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Lake Forktailed Dr Killer (19o 08' S 131o 40' E)
The orange line is the GPS snail trail of my track. I flew between these two lakes on a westerly heading.
This is the one on the left (marked on the WAC) - taken out the left window.
and this is the newly discovered and named Lake Forktailed Doctor Killer on the right - taken out the right window just after the picture above was taken.
Dr
Lake Forktailed Dr Killer (19o 08' S 131o 40' E)
The orange line is the GPS snail trail of my track. I flew between these two lakes on a westerly heading.
This is the one on the left (marked on the WAC) - taken out the left window.
and this is the newly discovered and named Lake Forktailed Doctor Killer on the right - taken out the right window just after the picture above was taken.
Dr
SmokinHole - I should'a stuck it (the camera!) out a bit more and got the side of the aeroplane but I didn't want to drop the bloody thing. Apart from the loss of the camera, it would be just my luck if it hit some ringer on the head and I got sued!
XXX, Brisbane Centre - did you drop a camera out of your aeroplane while over the middle of the Barkly's? Ah Centre, XXX, nooooooo, wasn't me!
Dr
XXX, Brisbane Centre - did you drop a camera out of your aeroplane while over the middle of the Barkly's? Ah Centre, XXX, nooooooo, wasn't me!
Dr
Tail-take-off - great snaps!
And you too, FTDK...did you experience camera buffet?
And you too, FTDK...did you experience camera buffet?
A good lesson for newbies flying in the outback. Shame GPS has taken the skill (and anxiety!) out of it. 
And now for something completely different...
And now for something completely different...
"A good lesson for newbies flying in the outback. Shame GPS has taken the skill (and anxiety!) out of it."
CS - That's a very good point but that particular track (Tennant Ck to Broome direct) is not one to cut your map reading teeth on.
I would not have been there without GPS - more for fuel planning purposes than for any lack of navigation skill. I had planned via Hooker Ck with a refuelling stop at Halls Ck, but a 170 kt GS with the FTDK backed off to 6 hrs endurance let me go direct with an appropriate margin of safety.
I wouldn't have taken it on in a Tiger Moth either, but lets not lament the demise of the open cockpit!
Dr
CS - That's a very good point but that particular track (Tennant Ck to Broome direct) is not one to cut your map reading teeth on.
I would not have been there without GPS - more for fuel planning purposes than for any lack of navigation skill. I had planned via Hooker Ck with a refuelling stop at Halls Ck, but a 170 kt GS with the FTDK backed off to 6 hrs endurance let me go direct with an appropriate margin of safety.
I wouldn't have taken it on in a Tiger Moth either, but lets not lament the demise of the open cockpit!
Dr
Seasonally Adjusted
I would not have been there without GPS
Must be a monorail TQ as it only has sleepers on one side. Remarkably straight though.
FTDK - my first job outside of Melbourne in a C210 covered that patch of the country, sans GPS, as did many before me. OK it did not have the legs for TNK-BRM, but you don't have to be going that far to wonder where you are. NDBs don't travel over sand too well, and ADFs normally don't work too well either in old VFR210s....
FTDK - my first job outside of Melbourne in a C210 covered that patch of the country, sans GPS, as did many before me. OK it did not have the legs for TNK-BRM, but you don't have to be going that far to wonder where you are. NDBs don't travel over sand too well, and ADFs normally don't work too well either in old VFR210s....
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Bonanza rolls Boeing in flight across Oz
Another interesting example of the use of a light aircraft as a business tool.
Townsville - Broome with Qantas (via Brisbane and Perth) departs TL at 0600 local and arrives in Broome at 1740 local - 13 hr 40 min total travel time.
I left TL at 0630 local via Mt Isa (fuel) - Barkly Roadhouse (lunch) and Tennant Ck (fuel) and arrived in Broome at 1600 local - 11 hr 30 min total travel time.
Did some business in Hall's Ck and Kununurra on the way home - so that was a bonus.
Dr
Townsville - Broome with Qantas (via Brisbane and Perth) departs TL at 0600 local and arrives in Broome at 1740 local - 13 hr 40 min total travel time.
I left TL at 0630 local via Mt Isa (fuel) - Barkly Roadhouse (lunch) and Tennant Ck (fuel) and arrived in Broome at 1600 local - 11 hr 30 min total travel time.
Did some business in Hall's Ck and Kununurra on the way home - so that was a bonus.
Dr
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Bonanza rolls Boeing in flight across Oz
With work of words like that you could have a career in journolism
So did you almost crash land multiple times during the trip, with passengers lucky to escape with their lives or sandwiches......Ok excluding your arrival in Townsville I believe
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I reckon thats a mouse on an electronic copy in MS paint or something, its damn hard to handwright in PS paint or similar, if you have not tried....go give it a go.
Either than or the Doc was in some pretty good turbulence.
J
Either than or the Doc was in some pretty good turbulence.
J
Hey I moved to your part of the world after flying around those islands! Although it was the lure of swiss and yankee kero burners that brought me to the desert, not the sumptuous delights of the Exchange of an evening...
As for a hint....about 4 hours from Cairns in a Shrike, which almost gives it away. I'll let people guess the radial. Bloody great snorkelling, swimming off the edge of that reef was the only time I have had vertigo snorkelling.
As for a hint....about 4 hours from Cairns in a Shrike, which almost gives it away. I'll let people guess the radial. Bloody great snorkelling, swimming off the edge of that reef was the only time I have had vertigo snorkelling.
