Light aircraft crash Leigh Creek
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According to the local news, the female passenger in the crash aircraft was the wife of the pilot of the other aircraft and had changed aircraft at William Creek on a whim.
With todays navigation equipment, even in a RAAus aircraft, once you are in the cruise you know to the minute when you will arrive at your destination. If that is after last light the correct decision is clear. Hopefully the surviving pilot will shed some light on what happened so we can all learn from it.
With todays navigation equipment, even in a RAAus aircraft, once you are in the cruise you know to the minute when you will arrive at your destination. If that is after last light the correct decision is clear. Hopefully the surviving pilot will shed some light on what happened so we can all learn from it.
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[QUOTE]I felt more than a little kick in the guts knowing I was the last person to speak to him. Maybe I should have just shut up & let him get on with it, but I doubt whether it would have altered the outcome.[/QUOTE]
I remember a time that a VFR pilot up in the Strait's got caught out in IMC conditions..... if it wasn't for the pilot who calmly kept advising said pilot until regaining VFR (quite some time) it very likely would not have had the successful outcome it did.
You have to give it a go, you did, but sadly sometimes it just doesn't work.
As always, just a tragic and sad event.
I remember a time that a VFR pilot up in the Strait's got caught out in IMC conditions..... if it wasn't for the pilot who calmly kept advising said pilot until regaining VFR (quite some time) it very likely would not have had the successful outcome it did.
You have to give it a go, you did, but sadly sometimes it just doesn't work.
As always, just a tragic and sad event.
I’ll never forget chatting to a chap and his wife at Temora one afternoon at a flying event. Later that afternoon they took off for Cootamundra with nowhere near enough time remaining before last light... and they didn’t make it there. I often wonder to this day why they did that. It’s not like they didn’t have a gps or a watch.
Leigh Creek PAL has been problematic for well over a year, most of my arrivals result in orbiting over the top repeatedly trying to get them on and often someone on the ground has to turn them on. If the pilot and or aircraft were not rated or equipped for NVFR he would have no doubt had rising anxiety with a late arrival and little daylight remaining. A read of the ERSA NVFR procedures for YLEC would have likely ramped this up considerably for him and with the lights now not activating the stress levels could have been extreme. Of course this is all speculation, he may well have been a seasoned night pilot and was happily waiting overhead above LSALT and had an entirely unrelated other issue unfold. Either way there are now decent folk who have had the world ripped apart, all very sad.
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Leigh Creek PAL has been problematic for well over a year, most of my arrivals result in orbiting over the top repeatedly trying to get them on and often someone on the ground has to turn them on. If the pilot and or aircraft were not rated or equipped for NVFR he would have no doubt had rising anxiety with a late arrival and little daylight remaining. A read of the ERSA NVFR procedures for YLEC would have likely ramped this up considerably for him and with the lights now not activating the stress levels could have been extreme. Of course this is all speculation, he may well have been a seasoned night pilot and was happily waiting overhead above LSALT and had an entirely unrelated other issue unfold. Either way there are now decent folk who have had the world ripped apart, all very sad.
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Wasn’t talking about Jabiru - IMHO the Brumby is a completely different kettle of fish 😳
If they left YWMC at 4PM to fly a 148 mile leg to YLEC,- which Desert F states should have taken 1.5 hours, they should have had
plenty of go juice left. They refueled at YWMC and I'm assuming they took on full fuel.
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Yeah,- I just tried to find the media article regarding the fuel, and it's not there anymore.