You Know The Airstrip Is Wet When........

[Sunfish]

......when the owners Range Rover is bogged up to the axles in the middle.

I wish we could send the rain and snow we have had so far this week to our brethren further North. If it keeps up though, we should have masses of hay to send to NSW by Christmas.

[wishiwasupthere]

Cool story.

[sms777]

What story?......Where?

[Squawk7700]

What story?......Where?


Maybe if the runway was bitumen that might make more of a story.

[DeltaT]

...you land and think you have the park brake on

[holdingagain]

When you get there, if the car meeting you is 90 degrees to the runway, don’t land, divert to “x” as the strip is too wet.
Arrived, car parked parallel to strip = strip dry. On downwind I can see surface water reflections so divert to x.
Outcome the car was bogged. Let’s hope some droughties cars get bogged this weekend.

[ehwatezedoing]

I think I have an Arctic winter Canadian version of that.
You know you don't really need to check your destination's runway snow covering condition when:
There is only one snow plower in town and....You are the one carry its needed part in a Twin Otter to repair it.

[Section28- BE]

" If it keeps up though, we should have masses of hay to send to NSW by Christmas."

Good/Fantastic work Sunfish- should, it keep going.............. Once you have fed NSW- you may care to have a look at the middle of QLD- West of the Range, as your next challenge...???? only doing year #7 there.......!!!!, I believe.

Well done.
Rgds
S28- BE

[Sunfish]

all locals already donating hay. my 29 rounds may go too if they are judged not spoiled too much

[Pilotette]

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[Ixixly]

Bet it pulled up pretty quick though Pilotette! :ok:

[Pilotette]

Bet it pulled up pretty quick though Pilotette! :ok:
More STOL than Draco :}

[IFEZ]

Awesome shot Pilotette..! Location..?

[Sunfish]

Pilotette does that Cessna Caravan have a high/low ratio gearbox, lockable diffs and 3WD?

[Pilotette]

Awesome shot Pilotette..! Location..?
Mitchell Plateau in the Kimberley. Part of the strip always floods during the wet, this was that part :uhoh:

[Pilotette]

Pilotette does that Cessna Caravan have a high/low ratio gearbox, lockable diffs and 3WD?
Haha Sunfish, it needed all that plus a Snorkel!

[apache]

A/ it takes 30in/hg to taxi out
B/ the props are tinged green from the landing.
C/ the guy who really really really wants his mail won’t give a definitive answer(dry) as to the state of his strip.
D/ the windsock has blown off the pole and is Lying in a puddle near the strip.
E/ the engines are flooded..... and not by Avgas.

[ShyTorque]

I once landed on a jungle helipad in Belize and had to wade through two feet of water* to get to the radio room to get a message to the intended destination to say we'd had to divert due to their bad weather.

*we had expected to walk across a football pitch.

[Flingwing47]

In PNG an American Priest sending a strip report on HF early one morning
- with a broad southern accent
" Maprik is wet and slippery"

[outnabout]

Pilotette, is this why you get paid the big bucks?

:-)

[ContactMeNow]

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BAS C208, say no more....:=

[Captain Dart]

The runway wasn't wet, but the climb-out was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOgrcuJVy-s

[Pilotette]

Pilotette, is this why you get paid the big bucks?

:-)

:} Hahaha not me!

[FL235]

My wetest arrrival put streamers of weed on the aerial to fin attachment of PYY. Part of another tall tale. Pity no phtographer on hand.

[Pinky the pilot]

C/ the guy who really really really wants his mail won’t give a definitive answer(dry) as to the state of his strip.

Ahh yes, Apache. A certain strip just a bit south of Bedourie, yes?:D;)