Mid-air collision at Caboolture - 28/07/2023

[Kyle Communications]

I am making a educated guess based on 30 plus years experience in the radio communications sales and repair industry. Having worked on the particular brand of that radio for almost as long as they have been around which by the way is getting close to that time line. I ALWAYS get a radio check before every flight. Usually while taxiing out to the strip during warmup. The radio box of bits is just electronics and they can and will fail. You usually only find out some time later after it fails when it becomes obvious there is a issue.

 

The trees issue has always been there since the airfield was made. Discussions with the Council to remove them has been made many times over the 30+ years the airfield has been there but the club was not allowed to remove them as it is not on the lease of the airfield but it is still on the agenda to be rectified and is still being pursued. Hopefully this report may allow a bigger stick to be used to get it done. It was NOT the club stopping this.

 

The dual runway issue as I said has been a long term bone of contention until this hit over the head with a big rock. This has been more firmly addressed since (read the current ERSA)... BUT even so there are still issues with dickheads and pilots who should not be pilots ( who also NEVER read the ERSA). In any club or association no matter what pursuit you do there is always about 5 or 10% of members who are either too stupid to comply or just dont give a rats arse about airmanship or courstesy or even safety.  This is also trying to be addressed a lot more firmly but this also has issues of some people wishing to threaten certain types of legal action so its wonderful to sit back and be a opionator of how and what should be done but there are a lot more factors involved to actually get things done and make a difference. Human Factors has a whole new subject in it that is never spoken about but is very real.

 

 

[Bernie]

Remember the days when you would ask ATC for QNH...in reality just making sure your radio worked.

Bernie.

[BrendAn]

  On 06/06/2025 at 7:18 PM, Bernie said:

Remember the days when you would ask ATC for QNH...in reality just making sure your radio worked.

Bernie.

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At our field when you broadcast your intentions the RAAF atis answers you which is great , you know you have been heard and you can hear it.

[kgwilson]

Many places have automated response units which is a good way to check if your radio is working. That is if the airwaves are not busy. The one at Grafton will respond if there has been no other received calls in the previous 5 minutes. Also if you are hearing radio calls you at least know the receiver is working. There is no harm in asking for a radio check if other aircraft are in the vicinity.