Autumn best season for VFR touring Oz?
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Autumn best season for VFR touring Oz?
I'm a Brit hoping to visit sometime this year, rent a 172 for a month or so and go touring. I've searched and found some excellent advice here on stopovers and licence validation stuff but could do with some help deciding when to come.
Current plan is to start in Brisbane, then clockwise via Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, William Creek, Ayres Rock, Tennant Creek, Normanton, Cairns and finish back in Brisbane. Flying 2-300Nm legs, roughly every other morning.
I've read about the NT summer wet, and the humid spring build up to it. Since the winter days are shortest, I'm thinking the best time to would be March/April. Or is there more to it than that?
Would be a shame to have to come in your winter and miss what passes for a British summer...
Current plan is to start in Brisbane, then clockwise via Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, William Creek, Ayres Rock, Tennant Creek, Normanton, Cairns and finish back in Brisbane. Flying 2-300Nm legs, roughly every other morning.
I've read about the NT summer wet, and the humid spring build up to it. Since the winter days are shortest, I'm thinking the best time to would be March/April. Or is there more to it than that?
Would be a shame to have to come in your winter and miss what passes for a British summer...
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Thanks Bevan. Appreciate your advice and encouragement.
Thanks for the link Atlas. I had found that thread already and it contains a mine of useful info but just the one line on climate, and that was North QLD specific. Sorry if I didn't make my post clear enough but it's the when, not the where or the how, that I'm most unsure about. Cheers tho'
Thanks for the link Atlas. I had found that thread already and it contains a mine of useful info but just the one line on climate, and that was North QLD specific. Sorry if I didn't make my post clear enough but it's the when, not the where or the how, that I'm most unsure about. Cheers tho'
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Try out some of these links, to weather averages across australia, hopefully they might help in planning.
average winds rose, for seasons
Wind rose average page
Average Sunlight hours across Oz
daylight hours
Average annual Thunder storms
map here
Average temperature maps, selectable seasons
temp maps
Average rainfall by month
rainfall maps
hope all these help
average winds rose, for seasons
Wind rose average page
Average Sunlight hours across Oz
daylight hours
Average annual Thunder storms
map here
Average temperature maps, selectable seasons
temp maps
Average rainfall by month
rainfall maps
hope all these help