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Here is a read only link to the Aerodrome Database - WhichAerodrome.xlsx. Up to date as of 1/5/2019. Catching up slowly - up to May 2019 now (Mar 2020).
Here are some "rules" for Which Aerodrome. These are based upon the original suggestions from the very first thread, and have a few additions. Also please be patient as when you are active others may be asleep.
 Thanks to Self Loading Bear for suggesting that we use a wiki. Which Aerodrome I Which Aerodrome II nvubu. 
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Which Aerodrome Mk III
No volcanoes in Timor
However, your picture showed what could be the flanks of a volcano.What took you all over the archipelago? When I was in Jakarta, I never got further east than Bali.
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Work mainly - assisting tendering for contracts in places where the chance of success is..... limited ...
unless you are willing to risk incarceration under several pieces of Aussie, US & UK legistlation (and don't even mention Singapore Law)
But someone has to make the trips...................... and volunteers are hard to come by - they think it's over the edge of the world (and Dilli is pretty damn close TBH)
unless you are willing to risk incarceration under several pieces of Aussie, US & UK legistlation (and don't even mention Singapore Law)
But someone has to make the trips...................... and volunteers are hard to come by - they think it's over the edge of the world (and Dilli is pretty damn close TBH)
WPDL, Dili Timor Leste.
And open house.........
And open house.........
This aerodrome was used for regular tourist flights until a few years ago. It wasn't the main base for the company concerned, but the private strip of one of the company's two owners at the time. The main base was only a short distance away (as the crow flies), but a huge distance away by road (a long, long day's drive). Note the high-voltage power line crossing the runway about half-way along. As you have probably surmised, this is a one-way aerodrome. Takeoffs are always in the opposite direction to landings.
Are we on the "other" island, south of you?
West coast, Bro?
A few miles north of Franz? Mrs Sifty and I holidayed a couple of years ago in unzud and I'm sure there was a dead end strip advertising glacier flights that looked the same.
You're getting fairly warm, but you still haven't quite got it right.
It's quite a tough one if you aren't completely familiar with the area where the airstrip is. I'll give it another 24 hours or so and if nobody has named the airstrip, I'll post a further photograph with an aeroplane at the strip which will definitely give away who the operator is. But unless you've physically been there, you'll find it hard to name the exact spot.
But I will chuck in another bone now....here is a map showing the general area, although it is a fairly large-scale map.
It's quite a tough one if you aren't completely familiar with the area where the airstrip is. I'll give it another 24 hours or so and if nobody has named the airstrip, I'll post a further photograph with an aeroplane at the strip which will definitely give away who the operator is. But unless you've physically been there, you'll find it hard to name the exact spot.
But I will chuck in another bone now....here is a map showing the general area, although it is a fairly large-scale map.
I have driven much of Highway 6, but never flown in the area. Much fun in searching though, found lots of my sort of airstrip.
Anyway, I'm heading off now, travelling over to Wellington, then crossing Cook Strait to Marlborough early this evening....heading for Classic Fighters 2015 airshow over the next three days. I'll be online from time to time though, so I'll keep an eye on this thread.
Docherty Creek Road airstrip.
Chiarain.
Chiarain.
When that photograph was taken, it was owned by the late Alex Millar (CEO and joint owner of Mount Cook Ski Planes). That's his house you can see next to the strip. He preferred to live on the West Coast on the other side of the Southern Alps from the main operating base of his company, and was also one of the pilots on the West Coast side of the Southern Alps.
Here is a photograph of one of the Cessna 185 Skiplanes on the airstrip....
And here is an even closer map....you can see the airstrip alongside Docherty Creek Road on the lefthand side of the map. A short distance away is the main Franz Josef Glacier aerodrome....
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I flew in ZK-CBS, a Cessna 185A from Franz Josef airstrip, alongside the Waiho Flat Road to the Tasman Glacier, beneath the Tasman Saddle Hut , on 13th February 1999. Upon arrival there was another Cessna 185 on the glacier, ZK-ELQ/27, which departed to Mount Cook.
Which Cessna 185 is in your photo at Docherty Road airstrip?
Chiarain.
I have no photos, do you have any more from that part of the world?
Open House.
Which Cessna 185 is in your photo at Docherty Road airstrip?
Chiarain.
I have no photos, do you have any more from that part of the world?
Open House.
Last edited by Kieron Kirk; 2nd Apr 2015 at 11:48.
KK,
Well done. When I saw your post, I had GE open and pretty much centred on Docherty Creek Road, but at the scale I was looking at, the name obscured the strip!
Kiwithrottlejockey,
I'm envious of you going to Classic Fighters. Enjoy the show. If you know or meet Brett (Vampire pilot) or John Emeny, say hello from Simon.
Well done. When I saw your post, I had GE open and pretty much centred on Docherty Creek Road, but at the scale I was looking at, the name obscured the strip!
Kiwithrottlejockey,
I'm envious of you going to Classic Fighters. Enjoy the show. If you know or meet Brett (Vampire pilot) or John Emeny, say hello from Simon.
