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Update to the timeline of miniscule corruption.

References: Timeline of miniscule corruption - Part II

From the school of 'passing strange' coincidences??

Sunshine & Daylight Hours in Mildura, New South Wales, Australia

• There is an average of 2938 hours of sunlight per year (of a possible 4383) with an average of 8:02 of sunlight per day.
  
  
• It is sunny 67% of daylight hours. The remaining 33% of daylight hours are likely cloudy or with shade, haze or low sun intensity.
  

Hmm...says it all really??   

However you never know when you might just have another Mildura fog duck up...  

Ref: The great Mildura Fog and fuel duck up. & https://auntypru.com/forum/showthread.ph...12#pid1012 & https://auntypru.com/forum/showthread.ph...96#pid3696

Been meaning to get back to this for sometime because IMO it really needs some serious scrutiny...

Via the other Aunty...

Pilots question location of $4m landing system upgrade at Mildura Airport

ABC Mildura-Swan Hill
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By Christopher Testa and Cherie von Hörchner

Posted Friday 31 July 2020 at 10:31am, updated Friday 31 July 2020 at 11:30am


Drought conditions and high winds create dust storms in Mildura, reducing visibility.(ABC Mildura-Swan Hill: Christopher Testa)

There are concerns $4 million worth of equipment being installed at a regional Victorian airport to make low-visibility landings easier for pilots will be put in the wrong place.

In the lead up to last year's election, the Federal Government promised it would spend $2 million installing a category 1 instrument landing system (ILS) at Mildura Airport.


However, the final piece of funding needed was only secured this week when Mildura councillors agreed to allocate $1 million in the city's 2020-21 budget.

It is touted as a boon for the commercial aviation sector and a recently established pilot training academy, but some are questioning whether the airport will maximise the benefits from the equipment, due to be switched on next year.

Key points:

• Pilots question Mildura Airport's decision to put an instrument landing system on its east-facing runway
  
  
• Mildura community members are concerned cost saving is behind the choice of location
  
  
• Questions have also been raised on how the airport will cover $120,000 in yearly maintenance costs
  

...However Qantas captain Shane Loney, the safety and technical director at the Australian and International Pilots Association, warned the positioning of an ILS "has to be determined by prevailing conditions and need, rather than saving money".

"If you put the ILS installation in such a position that it minimises cost only, and doesn't take into effect what direction does the wind blow from, where does the fog appear, then you can be forcing aeroplanes to have to land with a tailwind," Mr Loney said...

..Charter pilot Andrew Mason, who runs a private flying school and commercial operation in Mildura, said the ILS would be "useless" if not positioned correctly.

"It's going to be lined up on the runway that faces east [09] where predominately the weather comes from the west — especially high winds and dust storms," he said.

"Effectively from a weather point of view, all the weather that comes from the west, the aeroplanes will have to land into the wind, which is what we have to do and the ILS will be facing the wrong direction for that."...

..When he announced the federal funding for the ILS in April 2019, Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack said he had been told Mildura needed the equipment "so pilot training schools can relocate to Mildura"...

And/or read the comments/posts in reply on the subject via the UP: https://www.pprune.org/australia-new-zea...way-4.html


MTF? - Definitely!...P2