Where have you been based during your career?

[Sheep Guts]

This may have been done previously. Thought it was getting a bit quiet on Dunnunda. I myself have only been flying for a living since 1994, heres my collection. Mostly all over at least 1 month duration.

Australia
Maud Creek Airstrip Katherine Gorge N.T.(2 occasions)
Tindal Airport Katherine N.T.( three occasions)
Darwin Airport N.T. (on several occasions)
Oenpelli Arhnemland N.T.
Halls Creek W.A.
Ngukurr Arhnemland N.T.
Nhullunbuy,Gove Airort Arhnemland N.T.
Smith Point Coburg Peninsula N.T. ( short stint)

Overseas
Tapachula ,Chiapas MEXICO
Tocumen Airport, Panama City,PANAMA
Manly Airport, Kingston JAMAICA
Sangster Airport, Montego Bay JAMAICA

Just realised this may compromise some people's anomymity (spelling). My appologies to those who may be affected, I myself am a quite conspicous chap.


:D :D

[High Altitude]

What I wanna know is what kinda pr*ck sent you to half of those locations?:)

As for me...

Daly River Mission (182)
Oenpelli (206)
Wave Hill Station (The hardest job thus far)
Darwintown.

In the future...

[Pinky the pilot]

Moomba Gas Field
then

Port Moresby PNG
Kerema PNG (a malarial swamp of a place!)
Moresby again.
followed by

Lindsay Point Vic. (flying a Piper Archer chasing crows out of almond orchards- this is not a joke!)

back to Port Moresby and Madang.
then
Waikerie SA (glider towing)

Takikawa, Hokkaido Japan (also glider towing)
now back in Waikerie, driving to Adelaide for occasional part time Pa-31 work.

[Lorry Longrass]

Who really cares were you guys have been based!! Is it just a way of letting everyone know how good you are???

[High Altitude]

Well Mr Lorry go back to the long grass...

Me tinks its more a way of showing everyone which way careers have been developed, great for wannabes to see what people have been through, etc... from the cadet through to the GA veteran. I've seen blokes go from meat bombing to Qantas so I know I for one am interested in the thread.

Now go get back in the 207 and do another lap of Jim Jim falls or better yet go for a swim in Sandy billabong...

[18-Wheeler]

Takes a deep breath ....
Coolangatta
Griffith
Brisbane
Cairns
Sydney
Melbourne
Auckland
Manchester
Gatwick
Algiers
Jeddah
Paris
Glasgow
Lagos.

[Tankengine]

20 years worth,
Warwick
Toowoomba
Kingaroy
Goondiwindi
Maroochydore
Wondai
Archerfield
Coolangatta
Sydney

Maybe one day make it back to Q!:D

[Lorry Longrass]

Sorry H.A. try again mate not a scenic pilot... nor have i ever set foot in a 207:D

[Capt Claret]

Cesspit '83 - '84
Cesspit '86 - '87
Bundaberg '87 - '88
Gladstone '88
Bundaberg '88 - '91
Dubbo '91
Brisbane '91 - '93
Darwin '94
Katherine '94
Brisbane '94
Katherine '94
Darwin '95 - '97
Perth '97 - '99
Darwin '99 >

[eggs]

Pinky
You got to spend time at Lindsay Point, good to see somebody did some work in Vic.

Have landed at Lindsay Point on severial occasions and fly over it regularly looking for fires.

Oh where have I been Swan Hill.........got to get away!!

[hoss]

Derby,Broome,Derby,Broome(charter),Cairns,Horn Island,Broome(coastwatch),Melbourne,Adelaide,Wagga Wagga,Sydney,Melbourne,Canberra(kendell),Sydney(Qantaslink).

and I only worked for 3 companies, something about being versatile? ;)

loved every minute of it, Hoss

[Aussiebert]

excellent topic, hope the replies continue to come in. would be interesting to see what people were doing in these places too

[Chimbu chuckles]

Kundiawa,
Lae,
Wau,
Port Moresby,
Rabaul,
Hoskins,
Kavieng,
Madang,
Cairns,
Darwin,
Singapore.

Chuck.

[The Gimp]

Cessnock
Saipan
Guam
Dubbo
Guam
Thursday Island
Cairns
Noumea
Cairns

[redsnail]

Sydney
Kununurra
Broome
Cairns
Sydney

Coventry
Luton
(lived in a couple of places apart from Cov and Luton but wasn't 'studying/working')
Want to live in Scotland or Queensland.

[CRY HAVOC]

CESSNOCK
PORT HEDLAND
MT ISA
LAE
VANIMO
WEWAK
RABAUL
TABUBIL
LAE
PORT MORESBY
ABU DHABI
NAIROBI
LOKI
KHARTOUM
NAIROBI
ANGOLA
YEMAN
LOKI
D.R o CONGO
NFD KENYA/SOMALIA-( THEN I STOPPED HAVING FUN AND GREW UP)
THE UK

[Sheep Guts]

Great responses everyone!:D

What happened in Somalia CRY HAVOC ? Hope you had a flack jacket when you were there...:(

Redsnail Scotland is close to my heart aswell, born in Dundee myself, from glen to glen........Sorry I wont break into verse:p

Looks like heaps of Aussies through Port Morseby, pretty dangerous I hear these days.

Thanks again , keep it up all, very interesting, by the looks I have some more travelling to do to equal some of you .

:D

[404 Titan]

Cairns
Port Moresby
Daru
Cairns
Hong Kong
:p

[Tinstaafl]

Flying work:

Brisbane
Roma
Coolangatta
Katherine
Quirindi
Tamworth
Sydney
Shetland


Training places have also included Armidale, Caloundra, Phoenix, London (studying while converting licence/working while looking for a flying job) & Perth (Scotland, not WA :p )

[compressor stall]

Essendon
Batchelor
Timber Creek
Darwin
Halls Creek (short stint)
Gove (short stint)
Katherine
Darwin
Cairns

[Nil defects]

Roy Hill Station
Wittenoom
Paraburdoo
Port Hedland
Derby
Kununurra
Carnarvon
Melbourne
Sydney
Perth
Paris
Amsterdam
Dubai

next move: Oz hopefully one day

[ITCZ]

Adelaide
Darwin
Gove
Elcho Island
Lake Evella
Elcho Island
Ramingining
Elcho Island
Alice Springs
Katherine
Darwin

Finally got a job in an aeroplane that doesn't fit into Elcho Island. :)

[...still single]

Sheep Guts,
Top post! :D
Some of these people have a life! ... must get one myself someday.;)

[Capt Claret]

If you check the RTOWs closely, you might find that smile gets wiped from your face! :p

AND the RWY at YELD IS wide enough!!! :eek:

[Kubin rock climber]

Cairns - God's own country

Violet Vale - Near Musgrave central Cape York

Cloncurry - Cold beers and big steaks at the PO. Necta!

Bulloo Downs - (SW Qld) "Hey pilot wheel dem bullocks this a way"

Weipa - Great fishin. No chicks, too many angry miners.

Horn Island - CRAZY! Excellent rock climbing (bring ya first aid)

Cairns - Home again

Townsville - We're goin to the mad cow shaggs, bring Fat Cat and lowe !

Sydney - IMHO best seen from jump seat on way to Paris!


And all going well back to cs very soon. :D

[nungry]

Without giving too much away -

Kubin
Bamaga
Horn Island
St Vincent
Grenada
St Lucia
Cairns


I knew that someday I'd make it to Cairns - just took the scenic route, thats all!!:D

[skychaser]

Kublin Rock Climber. I used to live out Bulloo Downs way. Was Jack the station Manager when you were there? I had a Christmas never forgotten out there. What a place.

[Kubin rock climber]

SC

No jack when i was there in 97. But we did have a nasty camp cook called Cheryl who spent her whole life in Thargomindah and has never seen the sea. Also a whole gang of cattle throwin, ugly shelia r@@tin and warm beer drinkin ringers to keep me amused. :D

Spent a fair bit of time at Nappa Merrie (site of the dig tree near Innaminca for those who don't sabe) and that was great too. Best fun flying I've ever had.

[v1rotate]

Very short list but here it is:

Hinton-In-The-Hedges (North of London C206)
Edinburgh (F27)

Hoping to add Melbourne to the list someday!

[clear to land]

Since 1988:
Maroochydore
Gladstone
Emerald
Dubbo
Orange
Innisfail
Caloundra
Mt Isa
Caloundra
Gove(2 yrs!)
Melbourne
Canberra
Oakey
Townsville
Darwin
Toowoomba
Darwin
Charleville
Cairns
Townsville
Brisbane (finally a Jet!) :D

[Razor]

Oakey
Melbourne
Tamworth
Sydney
Mount Isa
Cairns
Sydney

[Richo]

Good topic Sheepguts, must have crossed paths somewhere?

RPPL 1981, PPL 1982 RACWA

then RAAF for a few years in Darwin, but on the weekends;
Northern Aust. Gliding club towing in Pawnee
Darwin Parachute Club, dropping in 182

Jandakot 1990 - CPL, IFR & G3 RACWA

Darwin 1991 - Wimray and DAC (Pa28,32,34 210)

Batchelor 1991/2- BAS (182,210)

Jandakot1992 - RACWA, Flight seeing Tours, Royal Aero Charter
(Most notable DH82 [500+ hours] DHC1, c208, c310, PN68)

South West WA 1994 - Conservation and land man., fire spotting
(Pa18, Eagle XTS)

Horn Is 1997 - UZU (Bn2,c208,206)

JT-1998 RACWA (same old stuff)

Wyndham 1998-Ordair(206, B58,402)

Alice Springs 1999-Chartair (210,402, 55)

Darwin 2000-Pearl Av (B200)

Perth 2002-Pearl Av (M23)

Met some fantastic people along the way, and some others that I learnt a lot from. Most notable are ; Maxine at Ord (lovely person), Roger at RACWA a real pro, Ed Plenty DAC, Bob (torres) fullofit, Delsie, and "V" and gash.

[iridium]

Darwin (chucking bags, no flying unfortunately)
Avalon/Pt Cook - NOT RMIT
Gove - 2 1/2 years
Cairns (looking for work)
Kalgoorlie
Karratha (1 year today!! - I don't know whether to laugh or cry)

[cleatus]

Walhollow Station(Northern Territory) C-182 & C-206

Lake Nash Station(Northern Territory)C-182

Kokopo, PNG, BN-2

Horn Island, Uzu Air(Torres Strait Airlines)C-208, BN-2, & the moneymaker(C-206)

Horn Island, Northern Air Services, AC-50 & BN-2

Madang & Lae, PNG, EMB-110

Its the people you meet & places you go that makes it all worth while.

[The Strez]

Hey Iridium....heard u were going to be flying the C90 soon!! Guess thats gotta put a smile on ya face?? Better than that cleaning job you had back in Cairns!! :D

Adelaide
Lindsay Point (east of Renmark)
Tandou Station (south of Broken Hill)
Innamincka Station (were Bourke and Wills kicked the bucket)
Horn Island
Cairns
Derby

[Sheep Guts]

Richo we may of just missed each other, I arrived in Halls Creek (Hells Cr*ck) in Jan 1999 then left in early March( C310R ), did you know any Kingfischer Pilots? I knew Nugget from Ord Air hes now in ChowMein Country the lucky ******.:D

Keep up the posts guys very interesting. I think Aussie Pilots would have to be the most travelled, buy the looks of things.:)

Regards
Sheep

[Selandia Baru]

North Shore
Ardmore
Hamilton
Auckland
Christchurch
Basel (Switzerland)
Darwin
Newcastle (on Tyne)
Sydney
Jakarta
Sydney

[VBitter]

Alotau
Brisbane
Emerald
Gladstone
Madang
Mt Hagen
Port Moresby
Tabubil
Vanimo
Rockhampton
Wewak

[VMCA]

Maroochydore
Cooinda
Jabiru
Darwin
Townsville
Adelaide
Canberra
Brisbane
:D

[ladbroke]

Halls Creek
Kunnanuura
Carnarvon
Elcho Island
Cairns
Newcastle
Aberdeen (Scotland)
Edinburgh (Scotland)

[captain69]

G'day Richo,
I never thought a Super Cub could fly with your mass down the back as well as mine up the front but it did, Just. manji- JT.

G'day Shaggs,

Baidoa
Bujumburra
Kismayou
Yambio
Lokichoggio
Mombassa
Nairobi
Beletweyne
Djibouti
Kigali