Australian International AirShow 2005 photographs Tribute to my uncle Pat Dollisson who died 4/3/05. Travelling to the USA?Check out Stewart's problems with TSA in 11/04. Look at the Defence Air Show at RAAF Amberley 2004. Check out Caboolture Air Spectacular 2004 A tribute to my father, Group Captain Jack Dollisson, DFC, AFC, retired who passed away Saturday 6/12/03. Our 2003 New Zealand trip and photographs. Please note our aviation quiz - give it a go and tell your friends. Narrabri
trip 2003 click here. RAAF National Memorial Re-dedication 1/11/02 photographs of the flypast, aircraft details and more. |
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new this week The Celebration of Life will be held at Norwood Park Crematorium, Mitchell ACT at 10.30am on Thursday 2 September. A light luncheon will be served immediately after the service at Norwood. The family requests no flowers be sent but if you wish to do something on Mum's behalf please send a donation to the Royal Flying Doctor's Service. The formal notices should appear in today's Canberra Times and The Courier Mail newspapers. I'll try to get back into my normal mode of updating this site regularly once life returns to 'normal'. Thank you to all who sent their best wishes to Mum while she was with us. She is in a better place now. (28/7/10) It is a sad time for us. A close friend rang last night to tell us his baby sister (48) had died from a massive heart attack yesterday morning. Stewart was almost a member of this family during school years and he knew the daughter from age five. You don't expect those younger than yourself to die first, do you? Mum has been in Queanbeyan Hospital again for more than a week. She has been very sick. She is improving slowly and hopefully she will be out by the end of this week. This has kept me very busy racing back and forth to Queanbeyan, washing nighties and clothes, and trying to keep her spirits up. It is so boring being confined to bed for days on end. The TV is not real company, although Mum became interested in MasterChef. Thankfully I couldn't talk to her about this show as I've proudly not watched a single episode. More rain predicted for the rest of this week. Great for the ground water and Lake George, we can still see a shimmer of water out there. Some of our local properties will not be happy as they still have standing water from the last downpour. It will keep our tank filled and that's always welcome. (18/7/10) Time just flies bye. Mum has been in and out of hospital, off to the doctor and in need of lots of special care. My life isn't my own. I don't know how she copes with all the changes in her surroundings. She is so compliant and quiet. Why is life so cruel? Stewart has been able to spend some time with his music and FlightSim. Now he's working on AERO Australia issue 28. He's delighted with the response to the F-111 magazine. Someone has even put it (cover) on Facebook but we haven't looked as we don't use any of the social web sites. The rain has been fairly consistent over the winter months. Bungendore has even been flooded a couple of times recently, the lake is gradually filling and the ground water is building up. We even had to mow around the house recently as the grass was getting too long - most unusual for winter. All the water tanks in the region are full and that makes us all happy. All we need now is warmer weather, winter is too cold. We've had some really intense frosts which don't clear until after lunch. Bring on spring! (21/6/10 pm) I want to thank the lovely lady from Howard's Storage World at Fyshwick who went way beyond the expected this afternoon. I purchased two Elfa draw sets for Mum. This lady explained how to put them together, then said dhe would do it for me as they were for an elderly lady. She did that then carried them via trolley down to my car. I was able to just carry the frames into Mum's room, insert the drawers and put the tops on - job done. Now Mum can see her clothes making life easier for her. This is the second time I've received excellent service from this store. I wouldn't go anywhere else now. (21/6/10) If you have been disappointed the F-111 special magazine did not appear as advertised - it will be on sale this week through your local newsagent or you may purchase it direct from www.mymagazines.com.au or telephone 1300 361 146.
Stewart is taking a breather after completing both F-111 and AERO 27 at the same time. We got caught up in the deadline of another sister magazine, so Mat had three magazines to design and layout at the same time. He's a champion! You will be pleased to learn that Mum has finally left hospital and is back at her hostel. She needs lots of support and physio to recover from her massive bleed in the brain. Mum is delighted to be free of hospitals and back with lots of people around her for more stimulation. It was very boring being in a room alone for hours on end, day after day. We have a number of friends preparing for long trips to the UK for the air show season. Stewart would love to be going too. I believe a few more will be off to Oshkosh shortly - we envy them as this is such a wonderful event. We'll have to make do with the ADF air show at Williamtown in September and the F-111's final military air show. And Avalon is only just around the corner! I am still working on getting into the AERO Australia web site. I have the new software and am able to connect to the comany's server but I can't get onto the FTP programme once there. I hope it have this solved this week so AERO's site will be updated by the time the new issue is on sale. Fingers crossed! (20/5/10) Time has run away with me again. Mum has been in hospital for more than two weeks. She is recovering from brain surgery on Monday. Her rehabilitation will be lengthy. Her resolution to be well again is amazing. But I'm so tired of going to the hospital. Stewart has been busy getting the new F-111 magazine ready and working on the next issue of AERO. Chevron has so many magazines being prepared at the same time that our artist is finding it difficult to work to a plan. Stewart finds this frustrating but he should be used to it as it happens more often than not. Stewart works to the deadlines and others don't which throws all the scheduling and planning out. On my way to the hospital on Tuesday I saw a NSW Police Holden Commodore approaching me at warp speed, lights flashing and the attitude of the car made me smile. I though someone's having fun...until all the gravel hit my car's windscreen like bombs going off. The lovely new windscreen now has holes all over it. It gave me a huge shock. I learned later the police vehicle was 'chasing' another vehicle (unseen by me) which eventually crashed near our village. For once our fire brigade wasn't called to deal with the outcome! A friend is coming from Sydney today to see us. I hope he takes it easy in the pea soup fog that surrounds us. Fogs like this are normal for this time of year. If they clear before lunch then the day will be fine, if not it will be cold and miserable. I have been given a work around that should allow me to update AERO's web site. I haven't had time to work through all the steps and download the new software that will give me access to the new secure server. I want to get it done this week so you will all know the AERO site is back in business. Wish me luck. (24/4/10) We're at Griffith for the Antique Aeroplane Associaton's annual national fly-in. Surprise, surprise it's been raining since last night and we've all been drowned at some part of the day. At least the water has allowed aeroplanes and cars to be cleaned of locusts. The RAAF Roulettes were unable to leave East Sale due to icing above the clouds. This was a big disappointment for the local community. The Griffith airport is covered with market and food stalls. There is a real carnival feel to it - despite the rain. Around 150 aeroplanes arrived on Friday ahead of the weather. The public is able to view the aeroplanes in small groups escorted by an ASIC holder. This is the first time they've been able to mix with the aeroplanes. Maybe tomorrow will be better weather. The cooler temperatures should make the locusts go underground. We hope that's the case so the journey home is less messy. We received some sad news on the day after Easter Sunday. A good friend of ours took her life on Easter Sunday. It seems she felt she had boxed herself into a corner and could not face life any longer. If only she had reached out to her friends. Vale Paige, we'll miss your craxy telephone calls and irregular visits. It was good to have known you. (5/4/10) How was your Easter? Ours has been calm and quiet at home. We've spent time getting our garden tidy, most unusual to have Stewart in the garden. With two the work was done much quicker. This has been our last weekend of 'freedom' as Mum returns from Respite tomorrow. Last weekend's Open Day at Canberra Airport was brilliant. The airport staff was everywhere assisting you to park, find your way, check your baggage before going airside, and so on. They are to be congratulated on the organisation of this free event. Stewart didn't go with me and Mum as he'd had a call-out to JOC the night before. I was able to catch up with friends from HARS, FastJet, the Green Machine and Combat Dragon. Gary Criddle's display in the Dragonfly was much appreciated by the large crowd. Mum and I enjoyed a late lunch at the Central Cafe in Queanbeyan after the event. The greasy offerings at the airport didn't appeal to either of us. Plus we wanted to get out of the heat. I returned Mum to her respite centre before heading home to check the photographs. Easter weekend saw two major aviation events in the region; Warbirds Over Wakana in NZ and NATFLY ay Temora. AERO contributors attended both events so we look forward to hearing from them. April is the busiest month in the aviation year, a pity we can't attend all the events. Stewart has been flying the PC12 simulator this weekend. I wanted him to leave the computer turned off, but he said it was 'relaxing'. Even when the air traffic controller twice made him go around to allow a Cessna to land first at London! We hope you all had a relaxing a safe Easter. fl (24/3/10) I know, I know I keep promising to be more regular with updates but life gets in my way. Mum is in respite again so I may catch up with work and life. Stewart and I don't have busy social lives but it is interesting how hamstrung we feel not being able to just go to events that interest us. We did get a leave pass to attend the HARS Open Day at the Illawarra Regional Airport. It was a most enjoyable day, even including the later rain. We love catching up with fellow members of HARS and seeing the development of the building complex. The DC-4 was a welcome sight. The newest issue of AERO Australia is out and should be in the newsagents by the end of the week. Stewart has already completed all the text for his new special magazine, F-111 In RAAF Service which will be out by the 26th May. He has selected all the photographs and is almost done iwth the captions. So well organised you think? No, we've had no TV for weeks! Actually if Stewart wasn't so far advanced he would not be able to attend anything until the end of June. He is working on the next issue of AERO Australia, issue 27. They come around with regularity. Mind you he didn't think he'd get the last issue done as his less than one year old Dell top of the range computer spat its hard drive. Dell sent a technician two days later to put in a new hard drive and only install the operating system... Not good enough as we don't have time to reload and initiate all the programmes again, and load all the data. This is a major failing with computer suppliers. Their back-up is almost worthless. We will be at the Canberra Airport Open Day this coming Sunday. It should be a fun event with some intersting aircraft to delight the public. We expect to see lots of good friends there. We have an important wedding to attend the evening before, Gerard Frawley of Australian Aviation. We've known Gerard for such a long time and we're happy he's finally taking the plunge. Good luck to him and Kerrie. (22/1/10) Time has been short - carer duties take over. However I must put to bed rumours that have surfaced in Queensland (haven't heard it from any other place) that AERO Australia is broke. A friend was told this in mid-December at Archerfield. At that time AERO issue 25 (Jan-Mar 2010) was completed, printed and in distribution to the newsagents. AERO Australia is only a magazine title not a business. AERO is part of a large stable of magazines in a very successful publishing group. So whomever is spreading this false rumour please stop. Legal action will be taken if we hear any more comments of this type around the industry. AERO Australia's schedule is set for the whole of 2010 and part of 2011 - so you aren't rid of us at all. AERO Australia's web site has not been updated for months because our publisher has moved the hosting in-house and security issues need to be addressed before I will have outside access to its in-house system. Bear with us and soon it will be updated and back on track. We have a new Subaru Liberty Wagon to replace our stolen one. It is very different. Gearbox wise I'd prefer the old car, and I loathe the electronic park brake. A manual gearbox needs a manually operated handbrake. You drive a manual gearbox to have more driver control, not to have a motor control how you take off. I'm dreading my first steep hill start in Sydney traffic! This model is so much larger than my old girl. Inside and out it is longer, wider, higher and roomier. It handles beautifully - as Subaru owners expect from their cars. Stewart is busy with AERO issue 26 and a new 'special' magazine which will be out in May. He's on tenter hooks in this hot dry windy weather, especially today as our brigade has no truck drivers in the village. Hopefully tonight that will change, even better if we have no fires. (31/12/09) Happy New Year! We hope you all had a lovely Christmas with family and friends. Safe journey to all who may be travelling over this busy period. (29/12/09) We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. To the bastards who stole my Subaru from outside Canberra hospital, I hope you rot in hell. Fancy coming out of the hospital in the dark, your elderly mother sitting near the entrance doors while you race down the hill to collect the car, but it isn't there. As we live a long way from Canberra it was a concern that we may not find a taxi prepared to drive out and back to Canberra. Thankfully we got a taxi but didn't get home until 10.20pm and Mum was exhausted. Sadly my trusty well-loved car was trashed inside with alcohol, some even sprayed on the outsides. They bent the nearside rear quarter panel in two places, tore off the aerial, put two serious dents into both offside doors, broke all the steering column covers, even broke my mobile phone car kit, took my Sydney street directory and my good sunglasses, left scissors and rubber gloves in the car - and amazingly a single purple high heel! I reported the car stolen to the ACT police on Monday 21st just after 8.30pm and they found it abandoned in rural ACT before 1am. My biggest problem so close to Christmas was finding a smash shop to take the car. Luckily two Fyshwick businesses were workingover christmas to catch up with work, one took the car and has it well under control. Next Stewart's 'favourite' uncle died in Sydney on Christmas Eve, so that made us feel even less christmassy. Then Stewart hurt his back on Christmas day - what next we thought? Stewart drove to Sydney today for the funeral while I stayed home to care for Mum. Very good friends loaned us a car so I could take Mum to the medical centre today, and chase up a new car tomorrow. Mum needs constant medical cre and I need a car to transport her. You can't live out in the country without wheels. Times like this show you who your real friends are. Most people are wonderful and so helpful. No-one could believe anyone could be low enough to take a car from around a hospital. Low life people don't give a toss about anyone else only their own 'fun'. 2010 can't come soon enough for us. We wish you all a very happy and prosperous New Year. Take care if you are on the roads over this busy period. (13/12/09) Stewart is recovering from a small operation he had last Thursday. He has to avoid strenuous activity for two weeks at least. I picked him up on Friday morning from hospital in Canberra and we came directly home. Stewart went for a wander around the verandah and came back with the report on our enviro system. Obviously they'd come while I was out. Next he was excited because he heard (or thought he heard) two F-111s fly over to welcome him home. No ego here! We had lunch and he rested. Late afternoon while I was watering our pot plants Stewart was wandering again and found a note from a transport company under the mat near the front door. It said they had tried to deliver five boxes and they would now be available from Canberra Airport!!! Usually couriers leave the goods on our verandah as they know we won't be away long - and we know them. In fact, most ring first to check we'll be here. So now I have to go into Canberra and collect boxes that should have been delivered to me. Not impressed. People forget this isn't Sydney or Canberra and I find having to travel more than 100 kilometres to get something that was supposed to be delivered somewhat ridiculuous. It will cost me more than the original freight fee. Thankfully we are free of magazine deadlines for some time and Stewart may relax. We have my elderly mother arriving tomorrow to stay with us. She is very frail and not able to get around easily. We're hoping having her in a country atmosphere will help as that's what she's been used to for many decades. Like me she was a keen gardener and maybe I will be able to entice her into the garden, even get some help from her. We'll see. Thank you to those who have called to check on Stewart, he really appreciates your kindness. He even had visitors yesterday, but he kept dozing off while they were speaking to him. Not very good but they understood. He should settle down in a few days and be back to normal soon. Take care over the holiday period and have a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year. (5/12/09) What a week! Changes at the Federal politics level (new Opposition Leader) and now a new State Premier last night. I don't think anything can now save the NSW Labor government, the electorate is sick to death of them. However, the new Liberal Opposition Leader may be a good chance, at least he will take the fight to the government. The other guy just agreed with them and was not of appeal to the electorate. Thank heavens both Warbirds and now AERO are done. Stewart and Mat worked all night on Thursday because other people mucked them aorund and they were not able to have the magazine finished. It was finally 'over' at 3.30pm (for Stewart) on Friday but Mat still had to package it all up and ftp to the printer. Now we may relax for a while. I've had to take things easy for the last couple of days as I couldn't use my hands properly - either RSI or arthritis. I struggled to get things done earlier in the week but was annoyingly slow. Maybe now I can recover. Last weekend we went to HARS AGM and Christmas party. On the drive down Macquarie Pass we learned Mum was not well and considered turning around and heading directly to Sydney. My sister was waiting for a doctor to call - so we decided to continue and check again after the doctor had been. Thankfully things weren't dire so we decided to head north the following morning. The Christmas party was good, more attended than last year. We enjoyed good food and wonderful company (except for Timmsy). My only complaint was the band being way too loud, the music was good. We stayed at a Bed and Breakfast as the usual motel was booked out months ago. It was only two houses from the beach, very well appointed like a motel room. Sadly the bed was spring based and we kept rolling onto each other - so not much sleep. If the bed was better we'd stay there everytime we went to HARS but sleep is important. We drove to Sydney and spent many hours with Mum. She was up and tried her best to hold conversations with us all. My brother brought his young son over as it was his first birthday. Mum was happy to see him and he kept us all entertained. Eventually we left and headed home. My Subaru's clutch started making squealing noises just before we left the Hume highway and then all the way home. Naturally, when I took it to Subaru the following day it was silent! I'll have it thoroughly checked next week. I will need it to go to Sydney again soon to see Mum. We've had good value from both our cars but they are now old and carrying high kilometres. Time to move on. Sad to learn the NZ two-seater Spitfire has had a hard landing again so soon after its repairs from the first such landing. No-one was hurt that's the good part. We look forward to seeing it fly again soon. (25/11/09) The Telstra problems are continuing. How are ordinary Australians supposed to deal with this monster company which has no respect for its customers? Even Paul Sheehan of the Sydney Morning Herald has been through the Telstra wringer recently - his telephone service was cut off too. Telstra owes us $78.98 because it overcharged us on two consecutive bills. Instead of fixing the problem it has compounded it. We received yet another demand for payment or... I again went into Queanbeyan to the Telstra shop. The same young lady tried to sort it out. It would appear that the credit has been placed into an account we didn't even know we had at Telstra. Unfortunately this account has been closed by Telstra and the credit can't be retrieved. Solution? We pay the 'outstanding monies' and wait for Telstra to raise a cheque from the 'closed' account and post it to us. Would you believe this? I don't. I've paid the money (so we've paid twice in effect) and I'm to believe Telstra will send us a cheque... Why am I feeling cheated? Apart from fighting with Telstra we've been very busy trying to put together Warbirds of Australia and New Zealand and AERO Australia magazines. Stewart is wrung out but we see light at the end of the tunnel. Warbirds will go to press today and be on sale by 9 December. AERO should go next week... The Bungendore (Volunteer) Fire Brigade was one which sent people to fight fires around Rylstone. I get really aggro these days when the media reports the Rural Fire Service is fighting fires - it isn't. The people on the ground are almost all the volunteers (the government doen't like to use that word) and they belong to the NSW Rural Fire Brigades. The 'Service' is the fancy head office and its staff and all the top people in the local areas not the fire fighters. The Service directs things and organises training, vehicles, etc. That is my understand but I'm not a member. Before the last Federal election much fanfare was made of the announcement of a NEW Category One fire truck for Bungendore. Both the State Member (now State Emergency Services Minister) and the hopeful Labor (sic) candidate jointly made this announcement at our Emergency Services Building. More than twelve months later a trashed OLD Cat One Isuzu arrived. It was missing much of the vital equipment required for this to be our primary fire fighting unit. We should have removed our (paid for by our brigade) equipment from our old Isuzu before handing it on... Our members tried their best, along with the local RFS office in Queanbeyan to fix this NEW truck. Finally it was agreed this vehicle should be taken to an expert for assessment. It went to Gilbert & Roach in Sydney. G&R found the truck was seriously down on power, had been submerged in salt water for some time and it should be scrapped. Has either politician made any announcements about this disgraceful exercise? Most definitely not. They got their mileage and won the election. Bungendore is a very busy brigade. At the moment it is relying on Palerang One (a spare unit for this region to cover trucks in for service) for its primary fire fighting effort while we wait to see what turns up next. Supposedly it will be an Isuzu not more than five years old. For heavens sake, we all pay huge levies for fire on all our insurances and Council rates why can't we have a NEW truck as promised. Bungendore is a fast growing community. Most of the new growth comes from defence personnel and other government employees. We're only 30 kilometres from the nation's capital. Our VOLUNTEER fire brigade is the only service available to our large community in the case of fire. Our homes would be ash by the time paid professional fire teams arrived from either Queanbeyan or Canberra. I guess this nonsense is happening all over the State. Brigades are expected to do the impossible with old trucks and equipment. It is false economy and sadly will bite us in a way we won't want to face in a heavy fire season. I wish I could win the Lottery because I'd donate a brand new fully equiped fire truck to our local brigade - it would be so tied up in legalese the State Government couldn't take it from us. I'm off to mow our very long dry grass to remove a fire hazard. I don't want any fires here. The last close fire was Friday 13 March 1998 and I was here alone as Stewart was on duty in the old Fire shed. It came less than 400 metres of us but stopped a the road. It was a running grass fire - so the grass has to go. (1/11/09) We've had the week from hell. On Wednesday at 10.30am we found our telephones cut off. I've had numerous telephone conversations with Telstra's staff about problems with our account since July and nothing was being resolved. So this time I grabbed all the paperwork and my notes and drove into the Telstra shop in Queanbeyan. I wanted to deal with a perosn I could see. I have to say the Queanbeyan staff were fantastic. This is a franchise business not a Telstra owned shop, maybe that helped. They got into our account and saw the copious notes of my various complaints. Our account should have been on hold while Telstra decided if it would honour a credit due to us for overcharging. Somehow someone decided to cut us off over $56.73 ( and a further $20 credit due on the following account) credit that hadn't been put against our account. The person at Telstra accounts promised to reconnect our telephones within 24 hours - and without and additional fees as the disconnect was Telstra's fault not ours. The Queanbeyan person applied in writing for the credits due us to be approved and applied to our account. (Do you believe this process?) This was approved the following day. So I went home hoping the telephone would be working again before the close of the business day. Five o'clock, no phones. Thursday four pm still no phones, definitely more than 24 hours since the reconnect was approved. I rang the Queanbeyan store and the same helpful person rang accounts again. She was told the phones would be 'connected within 24 hours'. Where does Telstra measure its 24 hours from? At five pm a friend rang us. So obviously the telephone was back on but no-one from Telstra told us. Now I find the BigPond account is double what we contracted for, so back to Queanbeyan next week for them to do battle for me again. I should bill Telstra/BigPond for all the wasted hours and days just since 12 February this year. I I added the time wasted by Dell Computers I'd have a good outside income. Why aren't any of these companys responsible for their actions? We've not been offered any compensation by either Telstra or BigPond for the lost business because they'd cut us off or not got our modem working. If we had any other telecommunications available to us believe me we'd jump instantly. What happened to customer service? Stewart and I've just returned from the National Warbird Operator Safety Conference in Sydney. This was a very interesting event and more interested parties should attend. We attended the Australian Warbird Associaton Ltd AGM this morning before returning home. Sadly I could not avoid a Galah just near home. A group of three came through the bushes very low. I stood on the brakes and missed two but the lower bird hit mid windscreen and slip up and hit the edge of the screen and disappeared. We love these birds and wouldn't hurt one for any reason. I feel very flat now. We have thunder storms surrounding us now, it is very dark and now I can see the lightning. Time to logg off and turn the computer off. (21/10/09) Where have we been? Seriously ill or off air due to our ISP. I've decided 2009 can't end fast enough because I haven't been very well since Avalon (March). I've had enough of doctors who 'panic', specialists who don't give you enough information,being given a tablet that destroyed my stomach lining, too many blood tests that have resulted with me being very low in iron and vitamin B-12; and the icing on the cake catching the flu/head colds from sitting in waiting rooms. Naturally I passed the 'bug' onto Stewart but he's been able to throw it off much quicker than me. He can take medicines to assist while I can't. I think my body has decided that it is allergic or unhappy with all medicines. Very helpful. In the middle of this we managed to make a second visit to Temora to see the Sabre's first public flying display. What a wonderful sight. First we saw the Sabre flying by itself as the pilot was practising his display for the public flying weekend, then we watched it in formation with a Hornet from the same Squadron (top hat tail). This weekend proved most popular with the public, it was packed inside the Museum's enclosures. Well done to the Temora team as usual. We were rudely awakened at 5.52am yesterday when Stewart's fire pager started squawking. Hoons had stolen a car and set it alight on the edge of the village. At that hour it was easy to get a crew and attend the fire. Usually it is during the day while most members are away in Queanbeyan or Canberra working that he needs to find a crew. Thankfully we haven't had any serious fires this season... Anyone keen to assist us catch up with mowing and gardening? As I usually do this work and I've been unable to do anything for months it has got away from us. We've had good rain during spring so the grass (read weeds) have taken off. So we're going to try and give it a good hit this weekend, cut the grass, burn or pull weeds (spray cape weed) and cover the fruit tree and vegetable garden with mulch. They are predicting thunder storms for both days, hopefully they won't affect our work! If all goes well, we will have the second Warbirds of Oz and NZ magazine on sale by 9 December, and AERO Australia out by 16 December. So we've got lots to do over the next six weeks. We will be attending the Warbirds Safety Conference in Sydney 31 October and the HARS AGM and 30th anniversary celebrations at the end of November. (13/08/07) If you're visiting Brisbane please don't use Black & White Taxis. I rang their number to book a taxi to the airport. I was told by the 'troll' that they had my address and a car had been booked. Twenty minutes later I rang again to be told my call was logged and a car would be sent immediately. Ten minutes later (and an hour to my flight leaving) I was informed by an ignorant person that 'I' gave them the wrong address and shouldn't have used the automated system. I couldn't get a word in edgewise with this male person who hung up on me! Great, high and dry and less than a hour to make my flight. I grabbed the Yellow Pages and found Yellow Cabs, rang the number and waited until I reached a human voice. The lovely lady couldn't believe my experience, checked the address (correct) and sent the first cab she could find to me. Thankfully he was prompt and I caught my flight with no time to spare. Mum has removed Black & White's number from her telephone and replaced it with Yellow Cabs. Just proves my theory, you can't trust technology. If you know me I don't use ATMs, won't do transactions online and try to do most things the old and proven ways. I would be lucky to catch a taxi one or two times a year, usually one that pulls in front of you at an airport - so I don't have experience with automated systems. You can guess that I won't ever use them again, can't you! If you're looking for the latest AERO Australia this is what it looks like:
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