ALWAYS REMEMBER to follow the advice of your CHIEF PILOT (unless he or she is a dodgy prick... safety-wise).
Wouldn't be the NT without a few dodgy
pr!cks!
Some advice:
- During the wet, as often as you can call a station or community and get someone to drive a ute over the runway and get a feel for it the better. Just don't always trust what they say. Quite often people will lie to you to get their mail!
- Other pilots are your friend, have a list of who operates where and give them a call if your at all unsure of the conditions in an area.
- Don't be afraid to make a low pass (remember the prec search?) of a strip your feeling sketchy about and to check for standing water, rivers through an end etc. If you need to land between bodies of water you can time distance along strip at say 120 kts to determine how much landing distance you have.
- As said before ALWAYS have multiple options, and carry a minimum of an hours gas in the tanks.
- Protect the nosewheel like its a newborn child.
- Can verify the ground effect take off method.
- Oh and i'm not saying this ever happened to me but the first stage of flap in a C210 can close a baggage door that flies open due to a 'loose' latch.
Keep safe out there.