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Is this him?THE DAILY TELEGRAPH TRIBUTES

WILHELMI, Troy Tragically taken from us on the 5th November, 2016, aged 46. A loving & devoted husband, father, son, brother, uncle and friend. In His Saviour's Arms Family & friends of TROY are warmly invited to attend his Funeral Service to be held at St John's Anglican Church, Menangle Road, Camden on Monday, 21st November, 2016 commencing at 2pm. In lieu of floral tributes please consider a donation to the Wilhelmi's children's education. You can contact Narelle on 0410-564-733.

 

 

ATSB report Investigation: AO-2016-146 - Collision with terrain involving Air Tractor AT-502, VH-LIK, near Walgett, NSW on 5 November 2016

 

The ATSB is investigating a fatal aircraft accident involving an Air Tractor AT-502 registered VH-LIK, that occurred near Walgett, NSW on 5 November 2016. The aircraft collided with terrain while conducting spraying operations. The pilot was the sole occupant.

 

 

Go Fund Me Click here to support Wilhelmi Family Support Fund by Narelle Cook

 

On Saturday the 5th of November 2016 the Wilhelmi family was changed forever.

 

The loss of Troy Wilhemi has shocked family, friends, work colleagues and the community. Tragically Troy was killed in an unforeseen aeroplane accident while crop dusting. He has left behind his wife Simone and their adoring 8 children, with a newborn 9 week old baby. He was the 'sole bread winner' for the whole family. The money will be used to assist with paying off the family's mortgage and to help with the children's education fund.

Yes. I flew as a freelance (part-timer) CPL with STOL, SPAC, and Airfast from 65-70. Knew most of the crew you've given plus a few more....... Bill Moore, Ian Smith, Noel Roediger, Phil Chittock, Charlie Long....... PM me if you like. RB

Then with airfast/HUPL on UND,RHT,CYX,IAH,IAP,UNH,UNF,FRB,CRS,IAN,IAO

Crowley..CSF,RBO,CSC,CSD,,ELF,DFQ,

Taken from my log book.

Ray Fisk was the Stol manager at Daru.............Alan Vial at HUPL........Mac DREW at Crowley.

This seems to relatePilot injured in plane crash in WA's south

ATSB ref:

 

Investigation number: AO-2016-118

Hi OP, welcome.I was in PNG 68-69, not as a pilot though

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G'day OPI was in PNG 66-73. Saw a Helio Courier with a broken back - at Moresby I think. Was that you?

Anyone know what a/c and how the crash occurred with this great pilot??

Anyone flying in PNG around 1966-1970 ??? Loopy Len Cleaver, Ian Best, Deadly Dudley, Ross Mckain,Steve and Phil Barnett...............Stolair.........Crowley............others ???

OP. You beat me by a couple of years (or three) Bankstown was an allover field when I first flew there from Newcastle (District Park which was a rather small aerodrome dimensionally) A few visitors didn't actually get to land things like an Auster. There..(an Auster .. Can you believe that? When you are used to them, two tennis courts would be enough) This guy came up from Sydney, on one notable occasion and had about 20 goes at landing and actually got the wheels on the ground a couple of times, and then gave up and went back to Sydney. So the place was pretty small.My first landing at Bankstown, Being used to Newcastle I came in low over the Royal aero clubhouse and put the Chippie down as I'm used to and pulled up just short of the gable marker, which was the aerodrome boundary. I hadn't even used the aerodrome. Embarrassing. I hadn't thought of gable markers and some of the grass not being an aerodrome. Anyhow I taxied in and parked where an engineer came over and said. "It's easy to work out where YOU came from". I had never been to anyplace much but Rutherford and District Park and had bugger all hours up. Funny looking back on it. Nev

My wife still has two lights on the headboard of our bed, green light is Clear to land and the red one is for Runway out of action do not approach.Alan.

Was offered a job flying them in Vietnam by Air America..............no thanks..............not sure how many were shot down, but they made easy targets because they were able to fly so slow.

Flying into a Air show having radio failure yep that green light came but I had a comited landing on the grass when I seen itKnew what it ment Neil

[ATTACH=full]47209[/ATTACH]Air traffic controllers still have signal lights.

OP, I'm guessing you have loads of tales to share, and we'd be delighted to hear them. Just one word of advice though, all CAPITALS is considered as SHOUTING so please hit your Caps Lock button before you start 'filling us in'. Cheers mate.

I've used both light signals and pyrotechnics, but young enough to have only used them when there were radio problems.

HOW MANY OF YOU WERE FLYING BEFORE RADIO WAS INTRODUCED ?? EVERYTHING ON THE GROUND AND IN THE AIR WAS DONE WITH LIGHT SIGNALS

HI.........AS A NEW MEMBER I'M STILL A LITTLE UNSURE HOW TO POST, AS IT APPEARS I AM GETTING 2 LOTS OF DETAILS AT ONCE............ANYHOW, I'M 78, STILL HAVE MY COMMERCIAL LICENCE.HEAPS OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA EXPERIENCE AND WAS THE FIRST PERSON IN THE WORLDE TO PRANG A HELIO COURIER !!