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also heard them on 468.625 pl 107.2 .... very scratchy from Moss Vale

yep, VH-DVV, Cessna 206H

In the budget released a day or two ago the "aging" polair 5 is going to be replaced with a counter-terrorism heliocopter and the nsw police are going to buy/replace a fixed wing aircraft. Grant A Bell 412 and a Pilatus PC-12 is highly considered for a fixed wing observation platform. All I do know...

How do the volunteers feel about the change over?
I would imagine a lot of volos who are not really into investing into a digital scanner, would have old analogue radios that will feel put out?

with wages and pilot training?? Yes. Hourly costs for Government for aircraft is averaged out per year until the aircraft is paid off / expected retirement date which includes all costs including purchase or lease. So it inflates each year as costs go up. The original Polairs (jetrangers) were runn...

Polair5/Fireair1 (BK117) is costed at $3600 / hour to operate according to NSW Hansard, but it is not fitted with FLIR.
Polair 1 and 3 are at $2100 / hour, Polair 2. $2600 / hour.
(This is all costs added up)

"Channel X" does not exist anymore, they just use Channel W.

news wrote:he is the technical writer of course, You know, the ones that came 1st place in science class assignments.

and not 1st in the "up-to-date facts class"....

Is the reason why teams have to transmit in analogue is so Channel 7 & the commentators can listen in & rebroadcast it to the viewers at home. I'm presuming the TV station has a Analogue scanner programmed with all the frequencies. John. From a colleague as of a couple of years ago, Global TV (who ...

Put it this way, the jellybean counters at FRNSW have decided they are no longer paying for a Comms Operator to sit on their backside all day playing cards and watching TV and take the occasional fire call. They would have asked "Can all these dispatch areas be merged?".... Answer "Yes, with costs" ...