Comment by defrost

  “At no time were RAAF Base Pearce’s flying operations impacted. 

I'm also a pilot .. that RAAF base is mostly low traffic and my reading of everything published is they scheduled the media event for dead time and didn't have to abort or turn anything about.

I'd go further and guess that had the base been required for anything (sudden emergancy landing, etc) the media event would have been shut down and pushed away.

None of which supports the hyperbolic aspects of the original GP claim above.