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Old 3rd Jun 2009, 07:59
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.. and then you have Yarrowee .. a place with an approach procedure but no TAF and no aerodrome! LOL! Can anyone explain that one?
Yes, I can. The story goes that the navaid and approach procedure was installed to facilitate all weather flights into and out of a farming property that the former PM, Malcolm Fraser, used to own close by. Apparently, he spent a lot of time on this property and, being PM at the time, aircraft needed to be able to retrieve him from the property even under adverse weather conditions when PM duties demanded it.

That's what I was told many years ago, anyway.
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