by K_P9 | May 13, 2015 | Accidents and Inquiry, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
It was my intention to avoid the hand wringing and hair pulling associated with the fatal CFIT event which occurred during and instrument approach by a Metroliner to the remote coastal airstrip of Lockhart river. There where 15 fatalities that fateful day. I can see...
by K_P9 | May 11, 2015 | Senate Estimates - Unplugged
Abbott, Joyce and Truss may not be overly concerned about matters aeronautical, in all probability they hardly even know ‘aviation’ exists in any other form except for free, first class travel, a revenue stream and donations. Some may even believe...
by K_P9 | May 9, 2015 | Senate Estimates - Unplugged
Wow; There is whisper, which, if true and handled properly by the grown ups, suggests there is quite a story brewing related to the airport approved to have a toxic waste dump built on a floodplain. We will have to wait (alas) a little while before getting to the...
by K_P9 | May 1, 2015 | Accidents and Inquiry, Senate Estimates - Unplugged
It is a mad world, seriously, truly, completely and utterly insane. I watch the news and see the lamp-post huggers, armed with candles, all dewy eyed and wailing because a sovereign nation has exercised their law and shot a couple of drug smugglers, who for profit,...
by K_P9 | Apr 29, 2015 | Senate Estimates - Unplugged
Master Easton sets a bar the majority of main stream media journalists could not attempt; flat, factual, no frills reporting. Until P2 brought ‘the Mandarin’ to my attention it would never have entered my wooden head to even contemplate reading such a...