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12 May 2015
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5973 6424 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Turning heads: Mornington Secondary College students Jodie Kerr, Katie Bullock, and Carly Hogg have no problems catering to this customer’s wishes when being given a few pointers by Alicia from Studio Hairdressing Academy. Picture: Yanni
Expo gives students inside view of jobs JOBS and careers of all sorts were the focus of last week’s Frankston Mornington Peninsula Careers and Jobs Expo at Mornington Racecourse. The event was designed to help the students and school leavers make informed decisions on their futures. It showed them what jobs were on offer, what skills and abilities were required, and how they should go about getting into them. Expert information and advice is regarded as the most important thing when planning young peoples’ careers - or a career changes. The event’s focus on interactivity saw many hands-on activities offered, including a tyre change pit-stop challenge, fitness tutorials, barista workshop, brick laying, building and plumbing. Hands-on demonstrations and ‘Try a trade’ stalls were put on by some of the 80 exhibitors. Experts from Chisholm Tafe, Monash and Deakin universities, Peninsula Health, Australian Institute of Personal Training, and Department of Health and Human Services were represented. This was the first year Mornington Peninsula Shire and Frankston City Council have co presented a joint careers expo.
Radio breaks blamed for near miss Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au A BREAKDOWN in radio communications has been blamed for a near head-on collision in January by two planes taking off from Tyabb airfield. Each plane had to veer away just after taking off from opposite ends of the same runway. Investigators have found that neither pilot heard that the other was about to
use the runway and the club says it remains a mystery why their respective radio broadcasts were not received. However, a bystander hearing both broadcasts on a hand-held radio quickly sounded the alarm, but that too was not heard by either pilot. A student pilot in one of the planes - broadcasting “rolling runway 35� at the same time - “may have overtransmitted the call�, Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigators have found.
While the pilots elected to veer left to avoid collision, regulations state they should turn right. Peninsula Aero Club vice-president Jack Vevers said radio problems were “the root cause� of the incident. These are being investigated. He confirmed the pilots’ evasive action was reasonable in the circumstances and “worked out well�. The near disaster occurred about 2pm on 2 January when the pilot of a Starduster SA300 aircraft began pre-
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flight preparations for a local private flight. Unknown to him, a Cessna 152 was moving towards the other end of the same runway (No. 17) - and would soon be pointing straight at him. An safety bureau investigation – concluded on 22 April – found the Starduster pilot had followed airfield procedures on the calm day and used runway 17, which he confirmed on the usual common traffic advisory radio frequency. At about the same time, an instructor and student pilot in the Cess-
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na radioed that they were about to use runway 35 – the other end of the same runway - but the pilot of the Starduster did not hear that broadcast, nor see the Cessna at the time. Taxiing to runway 35, the student pilot broadcast he was lining up and getting ready to go. The pilot of the Starduster did not hear him and was by then at runway 17 where he broadcast that he was lining up and about to depart. The pilots of the Cessna did not hear him, either. Continued Page 10
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