<http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9621666>
GB

I read in this morning's West, that QF intend spedning some 50 Million on
refurbishing terminal facilities in Perth. Not before time I might add!
There was a mention of Perth now having some 8 million passengers annually.
One wonders if Virgin will follow suit? Last friday picked ...

    I will be conducting a flight from Goolwa to Williams Creek on
the way to Birdsville and I am not familiar with Adelaide CTA and was
wondering the best way to get across it. I will be flying from Goolwa
to Port Augusta, I think the best way would be to file a flight plan

Folks,
I wondered if people could enlighten me as to the requirements to report
incidents to CASA.
I'll give you a scenario:

What's the big white helo that's been circling Canberra for most of the
afternoon? It wasn't a shape I could recognise from some distance away.
Cheers
David

<http://www.fad.co.za/Resources/aviation/FB/cambria.jpg>
GB

Jetstar Passengers Stranded Again in Cairns and Honolulu
http://www.jetstar.com/skylights/cgi-bin/skylights.cgi?module=FL&lang=auen&langu
age=EN
Note "cut and paste" on their website totally screwed the advice to
passengers in Cairns, as it makes reference to the Honolulu stranding.

Info here - beware it's pprune
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=287594
AA