AUSFLY 2012 Narromine NSW 13-16 September
 

The Australian Aviation scene has been longing for an Oshkosh inspired kind of fly in, we have Natfly for the light end of the scale, Avalon for the heavy metal, but the vast majority of private and sport aviation has had nothing to serve as an annual get together, sharing of knowledge and education, exhibition of latest products and some all round good entertainment and fostering of goodwill.

Several major private and sport GA groups have gotten together or are supporting this launch of what could become the annual fly in for all private and sport pilots, be they a drifter, gyro, glider, warbird, ballon, certified C152 to Beech B200 or anywhere inbetween pilot/owner.

This thread is to be an information resource, so please keep the posts on topic.

For details and information as they unfold, please keep an eye on www.ausfly.com.au

If you are reading this, consider yourself invited!

This event is a not for profit event, and if we all get behind it we can create history by attending the very first, and begin something that can grow into an annual event like the EAA have done over the last 50 years.

Any questions please post them here, for any organisations wishing to participate or contribute in any way, please PM us.

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6 weeks to go!
 

Some news and tips for everyone attending.

Convention Dinner | AUSFLY Narromine 13-16 Sept 2012

The formal dinner function is already 50% prebooked and we expect the next 6 weeks will see a higher rate of bookings, so be part of that rush, as you will not avoid it!

Air displays will now be on the Friday evening as well, 4pm onwards, so that is 50% more than we previously promised. We have a variety of displays from large RC Jets to L39 Jets Gliders to P51 Mustangs and The awesome Hawker Fury of David Warburton (ppruner no less).

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Add to this aerobatic displays by Tony Blair, Paul Bennet and Rainer Huefner.

And did I hear you say you wanted more? OK, how about the brave and fearless test pilot Keith Englesman flying the WRIGHT FLYER! :D

Don't miss out on the start of something big. Sure it will not be as huge as Oshkosh, just yet, but let's give it a go anyway!

See you there.

Sold! :ok:

From little things, big things grow....get your arses up there and turn it into Auskosh

Already booked the plane. No idea where to get accomodation, that place is sold out!

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Nita can book you in for a supplied tent site with bunks, just bring your sleeping bag and a pillow :ok:

See you there.....should be some good rum fueled fun:}

I have booked my dinner tickets already, I was told that due catering there can be no walk up purchases. So if you don't book for the formal dinner, the aero club and gliding club is the go.

This should be a good social outing, as Jack the Ranga says, get up there! I have a few mates doing flying displays and from what I know it should be good stuff.

At night 50 foot off the deck in tight formation??:E

Program of events, seminars and workshops now on the www.ausfly.com.au website.

Unfortunately the Fury has had to pull out, but there are plenty of others to entertain.

The flying programme has DOUBLED! Instead of 2 x 1.5 hours we have now gone to 3 x 2 hour format, with the first display Friday afternoon from 3.30pm and two on Saturday.

The Wright Flyer Replica has its new C of A, and all going well will be flying, conditional on weather.

One item on the programme which on the face of it looks like a Experimental category workshop is going to be of great benefit to aircraft owners in not only experimental category but also those owners who have Certified aircraft. AD ENG4 and what is required, plus what else you should be doing. Having the owner educated and able to work (not necessarily hands on) with the LAME is a vital means of improving the service work done, and the understanding of the owner on exactly what condition his power plant is in.

This workshop is going to be conducted by Australia's leading engine LAME Mr Andrew Denyer from Riverina Airmotive in Adelaide.

Check the programme, and do not miss this one!

Entertainment is now confirmed for both Friday & Saturday night and there will be some fuel vouchers to win courtesy of Aero Refuellers. So sharpen up your singing voice! When the pro's give you a go, there will be high value prizes to battle for. Without all the fuss of the TV show.

Just to clear the air regarding the Hawker Fury at Ausfly 2012 - Unfortunately it will not be making an appearance this year - Sorry!!

Friday & Saturday Night

These Guys will stop you in your tracks!

Ellen & Travis

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Prizes / Fuel Discounts
 

Talent show prizes, 2 x 100L AVGAS vouchers , yes thats over $200 worth if you contribute to the evenings festivities and are good enough. Bring along whatever you need!

See if you can upstage the pro's!

Fuel at AUSFLY will be supplied by our major sponsor AERO REFUELLERS and with a generous FIFTEEN....15 Cents Per Litre OFF the published YPKS price on the day.:ok:

Who said the spirit of GA was dead.:D

Tanker up for the trip home! Just don't arrive too light on :uhoh:

Cirrus Aircraft Come and see the latest Cirrus Aircraft, listen in on the Cirrus lecture Cirrus-The Past, The Present & The Future by Australian & SE Asia Regional Director Mr Graham Horne.

Things to Learn Lots of news and information from CASA, Air Services and AOPA on topics from Safety Programs, New Medical Options, and avionics and Surveillance into the future.

EFB's Continually improving EFB products from OZrunways and Avplan will be on show along with educational seminars.

Ballon Glow Friday night the Balloon Trek party will put a beautiful display and backdrop to the BBQ and entertainment.

Hey check this out, link sent to me about Cirrus.

AusFly 2012 - Australia | Facebook

Even Cirrus are into FB marketing. And I don't "do" FB. I may have to learn it if this is the way even aviation manufacturers are heading. Dick Van Grunsman now has all their media releases and his wise articles on there too. I must be missing something :sad:

What a pleasant surprise after being ripped off by opportunistic thieves at other 'events'

Win a Dynon D1 at AUSFLY
 

Great News!

Horsham Aviation and Dynon Avionics are pleased to annouce the donation of a new Dynon D1 to be raffled at AUSFLY 2012.

For more information see the Dynon press release and information page.

While CASA does approve fitting a Dynon D6/D10A in a certified aircraft in PVT operations, for non private ops, the D1 is a very good emergency tool that can be moved from plane to plane.

Dynon Avionics - SkyView 3.3 Released

Dynon Avionics - The D1 Pocket Panel


Well done Horsham Aviation and Dynon :D

is underwing camping permitted with your own tent?

Sort of Ultralights, the long term parking is at the SE corner of the parking area, the BYO camping will be along the boundary behind your plane, this way we can squeeze in as many aircraft as we can, and still keep BYO campers within short range of both the aircraft and the ammentities block.

You must pay some camping fees to cover all the ammentities etc, see Nita at the Narromine Tourist park on arrival. :ok:

By the surge in pre-registration and dinner bookings, we believe this will be a good turn out!

If this is the first go, imagine what 5 years will transform into.

Poster size of the raffle!
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Due to expanded flying displays the times on the arrival instructions have been revised.

Flying In | AUSFLY Narromine 13-16 Sept 2012

NOTAMS will be issued, please refer to the above in conjunction with NOTAM information.

For those who can't make it Plane Crazy Down Under can get you there by internet radio at least!

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Find an excuse to come
 

Arrived after lunch today. Already a hundred aircraft here. Don't miss it. It's gunna be HUGE!!!

We have not started yet :eek:

We are sure that at some point we may disappoint somebody, but if that is because we can't cope with an over attendence, that is a great problem to have!

This has been set out to give GA something that has been needed fora long time, to fill in the missing piece. The fantastic efforts so far have been humbling indeed.

So long as you all have a good weekend, make new friends, learn something new, and want to come back again, it will be all worth the effort.

By the way, the AOPA / CASA safety seminars and the Sunday morning lectures in the next generation of technology is worth seeing. The sneek preview was very good.

Formal dinner function is sold out, and scalping, officially sanctioned that is is going on. The usual Aero Club and Gliding Club meals will be on plus the awesome Ellen, Travis and Andrew will enteratain you.

New Cirrus looks stunning, and the flying displays will have something for everyone, plus a bit more.

The weather has turned gin clear tonight, so a good weekend ahead :ok:

Please note this NOTAM when you search your weather and Notams.

Too bad these activities always bring idiots who overfly at circuit height with the wrong frequency or just don't say anything at all on CTAF, as was displayed at dubbo today. :ugh:

The centre controller was also expressing their concerns to anyone in the vicinity of Dubbo or Narromine. Stay safe out there people and keep a good lookout!!!!

Ausfly 2012 was awesome!!!!
 

Perfect weather
great aerodrome
well organized
top airshow
good food at reasonable prices
Huge number of trade displays

With all affordable aviation sectors covered, this event will go from strength to strength.

Loved it all.

Well done guys. I've booked my accomodation for next year!:ok:

Good to hear. I guess we need something positive.:ok::ok::ok::ok:

" Verr are ze pictures?"

I am getting impatient.

We need pictures, now!:{

Emeritus.

Great show
 

Wow, just got back from Ausfly at Narromine. A really great fly-in. A real credit to the organizers. A very big turnout and perfect weather. Lots of very interesting and diversified aircraft....warbirds, gyrocopters, jets, helicopters, amphibians, light sport, trikes, and a large range of Experimentals. And good aerobatic displays. Also lots of interesting and well attended seminars including talks by representatives of OzRunways and Avplan. Didn't hear a negative comment from anyone. I am expecting that this show will be even bigger next year once the word gets around. This has the makings of a potential Ozkosh.

It just goes to show how vibrant the aviation scene can be in Australia when the various aviation organisations bury the hatchet and come together to show their wares. Just a pity the vintage and veteran guys couldn't see their way out of their cocoon and come on board...but hopefully next year.

I only have one complaint, and it's a very small complaint.....too many guest speakers and speeches at the Saturday night dinner.

We arrived home last night from what was an absolutely huge event. We as exhibitors were just astounded at the crowds who attended. Personally I was just so flat out I never saw the air displays or get time to get my camera out and indulge my hobby of taking aircraft photos.

Did get a chance to walk the flight line early in the mornings to see just the huge array of different aircraft, as the sun came up and started melting the frost off them.

The organisers did a fantastic job. Personally I did not hear one word of discontent from anyone. :ok:

Can't wait until next year.

Bevan..

Great show, great people involved, very few problems, and lots of great ideas on how to ramp it up a notch for AUSFLY 2013.

Attendance of aircraft exceeded expectation, people who drove in far exceeded expectation. Exhibitors all had a good weekend, both aero clubs ran out of food late Friday night and so did the Pizza guy, so we dont think anyone went hungry.

And already this morning this video compliation link was emailed in.



A massive thank you to all the volunteers, all the exhibitors, and all the people who attended. :Dhttp://www.beechtalk.com/forums/imag...ies/worthy.gif

This is just the beginning :ok:

Woot - 5:43

Was an awesome weekend...the locals love it too. I couldn't believe the size of some of the models. Huge!

That's not bad at all.

Apart from the ruskies, and the beautiful Avenger & Mustang, was there much of a warbird presence?

Was a hoot! :ok:

And the pic....well mine were pretty limited, but here are a few highlights!

I'll be back next year for sure!:ok:

Subversive; due to unavailability of one Mustang, a Fury and one other that I can't remember, the usual Winjeel and Boomerang etc were there. Hopefully the Temora folk and Ausfly folk can join up for next year and make a bigger warbird presence.

If this is round one.......lookout for round two!

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And this man is an Air Traffic Controller ....so we can't show you his face on prune :}http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/a...m_IMG_6850.jpg

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And some more!

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And this lucky man, won the Greg Hood sponsored Aviator Shiraz prize, because he had first soloed further back in time than anyone else there! Long before many of us were born! ....... I think he said around 60 years since his first solo
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And from one extreme to the other, this young fella Ben Clowes from down around Deniliquin has just turned 13 and is already building his own RV12 :D under the watchfull eye of his dad and RV6 owner.

Here he is drawing the prize winning ticket for the Dynon D1 mentioned above.
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Is that a prolific Pprune poster wearing a tux? :oh:

I agree the dinner was great but the last two last speeches were just not needed. The rest of weekend was fantastic! The organization of planes on landing was fantastic and great big thankyou to all those fantastic volunteers.:DI be back next year :ok:

Balloon Photo
 

That blue balloon on the left was the one I brought up from Melbourne for the owners to fly. I was supposed to fly it on Sunday morning but the winds picked up & scuppered that plan. DOH! :)

Was a great time at AusFly! Very much looking forward to next year :)

If prolific is a good thing.... then yes. ;)

Hey what happened to the Balloon Glow on friday night?

Did I miss it?

I heard an organizer say 300-400 aircraft flew in over the 4 days

I heard from the Albury Refueller that they went through 14,000 litres of avgas, and the Warbirds and display planes would have been less than 4000 of that at least. They had to bring in a second taker Friday night after going through 8000 L and added another 6000.They left empty. I was lucky to get filled :uhoh:

Do the numbers, 10,000 + litres and I know I only took on 115L, so how many aircraft do you need to suck up that much fuel.

I think 400 is a gross understatement :eek:

So Capt Garmin, I think your organiser mate was suffering from a lack of available data at the time! ;);)

It was a major hoot. And I am understating it.

Nope, no glow. Too windy, I'm told :(