Skyshow 2008

wizzard · Post by **wizzard** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 11:52 pm

Tyranus wrote:
wizzard wrote:
gkoutlis wrote: Affirmitive Mr R
I'll See you there Mr G
Which van and where abouts? I'll come say Hi this time unlike the Relay for life last year!

try hurlingham st first aid post, south perth.. the most eastern FAP on the south side

Post by **Tyranus** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:11 am

no worries if I'm heading in alone unless told otherwise I'll came see.

wizzard · Post by **wizzard** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:17 am

Tyranus wrote:no worries if I'm heading in alone unless told otherwise I'll came see.

you'll find Mr G there
i'll be somewhere on the southside, depending where i'm called too

Post by **celestial_insight** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 7:32 am

Soundtrack 94.5 MHz (obviously)
Pyro Firing Data for barges and buildings - SMPTE - 492.425 MHz
Laser Data - FSK - 88.4 MHz
94.5 OB Audio to studio - 846.200 MHz
Studio to OB talkback - 494.500 MHz
Channel 7 chopper - 163.400 MHz

PC9 and RAAF displays will be communicating on 119.7 Mhz
The planes will take up a holding pattern over Herdsman Lake at 1915 before their run in at 1929. There will be a series of figure 8's over Perth Water, before a bomb burst display approaching Kings Park. Following this there will be a low level aerobatic display from the North West. The four planes involved in the figure 8's and bomb burst will be callsigns Vampire 1-4, and the aerobatics will be Vampire 5.

Ground to chopper flying Australian Flag will be on a channel 7 private UHF freq (not many to choose from if you scan through them)http://web.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/clien ... Y=category

City of Perth, Mix 94.5 and Channel 7 are using hired talkaround units to communicate throughout the event.

Post by **yorky** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:42 am

ta for the info.

I'm guessing the data channels won't have anything useful other than data tones?

Post by **celestial_insight** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:49 am

Nah, data freqs will be very dull.

Post by **playworth** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:22 pm

celestial_insight wrote:Nah, data freqs will be very dull.

wicked

Post by **celestial_insight** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 2:42 pm

playworth wrote:
celestial_insight wrote:Nah, data freqs will be very dull.
wicked

nachoman · Post by **nachoman** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:00 pm

Police using
Ch 24 Forrest St command
Ch 27 Queen St command
Ch 38 Crawley command
Ch 39 Barrack St command
Ch 44

SES on 468.6

Post by **Tyranus** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:30 am

Pictures are over here: http://www.warsug.info/viewtopic.php?t=3931

Post by **Tyranus** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:35 pm

Unfortunately no matter how hard I looked or how many bikies I asked I could not find the infamous TE705, sorry for the dissapointment all, but this guy was hiding some where good!

Post by **playworth** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 5:22 pm

ehh he was flying upand dwn mount bay rd. after the skyshow.

Post by **gkoutlis** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:34 am

Quiet an interesting Skyshow - Most of our foot patrols consisted in us getting hounded by the media each time a casualty had an "incident" along the way... - also am so fed up with the drunken yobbos who abused, spat and threatened - when people asked us for drugs or syringes etc - Now.... - Do Volunteer First Aiders really look like we carry that sort of thing anyway??? - NO!!! - So if we refuse to answer and keep walking - these dickheads who think they are australian by wearing the flag as a cape and acting up - why should we get treated like that - being followed etc??? - *end of vent*

anyways - overall - I was impressed with the Air Show by the different planes etc - and those Jets - wern't they awsome???

wizzard · Post by **wizzard** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:46 am

gkoutlis wrote: anyways - overall - I was impressed with the Air Show by the different planes etc - and those Jets - wern't they awsome???

there was an airshow? saw the helitanks do a drop,
heard some jets, but that was about it

and some of the abuse that we got trying to get places on a P1, i think they would think differently if it was them, or their friends that we were trying to get too

Post by **yorky** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 8:49 am

Well I had a listen whilst on the shore about a k away whilst watching the sky explode.

I listened to the 3 operation channels which were all busy bees, one however someone had there portable's switch down for about 20min and no other portables could contact there command. Seemed liked fights were breaking out everywhere by the sounds of it.

One thing I didn't get the freq for was the circling air traffic, that was almost a spectacle in itself! How on earth they manage that many aircraft in one spot I'll never know.

The show boating aircraft during the afternoon went over where I was near Nedlands as it seemed to be the flight path for them so lots of interesting plane spotting there. The 8 odd choppers in formation was a sight to see. The jets went over so fast I only saw them for about a second though. Rescue 65 is mighty good lookin.

I also saw what looked like a bunch of Police cars (possible boats) southside towards the city along the freeway that stopped short of the bridge, dunno what was going on there.

EDIT: From above, yes there were dozens of different aircraft doing flyby's. And I also heard on the command channels of police always needed to escort ambo's through as they couldn't get through the crowds.