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Post by vultee43 on Apr 25, 2020 12:32:19 GMT 12
Despite the upset and distress caused by cancellations of ANZAC Day services it was wonderful to see so many people paying remembrance here in Australia by lighting up the morning at the front of their houses. The Spirit is still alive to show respect to those who served.
On a side note it gave me a great smile (and sense of satisfaction) to see Harvard ex NZ1099 fly over loud and low this morning in Hobart as a flyover mark of respect. Many warbird operators were told and emphatic no at their applications to hold flypasts (how this contravenes social distancing baffles me) but Jethro at Tasmanian Warbird Adventures just did it. Thank you so much for honouring the sacrifice of Australian and New Zealand servicemen and women. Lest we forget.🇦🇺🇳🇿
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Post by ErrolC on Apr 25, 2020 14:16:58 GMT 12
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Post by ErrolC on Apr 25, 2020 14:52:23 GMT 12
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Post by Mustang51 on Apr 25, 2020 21:45:15 GMT 12
Well done to all. Paul Bennet's flying circus did huge flight from Hunter Valley down to Swansea, to Wangi, Camden then back via Sydney Harbour. The Caboolture warbirds guys were refused permission to fly. Bloody stupid bureaucrats. Reason.... also social distancing !!! How four pilots in four different aircraft from four separate hangars on the airfield could break social distancing in a formation flight is totally beyond reason, intelligence and any form of common sense. Thinking Scomo is getting a letter
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Post by mcmaster on Apr 26, 2020 0:28:54 GMT 12
Well done to all. Paul Bennet's flying circus did huge flight from Hunter Valley down to Swansea, to Wangi, Camden then back via Sydney Harbour. The Caboolture warbirds guys were refused permission to fly. Bloody stupid bureaucrats. Reason.... also social distancing !!! How four pilots in four different aircraft from four separate hangars on the airfield could break social distancing in a formation flight is totally beyond reason, intelligence and any form of common sense. Thinking Scomo is getting a letter These bloody stupid bureaucrats and other health advisors are the same people who have kept Australia from the nightmare of the US and Italy and France and the UK etc etc. Every interest group wants to get back to normal and the problem is it’s imprecise because (I assume) there isn’t the capacity to look at every event individually. I also think Scomo has enough on his plate right now..like hoping Aust doesn’t end up like US Italy and France ...etc etc |
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Post by colford on Apr 26, 2020 9:21:29 GMT 12
Fighter Pilot Adventure Flights out of Archerfield, Brisbane, did an early morning low level training flight with their Spitfire XVI and P-51D from Archerfield to Tweed Heads, then north along the coastline back to Brisbane. They got some good coverage from the local media including ABC TV news and 9 News. Was talk that they might be fined by Queensland Government for being in breach of the social distancing measures, but apparently that notion got dropped fairly quickly.
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Post by Mustang51 on Apr 26, 2020 13:13:42 GMT 12
McMaster, there is a time and a place and I am doing all I can to follow health advice and socially distance even on my major construction job with some 300 workers all in close proximity. Did I mention health advisors? I mentioned bureaucrats who would have 'advised' the health guys and gals. However, it was NOT an AIRSHOW, it was a flypast, it was at dawn NOT during the day when others could/would have been about, there was NO published route, there was NO advertising. There was NO risk. NSW had no such restrictions. It merely goes to show, yet again, that there is disparity with how this entire health event is being treated with sometimes inconsistent and sometimes contradictory advice. Well done to James in Qld with the Spitfire and Mustang flight at dawn. I am following all the health advice. Those two flypasts and the cancelled flypast by Ed and the boys would have done nothing to jeopardise social distancing
I am also sure that Scomo, as the local member and someone who can look at things both pragmatically and practically can look at the rules and quickly establish what is necessary and what is NOT
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Post by ErrolC on Apr 26, 2020 13:26:28 GMT 12
McMaster, there is a time and a place... Ando, you can't criticize people and pass an opinion, then complain it is not the time and a place when someone else has a different opinion on the same matter. |
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Post by vultee43 on Apr 28, 2020 20:30:28 GMT 12
I'm seeing privately owned GA aircraft daily from different airstrips. Tha Caboulture guys could have chosen to do an unofficial' flyover and run the gauntlet, but they chose to to do the right thing and were denied. Seems ludicrous that idividuals in encased aircraft trying to build morale and put a smile on faces are shot down.
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Post by mcmaster on Apr 30, 2020 14:22:07 GMT 12
McMaster, there is a time and a place and I am doing all I can to follow health advice and socially distance even on my major construction job with some 300 workers all in close proximity. Did I mention health advisors? I mentioned bureaucrats who would have 'advised' the health guys and gals. However, it was NOT an AIRSHOW, it was a flypast, it was at dawn NOT during the day when others could/would have been about, there was NO published route, there was NO advertising. There was NO risk. NSW had no such restrictions. It merely goes to show, yet again, that there is disparity with how this entire health event is being treated with sometimes inconsistent and sometimes contradictory advice. Well done to James in Qld with the Spitfire and Mustang flight at dawn. I am following all the health advice. Those two flypasts and the cancelled flypast by Ed and the boys would have done nothing to jeopardise social distancing I am also sure that Scomo, as the local member and someone who can look at things both pragmatically and practically can look at the rules and quickly establish what is necessary and what is NOT Hey Ando. Points taken. You have all the detail on this event and your defence of it makes total sense. My reaction to your post was a general one and in hindsight would have been better communicated on its own and away from ANZAC day discussions. I have sympathy for those making decisions and given how quickly they had to be made, there will be good and bad decisions. I also reckon imposing the lockdowns was the easy bit compared with this new phase regarding re-opening our lives and economies, without deaths spiking. But right now how thankful I am to live here in Aus (and with NZ next door). Cheers |
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