lots of planes packed up on the main hangar
the air truk is definitely a weird airplane :)
cool beechcraft 2000A starship
lots of planes packed up on the main hangar
the air truk is definitely a weird airplane :)
cool beechcraft 2000A starship
Yeah, it was entirely too simple before that
Kingfisher Resort, where we stayed
the car ferry we had taken earlier
the lake we visited the previous day
nice little runway on the other side of the island
and the last landing of the trip.
the roads are interesting, soft sand makes it more difficult to drive
sometimes it felt like we were on a boat :)
lots of snails as tide was getting lower
they make a pile of sand and hide under it, they're quite skilled
I'm assming they get eaten by birds
glad to have others on scope, because I couldn't really see them
some fish would surface to get food
then another one came and they fought a bit
you could have breakfast by the koalas
snails that make the shells that hermit crabs steal later :)
Bluff lookout with view of Undara lodging
Jack, grabbing some internet :)
ants make those big holes so that insects and small animals fall in it, and then they eat them
those hills are built by termites
that's what they look inside (I didn't break this one)
I caught 2 fish, but they were too small to eat
Alice Springs is the main base of the flying doctors service
a single crop circle in the middle of nowhere
devil's marble round rock formations
if glaciers didn't do this, I don't know what did
got stung by those lovely yellow jackets
the thorny devil is very cool (albeit small)
I think the mice lose out in that display...
an idea of scale, Australia is bigger than Europe
patients can be treated in the plane
this one looks like a cartoon character from ice age :)
we were not allowed to proceed further, the local aborigines say it's sacred land
I found a friendly chicken walking around :)
rat wallaby with a joey, very cute.
the echidnas were curious and came to our feet. One came to sniff my hand with its little wet nose
this guy drove off the road and just abandonned the car there
that jetstar plane nicely waited for me to land before it went
I only had 10mn to climb maybe a 3rd of it
got as high as this before I had to go back down to get back to the group, something I much regret now
sigh, we could have been there...
instead we drove around the rock, which was nice too, but could have been done at some later time
little birds liked to live in there
they even had a telescope so that we could see saturn
the clay gets a varnish on top so that it doesn't fall on you
Australia had a big island sea with prehistoric sea creatures
you can see the tunnel boring machine
From Pitch Black with Vin Diesel (a good SciFi movie actually)
not a movie prop, but super cool to see a DS so far from home
most holes are left unattended and are easy to fall into
I first flew over big red, where we had gone for sunset the previous evening
by then I had a nice tailwind and was doing 159kts on a 125kt plane
when flying down lake eyre, I clocked a peak 169kt in level flight at 2500ft. Not bad for a 172 :)
finally arrived at William Creek
special planes with magnetic detection probes to do land surveying for minerals
most people arrive to William Creek the hard way, through harduous 4WD tracks
I was so happy to have a G1000 to show me where other planes, were.
'traffic alert, traffic alert!' :)
there were watering holes for cattle
we had to hold our planes when it left to make sure we didn't get blown over
the hotel was walking distance from the airport gate
seems that our planes were all equipped with ADS-B, so I was able to see other planes from our group
Our 2nd leg had a bit of convective weather, including this big rain cloud that shook the hell out of us when we had almost cleared the side of it
made it to Incheon/Seoul, and connected to Brisbane
this was the C172 I was going to use for the next 3 weeks, with a slightly faster engine and a G1000