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Old 13th Jun 2020, 13:15
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At any number of mine strips back on the 80s in Qld and NT you would see Lears, Westwinds and Citations.
These strips did not have nav aids. GPS was not even heard off. Omega was in its infancy.
Visual at LSAT and a WAC on the lap.
Only daylight operations.
However we did have our moments with ATC and the dreaded "Operational Approval"

Statements like"but you cannot go there" when submitting a plan for a landing point that was a gravel strip.
"Why"
"Your a jet"
"Yes and a jet that has a gravel kit and a AFM supplement for operations on sod and gravel"

One classic reply from the ATC bloke behind the desk that was worried about putting his signature in the box at the bottom of the flight plan when told that we had an AFM Supplement for sod and gravel ops was "But you blokes from Qld will put anything in your AFM"


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