Hi Whirly,
I flew out of Cairns in late September a couple of years ago, and it was great - good weather and vis and great scenery. I was still a student at the time, so flew with an instructor from the North Queensland Aero Club. We had a wonderful flight up the coast to Port Douglas then out over the Great Barrier Reef - spectacular!
The club is small but friendly and looking at the noticeboard I saw that they organised fly outs to other towns and islands. They had Cessnas when I was there, C150s and C172s, I flew with a very good instructor called Matt Christensen, but I expect he's moved on by now and probably flying for Qantas or something.
Contact details:
www.nqaeroclub.com.au Tel: (07) 4035 9438
email:
[email protected]
Have fun.
Cheers
Marian