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Pure Hospitality
They offer comfy accommodation and fabulous meals, well worth a visit!
Aldinga's Flying School's Web Site
www.adelaidebiplanes.com.au
Good to visit the Rock!
Its just a short stroll to the shops and the Rock. Well worth a visit.
Great Hide away
If you want to get a way from it all. This strip is just around 1000 km north from Perth. Well worth it!
Fools at the airport
probably the most small minded arrogant fools I have ever had the misfortune of dealing with.
Very dangerous place to fly due to the ultralights without radio doing as they please, and the idiots based there that think they are gods gift to aviation and hang around in small groups insulting pilots. Normally found in the bar flying....... because they can't in real life.
Don't bother stopping there unless you want to be insulted by fools.
First 747 to land at SYD
It was a cold windy rainy day in the early 70's
I had never seen a Jumbo land but it was clear he was landing LONG!
So long he ran off end of runway and nearly got in a fight with airport fuel lines!
I think USA pilot was given a ticket home.
Anyone have any additional info or an old photo from Sydney herald.
PS now live in the land of Boeing namely Seattle.
cool art
The aboriginal art is very cool inside the airport. It's a shame there's no viewing area for passengers inside the terminal.
Nice airport
This airport is not huge but does it's job. It has a very long runway for a regional city.
Not well planned
This airport is not very well planned because of how the terminals are to far apart, and airport is very close to the city which is good and bad.
Great airport
The runways are very easy to land on and there isn't has much traffic.
Reggae Dave says:
Airstips are for landing on ... not sleeping on.
GOANA Air Safari
Did a C-172 checkout at Redcliffe with GOANA in 2002 before spending a week flying around the East Coast of Australia. Was issued an Australian Day VFR license on the basis of my Canadian license and a check flight with the GOANA chief pilot.
YADG
Fantastic place to visit. Coffee and light meals always available. Friendly people.
re: Tom Price Airport
Thanks for the correction. It's hard to find AU airport info, and a lot of what I have is inaccurate -- I've fixed the lat/lon as you suggested.
Tom Price Airport
Tom Price Airport is currently sparse of traffic, and only accommodates the Royal Flying Doctor's Service and a few recreational flyers who want to get up their practice. This used to be the main airport for Tom Price, however since the airport in Paraburdoo was built it has become somewhat disused. Plans are going ahead to rebuild the Tom Price airport however no estimated date has been given. Also the Latitude and Longtitude for this airport are somewhat incorrect. The correct coordinates are 22.746°S, 117.869°E at an altitude of approximately 700m (2300ft). Runway length is approximately 760m (2500ft).
Australia's busiest air base
This is the RAAF's busiest base by aircraft movements, and serves as an alternate landing site for the U.S. NASA space shuttles.
Re: Dunolly
I have my doubts about several of the airports that came from that particular user. I've got 529 Australian airports from him, so I'm reluctant to delete them all, but I'm also reluctant to verify them all.
re: Dunolly airstrip
I agree -- I can find no evidence anywhere that this airport exists. It came in some user-supplied data from navaid.com, but I'll probably delete it unless someone has a better source.
Dunolly airstrip
So where is it? The coordinates seem to put me into a hillside of trees.
I can't seem to locate the airstrip in the surrounding area even though Google Earth is high definition.
sincerely, Wesley wdalefamily@hotmail.com
Bunbury Aero Club
On arrival at the Bunbury Airport, be sure to call into the newly renovated Aero Club building. We are open 7 days a week and our pilot shop sells maps and charts. Come and say hi and have a drink on the deck for a great view of the strip!
What do you mean - I damnwell left a comment
I have been here and loved the place - great little place to relax
could you please email any information on the proposed airpo
To Whom it May Concern,
Could you please forward any information on the proposed airport to david@clcsol.com.au
Regards,
David
YDLV
Fun dirt strip to land on - love it
YMGD
32 is one of the most beautiful approaches a pilot can fly - I loved it
Bankstown
Too many sausage factory air schools here
YPDN
29 is the best one to land on
as remote as it gets
Flew there with Par Avion www.paravion.com.au on a Islander
PAr Avion
The GA field for Hobart, just next to the International airport - so close they use the same tower.
Left Cambridge for a tour with Par Avion, www.paravion.com.au - to Melaleuca, a remote strip near Bathurst Harbour. It was just fantastic, this is really what flying is all about.
plane crash
a very dangerous place for joyflights never go there
The reason why I want a PPL
Or at least something to look forward to !
Every year Phillip Island is home to the Australian Moto Grand Prix. In October 2004 I rode there with a mate all the way down from Sydney to attend the Grand Prix and witness Valentino Rossi historic win on the Yamaha, claiming back-to-back championships on two differents bikes (he won the 2003 championship on a Honda).
It's a very scenic but also a very long way from Sydney (we got there via Princes Hwy, and back via the Great Alpine Road which caused some overenthusiastic riding and subsequently claimed the life of a soft-compound rear tyre).
I sold my bike 2 years ago and when I resumed flying, I made it an objective to get my PPL in time for the 2007 MotoGP in order to fly there (safely). I am not flying often enough to reach that objective though.
Still, am going this year, flying commercial via Melbourne, and will fly there as a PPL pilot in 2008 (hopefully)
I listed Bankstown at my home airport but I could have liste
I live fairly close by, walking down the street to the beach I can see the main runway 34L which is reclaimed on Botany Bay, I drive next to it every morning going to work (actually, in the airport tunnel under the runways) and my job is so close to the airport that the building is shaking when heavies e.g 747 are on very short final on runway 25 - so close you can almost touch the aircraft !
We get to see some interesting aircrafts land there now and then. Indeed there were quite a few of us to watch the A380 land here for the first time almost two years ago.
Viva The Whitsundays
Landed here on a short (maybe 15 minutes) shuttle flight in a Cherokee 6, from Hamilton Island where we just arrived from Sydney. Absolutely fantastic views of the Whitsundays Islands :-)
The grass runway is located between two big hills so you basically can't see the circuit on the downwind leg (which is itself above water) and keeping the runway centerline is not just an option here...
Oh I almost forgot the subsequent sailing around the Whitsundays was awesome too !
Careful here - no dead side
The southern side of Camden is dedicated to gliders, so gotta be careful in joining the circuit here - circuit always on the northern side of the field, and there is no dead side to the circuit.
Skyfox Gazelle
had a TIF on a Gazelle ultralight there. How slow compared to the Warrior, but also how easy to fly. Flying at fairly low level above the beach, awesome :-)
where I have done my first solo flight
I am a student pilot at Schofields Flying Club based there
MCY
A great place to fly into, but ramp space is very limited.
CTL
A much busier airport back in the 70's.
BCI
I flew in here in a Stearman one day, and was warmly welcomed by about half the population of the town. A nice friendly place.
ROK
Situated right on the Tropic of Capricorn. A cattle town.
ISA
A good airport and quite an interesting city.
HTI
Seeing the amount of rock and soil they moved in order to contstruct this airport is mind-boggling.
OKY
Be sure to visit the Army Aviation Museum. Some great airshows were held here years ago.
Amberley
Lots of interesting military aircraft here.
TSV
Always efficient.
CNS
One of my all-time favourite airports, and cities. The birthplace of Bush Pilots Airways.
BNE
I can't wait until they open the new parallel runway. A pity it won't be pointing into the prevailing (south-easterly) wind.
KGI
Flying in here I am always amazed at the size of the holes in the ground. There must be some awfully big rabbits in these parts.
PER
This airport has to hold some sort of record for the number of SID's and STAR's. I guess they want to make it look like a big place. ATC seem to think they are at Chicago or somewhere.
One thing in very short supply is ramp space, and the delays in getting to the runway (particularly early in the morning - everyone seems to want to depart at 0600) are unbelievable.
A very clean and pleasant city though.
Story about midair collision
🔗 Thu, 18 Dec 2008
— @david at Sydney Bankstown Airport, Australia
This is a bit sensationalist, but it suggests that the VFR routes into Bankstown are too restricted for the safe flow of traffic:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,24821548-23349,00.html