Oz Rally Flight 1900zulu Sunday Feb 23

[Kilstorm]

During my Staycation coming up at the end of the month, I'm thinking of doing a Oz rally flight in the A2A Civilian Mustang and tour all the Payware Oz fields (with the exception of YMAV). Would start at YPJT fly north to Broome then Alice, up to Cairns and down the East coast to end in Melbourne.


Couple of things about the flight.

1) I will use real weather. OPUS

2) I wont use real time but set the time so I start before sunrise to where I arrive at Broome shortly after sunrise.

3) I will use FSEconomy to log each leg.

4) I will do a full stop landing at each airport.

5) I will do it on Pilots Edge and use the CTAF freq (in the event anyone wants to join in during any of the legs or talk on the Radio)

6) I will not use the GPS but only NDB's and VFR for navigation.

7) I will behind the controls every second of the flight and only "get out of the plane" when on the ground at an airport.


Heres my route I have planned:

Flight Plan





YPJT

PERTH JANDAKOT

029° (027°T)

101.1nm

16.8min



BIU

BALLIDU (389.000 BIU )

021° (021°T)

161.4nm

26.9min



MOG

MOUNT MAGNET (395.000 MOG )

023° (023°T)

94.2nm

15.7min



MEK

MEEKATHARRA (251.000 MEK )

020° (020°T)

203.2nm

33.9min



NWN

NEWMAN (233.000 NWN )

051° (053°T)

168.6nm

28.1min



TEF

TELFER (374.000 TEF )

358° (000°T)

224.9nm

37.5min



YBRM

BROOME

110° (113°T)

352.5nm

58.8min



BGO

BALGO HILL (206.000 BGO )

121° (125°T)

386nm

1h4.3m



SPG

ALICE SPRINGS (362.000 SPG )

116° (121°T)

10nm

1.7min



YBAS

ALICE SPRINGS

063° (068°T)

134nm

22.3min



JVS

JERVOIS (203.000 JVS )

049° (055°T)

230.8nm

38.5min



MA

MOUNT ISA (338.000 MA )

053° (059°T)

270.7nm

45.1min




GTN

GEORGETOWN (401.000 GTN )

049° (056°T)

152.3nm

25.4min



CS

CAIRNS (364.000 CS )

147° (154°T)

2.6nm

0.4min



YBCS

CAIRNS

152° (160°T)

43.1nm

7.2min



IFL

INNISFAIL (212.000 IFL )

150° (157°T)

109.4nm

18.2min



TVL

TOWNSVILLE (276.000 TVL )

112° (120°T)

94.4nm

15.7min



BWN

BOWEN (292.000 BWN )

137° (145°T)

34nm

5.7min



PN

PROSERPINE (245.000 PN )

131° (139°T)

53.5nm

8.9min



MK

MACKAY (308.000 MK )

143° (152°T)

150.3nm

25.0min



RK

ROCKHAMPTON (257.000 RK )

123° (133°T)

136.7nm

22.8min



BUD

BUNDABERG (302.000 BUD )

325° (335°T)

0.2nm

0.0min



YBUD

BUNDABERG

119° (129°T)

39.4nm

6.6min



YHBA

HERVEY BAY

161° (172°T)

77nm

12.8min




SU

SUNSHINE COAST (380.000 SU )

166° (177°T)

12.6nm

2.1min



YCDR

CALOUNDRA

169° (180°T)

36nm

6.0min



MTL

MYRTLE (227.000 MTL )

009° (020°T)

1.3nm

0.2min



YBBN

BRISBANE

171° (182°T)

89.4nm

14.9min



CAS

CASINO (332.000 CAS )

170° (181°T)

52.9nm

8.8min



GFN

GRAFTON (389.000 GFN )

161° (172°T)

33.9nm

5.6min



CFS

COFFS HARBOUR (311.000 CFS )

352° (004°T)

0.5nm

0.1min



YCFS

COFFS HARBOUR

179° (191°T)

68.5nm

11.4min



PMQ

PORT MACQUARIE (395.000 PMQ )

236° (249°T)

0.2nm

0.0min



YPMQ

PORT MACQUARIE

269° (281°T)

106.8nm

17.8min



TW

TAMWORTH (341.000 TW )

122° (134°T)

1.1nm

0.2min



YSTW

TAMWORTH

155° (167°T)

90.4nm

15.1min




SGT

SINGLETON (290.000 SGT )

151° (163°T)

14.8nm

2.5min



YCNK

CESSNOCK

159° (171°T)

28nm

4.7min



YWVA

WARNERVALE

251° (263°T)

89.8nm

15.0min



BTH

BATHURST (383.000 BTH )

303° (314°T)

0.3nm

0.1min



YBTH

BATHURST

129° (141°T)

89.2nm

14.9min



WOL

WOLLONGONG (239.000 WOL )

201° (214°T)

0.2nm

0.0min





YWOL

WOLLONGONG

227° (240°T)

89.6nm

14.9min



CB

CANBERRA (263.000 CB )

210° (223°T)

0.9nm

0.2min



YSCB

CANBERRA

220° (232°T)

82.4nm

13.7min



CRG

CORRYONG (386.000 CRG )

224° (237°T)

99.1nm

16.5min



MFD

MANSFIELD (284.000 MFD )

210° (222°T)

74.9nm

12.5min



MB

MELBOURNE-MOORABIN (398.000 MB )

075° (087°T)

0.6nm

0.1min



YMMB

MELBOURNE/MOORABBIN

317° (329°T)

17.5nm

2.9min



EN

MELBOURNE ESS (356.000 EN )

248° (260°T)

0.5nm

0.1min



YMEN

MELBOURNE ESSENDON

308° (320°T)

4.3nm

0.7min



YMML

MELBOURNE INT


Total

4315.7nm

11h59.3m

[Keith Smith]

Edit the subject, put a date on the flight, and I'll move the thread to the 'fly with me' forum, that's what it's for.

[Cyrus]

Sounds like fun. Although it might be a little strange to hear SoCal ATC as you fly

But shouldn't you post this on the 'Fly With Me' board...?

[Keith Smith]

Cyrus, why would you hear any Socal ATC on PE while flying in Australia?

As I said above, if he puts a date on it, I'll move it to the fly-ins forum. We don't actively encourage fly-outs that are outside of the coverage area, but we'll see how it goes.

[Cyrus]

Cyrus, why would you hear any Socal ATC on PE while flying in Australia?

DOH! I have no idea, actually. Bad assumption / brain fart on my part. Now that you mention it, I recall you saying that what we hear mimics the real world, in the sense that it is related to the distance from a controller/airport.

But then again, don't folks on the ground at SFO hear a SAN ground controller, for example? Sorry.... I'm sure I'm mixing up different technical aspects and functions of the network here.......

[Kilstorm]

I plan on doing it some time between Feb 21st and March 1st. Just going to play the local weather and do it on a ugly weather day here outside so I dont feel bad about sitting inside all day on the computer.

[Keith Smith]

But then again, don't folks on the ground at SFO hear a SAN ground controller, for example?

They're tuned to San Francisco Ground. They're hearing the same person who works San Francisco ground also working San Diego Ground because one person is working those positions. At the end of the day, though, they're receiving a signal from a transmitter that's less than 1 mile away. If you actually tried to tune to San Diego Ground while in San Francisco, you wouldn't be able to hear the transmission.

In fact, if you attempted to tune SAN ground (123.90) from SFO, the closest transmitter on that frequency would be the Buchanan Airport (KCCR) tower transmitter, which, at ground level, is likely to be unreachable from SFO, so you should hear silence (plus we don't cover that airport in any case).

[Cyrus]

Got it, thanks.

(like I said... 'twas a brain fart)

[Kilstorm]

I now have a time and date for this flight if any mod's would like to move it to the "Fly with Me" forum. Nathan

[Kim Ellis]

Brilliant. Especially since it is in my stomping ground. Hope you cop a 50C in the shade landing/takeoff in the outback. You're even going to my home airport. Mind you, I would be in the 8i, so would just be following, but you picked some nice strips. Unfortunately got to go to YBUD actually, to pick up the other half coming back from Malaysia. Hope you get lots of takers, and record a few vids for those of us who can't make it.