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Looks a bit like Rutland Plains?
I have been there but used the larger strip to the East. The smaller strip looked a bit too small for the aircraft and load I had on the day.
I have been there but used the larger strip to the East. The smaller strip looked a bit too small for the aircraft and load I had on the day.
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Thanks for that pic of GKA, tin. Lived there for 4 years as a kid and now I finally have a photo of the place.
By the way, GKY sends her love and says she is now too old for that type of flying.
By the way, GKY sends her love and says she is now too old for that type of flying.
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I prefer to call it "Encouraging the crocs, roos, pigs, cattle and horses to depart the general area".
Just re-read this post and you Aussies could have a field day!!
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Originally Posted by slackie
...with sheep on strips...
If you have to clear sheep, start from one side of the strip (usually the side with the least number to be shifted) and work them across to the main mob, leaving your strip clear. Do NOT split the mob into smaller mobs... they'll wait until you're nose-high in the flare before they decide to join their mates across the strip. Consequences are obvious.
Done properly, there's no reason any should be sufficiently spooked to get jammed up in fences. If one or two do get that way, do the decent thing and go sort them out.
Cattle beast can behave unpredictably too I believe... a long time ago I knew a pilot that had been thru 3 of them... on seperate occasions. No experience of them myself so somebody else may be able to advise how best to handle them.
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Hmm, Ozexpat and Torres after a Pprune bash if what I heard was correct! Still extremely p****d off that I missed it!
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Looks like a Jaba and a Doc to me.
Where is YMOR? Moree? Dunno...
If you don't have "flight director" or some other flight planning software, where can you find a list of all the Australian destination abbreviations?
Cheers,
YMAY
Where is YMOR? Moree? Dunno...
If you don't have "flight director" or some other flight planning software, where can you find a list of all the Australian destination abbreviations?
Cheers,
YMAY
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Originally Posted by ABX
...where can you find a list of all the Australian destination abbreviations?
Can you show us your camera mounting gear?
DSJ, if I show it to you I can not accept responsibility for your safety. Its a highly sophisticated gyrostabilised camera mount that I souvenired from the military!
Dr
PS: Well actually, its a velcro-anchored, electrician's tape stabilised something that I knocked up enroute to Rutland Plains (Yes, Two Dogs - you were correct!), cause it occurred to me that I might just end up as croc poo if I tried to take pics while flying that approach. I took it with a Sony Cybershot digital camera set on high quality video. Managed to find some velcro dots in the side pocket of the aeroplane and velcroed the bottom of the camera to the top of the dash. Then I used two pieces of electrician's insulation tape to brace the camera fore and aft so that it was aimed in the right spot. I then just started the camera and flew the run up the strip and from the base turn to touch down.
It worked well, but you can see that it was a bit unsteady because the strip is NOT as rough as it looks after I touched down - the camera just wobbled around on my makeshift mount.
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ABX
For placenames (Oz and farther afield), you can try World Aeronautical Database or just Google it.
By the way, has your non de plume any reference to a certain Aztec used around the Whitsundays in days of yore?
Cheers
By the way, has your non de plume any reference to a certain Aztec used around the Whitsundays in days of yore?
Cheers
