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  1. Love to fly
    We landed at Myrup on the way over, and were offered hangarage for the night. Many phone calls later we finally found accommodation for the night. Heading East a few weeks later couldn’t find any accommodation anywhere. Local information centre said September throughout May they generally had 100% occupancy. We refuelled at Esperance and headed to Kalgoorlie for the night. Caiguna was too wet to land and we wanted to see Forrest so headed there the next night.
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    We found commodation really expensive at Esperance on our way West. Totally unavailable on our way home so refuelled and went to Kalgoorlie for the night. Taxi into Esperance from the airport would have been over $100. I put together a list of where we stopped, highlights etc last year. I'll dig it up tomorrow.
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    Tocumwal to Jurien Bay last year, February - March. Knew it would be hot but had family reasons for going then. Mid/high 40’s is just too hot though. Aircraft performance, pilot performance, tyres all suffer. Most of the trip was high 30’s, low 40’s so not as bad. And important to realise that some of the roadhouse runways aren’t usable when they’ve had a lot of rain. Caiguna was out for our trip home. We use a ZOLEO and recommend it, or something similar. You can send/receive tests and emails via satellite when out of mobile range and your friends can track you in real time. I’m no expert, but happy to try and answer any questions you have.
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    My comments were just in relation to doing a comns check every flight. I don't for obvious reasons. But I do check that tx comes up when I give a taxi call.
  5. Love to fly
    Sure. But a lot if ALA's don't.
  6. Love to fly
    Genuine question. I routinely take off from airports where there is no one else flying, and you can't reach CTR till 4,500'. How do you suggest I do a comms check?
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    Thank you. Not sure what happened. Posted. Put phone down. Picked it up and duplicates. 🤷‍♀️ And there's another one now 🤦
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    Thanks for the correction. I was basing this on comments made elsewhere on the Web. I should kniw better 🤷‍♀️
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    Hmm what about an electrical failure. I’m told no manual fuel pump, just the electric one. Fuel pump is electric, No transponder, radio, fuel could be an issue methinks.
  10. Love to fly
    Just checked. VFR not PIFR or IFR. Do need TSO’d GNSS and need to be certified competent to use it.
  11. Love to fly
    Actually no.. You set the schedule. Generally more regularly than that methinks.,certainly when I've done them, heard others etc.
  12. Love to fly
    Isn't there something about GNSS certified and visual fix every 2 hours? Been awhile since I've looked so may be wrong.
  13. Love to fly
    Beacon, sure. You still need to be able to turn it on in time. Skeds are recommended not mandatory.
  14. Love to fly
    Think the issue would be one person business and he has been in the states for Oshkosh.
  15. Love to fly
    Interesting thread. We have ADSB in/out in our aircraft, not connected to the iPad . But I use AvPlan which also displays ADSB traffic including some FLARM (gliders). I assumed OzR did similar. Surprised to find it doesn’t. AvPlan also cleverly filters out duplicates, so if my phone, iPads (AvPlan & AvTraffic) and our transponder are transmitting the same info to AvPlan Live only the one aircraft shows on the iPad. I do also use AvTraffic as it picks up more of the gliders which is really relevant here where I’m based. But .. I do worry we’re getting more fixated on screens as opposed to looking out the window.
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    We flew Bairnsdale to Tocumwal IFR yesterday. Went the long way as freezing levels were 5,000. Day before they were even lower. W could hear the rescuer aircraft. Horrible feeling, and still hoping for a good outcome.
  17. Love to fly
    Beautiful flight to Bairnsdale last week. Family stuff till today. Now patiently waiting for the weather to improve to fly home. Don’t think it will be for a couple of days though.
  18. Love to fly
    Not all pilots are blokey though 🙃 and many eons ago I used to be asked by blokey friends to get them pantyhose for long days riding endurance horses. Many jockeys/track riders used to wear them. Chafe protection not warmth being the main goal here. Pantyhose do come in all sizes. 🤷‍♂️
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    I hate flying in boots or heavy shoes. We do have a heater in our plane, rarely use it though. And flew the last one for many years before having a heater installed. For me pantyhose or merino thermals tucked in to heatwarmer brand socks works for me. It was -3 degrees at 9,000’ today flying over the ranges to Bairnsdale and my feet and legs were fine.
  20. Love to fly
    Painted Hills, also Kings Canyon & Gosses Bluff.
  21. Love to fly
    I got some great shots. Will post them later.
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    Lots of green. Still some standing water. Will post some pics in the next few days. Also Tekin from AridAir posted some advice re calls etc around Lake Eyre on Facebook. Worth looking at before you come.
  24. Love to fly
    At Birdsville now. But we’ve been to Coober Pedy, Cadney Homestead, Curtin Dprings, Ayers Rock and Alice Springs since we left William Creek.
  25. Love to fly
    Nope. You're confusing Basic Class 5 and Class 5
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