15 Helicopters land in the World Heritage Area

[taswegian]

Isn't the admission The investigation found that the landing occurred due to a range of factors, including the weather, pilot experience, communications, and some helicopters not able to cope with high winds,” a spokeswoman said enough to raise eyebrows in the flying authorities area?
Pilot inexperience! Weather! Helicopters not able to cope with high winds!
Did they even bother to check what normally makes up a day in our vast outdoors?

If that'd been walkers inexperienced etc with Southwest conditions they would have been pilloried by police, media, Parks!

Certainly a Lame-Duck response. Pathetic. Just adds another excuse when same happens again.
As weak as "The Dog ate my homework" excuse.

[Twilson]

Just saw this procession of helicopters heading down the Tasman peninsula:

Wondering if it might be another helibiz safari?
Hopefully whoever they are, they respect world heritage areas this time...

[FLICKIT]

Just saw this procession of helicopters heading down the Tasman peninsula:

Wondering if it might be another helibiz safari?
Hopefully whoever they are, they respect world heritage areas this time...

It appears they were all local aircraft from Helicopter Resources and Rotorlift.. Helicopter Resources is the company that does all the trackwork and toilet duties for TasPWS... Edit: Rotor-Lift operate our Westpac rescue helicopters...

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[FLICKIT]

Wondering if it might be another helibiz safari?

To add to the above... It appears it was 8? local helicopters, a large part of the local fleet, they spent the day down around the Port Arthur - Safety Cove area, they drop off the trackers down there so it's not clear exactly where they landed... It may have been a large group of tourists or maybe a company day-out, or such...

Aircraft involved:
Helicopter Resources:
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHUUF
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHUUG
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHUUH
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHUUI
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHNVN
Rotor-Lift:
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHELF
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHELP
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHRLC
(Not all the aircraft are trackable, there may have been others)

Nothing suspect or to be concerned about I don't think...

[highercountry]

I couldn't find the original thread on this topic.
Just a follow-up from The ABC News Site a few days ago.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-11/helibiz-hecopter-stop-tasmania-noyhener-beach-rti-documents/104707688

"...When informed of the outcome by PWS, the tour organiser was critical of how the situation had played out publicly.

"This has been a real eye-opener to me on human behaviour," they wrote."

Yes, his own capacity for lying and the power of a large bank balance.
The human behaviour of a privileged few and an arrogant sense of entitlement.
What a load of BS.

[Biggles]

"I don't like the line about Aboriginal and other heritage being possibly damaged — I would take that out for now," the department's then-secretary Tim Baker wrote.

Just shocking.

As for an 'emergency landing' (16 choppers!?), wouldn't that trigger a formal investigation from CASA?
The whole thing does smack of exclusivity and privilege.

Meanwhile in Victoria, there is no shortage of vocal critics taking aim at the noise and downdraft and general repeated traffic of helicopters at the Twelve Apostles. That once beautiful, quiet and restful spot beside the road has been ruthlessly and relentlessly exploited to the point where I have refused to take visiting family there, instead showing people photographs of the way the Apostles were 30+ years ago.

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[johnw]

I couldn't find the original thread on this topic.

Here it is:
15 Helicopters land in the World Heritage Area

[north-north-west]

Yeah, the "emergency" claim was *&^%$#!. They were sightseeing. They shouldn't even have been flying over some of the land they did cross.

[Lophophaps]

The above four posts of 12 December 2024 were in another thread. These posts have been merged with the main thread. Several years on I'm still annoyed and the so-called emergency landing. The Twelve Apostles is another annoyance. What happened to quite nature?

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