Autumn best season for VFR touring Oz?

[bfato]

I'm a Brit hoping to visit sometime this year, rent a 172 for a month or so and go touring. I've searched and found some excellent advice here on stopovers and licence validation stuff but could do with some help deciding when to come.

Current plan is to start in Brisbane, then clockwise via Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, William Creek, Ayres Rock, Tennant Creek, Normanton, Cairns and finish back in Brisbane. Flying 2-300Nm legs, roughly every other morning.

I've read about the NT summer wet, and the humid spring build up to it. Since the winter days are shortest, I'm thinking the best time to would be March/April. Or is there more to it than that?

Would be a shame to have to come in your winter and miss what passes for a British summer...

[Bevan666]

Autumn weather is generally the best throughout australia. The air is clear, very stable and you have decent length days.

Go for it.

Bevan..

[Atlas Shrugged]

There was a similar thread a while back:

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=120292

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[bfato]

Thanks Bevan. Appreciate your advice and encouragement.

Thanks for the link Atlas. I had found that thread already and it contains a mine of useful info but just the one line on climate, and that was North QLD specific. Sorry if I didn't make my post clear enough but it's the when, not the where or the how, that I'm most unsure about. Cheers tho' :)

[Ultralights]

Try out some of these links, to weather averages across australia, hopefully they might help in planning.

average winds rose, for seasons

Wind rose average page (http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/wind/wrselect.shtml)

Average Sunlight hours across Oz

daylight hours (http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/climatology/sunshine_hours/sunhrs.shtml)

Average annual Thunder storms

map here (http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/climatology/thunder/thunder.shtml)

Average temperature maps, selectable seasons

temp maps (http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/map/anual_rainfall/index_tmp.shtml)

Average rainfall by month

rainfall maps (http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/map/median-rainfall/index.shtml)

hope all these help

[Swear Engine Twenty3]

Have to say the best 2 months for air touring in Oz are May And August...........

Close to bloody perfect:)

Come forth down under and enjoy...