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Ingelara details
To The owners.
Can you please tell us the airfield height and whether you have circuit procedures etc? Also, another poster mentioned landing fees. Can you please tell us how much they are (as of April 2017)? We hope to be flying in around the 1-2 May 2017 in company with some other airplanes, mostly ultralights.
Looking forward to seeing you out there and your beautiful part of the country.
S&C Hendry
Error in data
The website for the field is http://www.riddellairfield.com.au/
The field elevation is 1150 ft.
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POLICE pregnant held near ballikurava foreigner connect to Dr.ARUNA 924651
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Avgas availability
What's the Avgas situation. BP Garnett or MasterCard ?
Look forward to dropping in sometime.
TIF @ YMPC
I did a TIF with another flying school here. Very nice VFR flying that can be done If you head northwest of the aerodrome. Circuits are also fun as you are commonly there with CT4As and sometimes PC9s as well.
BAD
BAD AIRORT
Where on the strip can you park?
Hi everyone i have never been to this airstrip but I have been here before through Learmonth and i was wondering where can you park a plane here.
Thanks
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Is this place open for public viewing?
Runway Upgrade
Work has began to lengthened the current 9/27 runway from 1,830m to 2,200m & the surface is also going to be thickened to allow for heavier aircraft there is also talk about the airport having a tower installed due to increases traffic.
Fuel
You can only use a BP carnet card! Be warned, and if you need a call out it will cost >$250
Curry
Head for the Golden India, such great curries and we fly there just to enjoy one.
Nice place but expensive
Stayed overnight at Forrest with my Daughterand re-fuled. Great for a stopover or break. Airport manager and his wife were terrific, and the dinner was great, but it was the most expensive leg of my whole trip round Oz :(
Ground transport
There are NO taxis!!!
Info
Talk to Peter, PPR.
Land up hill from the river.
A Nice place to stay
They have good camping and huts, and its a nice place.
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A great and interesting guy, and a fantastic visit.
Danger!
PPR required, and power lines to the north (Don't try and over fly) and Power line to the south across the strip (You have to fly under it)!!
Owner is Dex
Info
Hard to get PPR, have to follow lots of rules, but friendly with fuel.
Great place
A great place, welcoming and friendly with a fantastic club house with beds up stirs and a shower
Info
Gravel Runway, mainly used by the RFD. Call the road house to check.
Nice Place
Easy to get fuel 100LL or the sorvo on the edge of the field, also a good shop and does a nice fish and chips
Lat/long
Click "For Pilots", and then "General". Latitude and Longitude are under there.
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What is the Latitude & Longitude of this Airport, YLKN? I ask for my Flight Simulator. I cannot find it & I have looked for hours! Thanks
Amendment to YLAG
YLAG is not 620m in length, It's a privately owned grass strip, permission to land required, Max usable length is 500m with an approx. 1% rise from each end to mid runway.Sand dunes at NE & high trees at SW end of strip
No airport here
No airport at this location
interesting history
built by USAF with cement stabiized gravel - finished as WW2 ended - plans for freight hub in competition to IPEC early eighties
Access Required
Am wanting to enquire who I need to speak with to arrange access across Air Services Land to the rear of my Property in Northview street Gilliestion Heights in install an inground swimming pool. Ideally needing access to allow small truck and Excavator to enter my property from the rear
Please call me on 0409 744 734 or email the.poolman@myacn.net.au
Wrong spot!
The Omeo airstrip is to the SE of the township on the Great Alpine Road. Roughly 14/32. It's in the country airstrip guide.
Low flying plane for over 25 minutes today!
Who are the idiot joyriders plaguing us with continuous low swoops over our property and surrounding area of Myocum? ah, is this yet again the way our rights to peace and quiet are to be invaded by tourists and other jokers in planes? This plane was just above the gums on their lowest swoop.
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This airfield used to be used by the Pakenham Commando Skydivers (commandoskydivers.com.au), who have since moved their operations to Tooradin. YTDN
The Pakenham airfield will never open again, considering all of the housing, factories and other things that are on it now.
THE BEST
Third Sunday of the month is the time to be there. Morning tea and lunch $15 the lot. Coffee, tea and wine for the non flyers can also be purchased. A truly great bunch of ladies and guys. FANTASTIC facilities.
Colin
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Landing fees now apply
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When i was last there about 6 years ago there was a Turbulent cruising around( a very cool old kit built french number if memory serves).. a Super cub , a tiger , a WACKO Waco, A Citabria , A Plastic fantastic sr22 hotrod...a few 172s ,warrioirs arrows etc and a couple of 152s not to mention a swarm of Sportstar (90kt little Polish numbers) ... except the Wacko and Turbulent all were available to hire .... If you like flying cool aircraft check it out . If you dont ... go somewhere else
ARRIVALS INFORMATION BOARD
WHere is it?? Everywhere else in the world there is a big board which I can read from 40 paces. In Oerth it is a small TV screen and I have to be within 5 meters to read it. Still no status Just a " due" time Wake up Perth.
Adelaide Biplanes comments.
(Reposted as my earlier post didn't include my name.)
I read the on this thread while researching flying schools before starting lessons some 3 months ago.
I drove to Murray Bridge, and to Parafield, and when I went for a look-see at Aldinga (after the comments below) I expected a frosty welcome, perhaps expensive food, and worse.
What I found instead is a warm family-run business, a guided walk over to the school's aircraft parked across the beautiful lawn area so I could see their quality and equipment, and nothing but respect and warmth.
Of the four schools I visited and spoke with (and I took the TIF with another school), Adelaide Biplanes was by far the most welcoming.
Not only that, their aircraft were the most professionally presented and newer. And also the best priced in the category I'm flying.
I am surprised at the slurs on this page from anonymous posters, and in my eyes that says more about them than the good folks at Adelaide Biplanes.
To anyone else reading this thread, don't accept the comments below as truth - go visit them yourself and make up your own mind.
Re Adelaide Biplanes.
I read the on this thread while researching flying schools before starting lessons some 3 months ago.
I drove to Murray Bridge, and to Parafield, and when I went for a look-see at Aldinga (after the comments below) I expected a frosty welcome, perhaps expensive food, and worse.
What I found instead is a warm family-run business, a guided walk over to the school's aircraft parked across the beautiful lawn area so I could see their quality and equipment, and nothing but respect and warmth.
Of the four schools I visited and spoke with (and I took the TIF with another school), Adelaide Biplanes was by far the most welcoming.
Not only that, their aircraft were the most professionally presented and newer. And also the best priced in the category I'm flying.
I am surprised at the slurs on this page from anonymous posters, and in my eyes that says more about them than the good folks at Adelaide Biplanes.
To anyone else reading this thread, don't accept the comments below as truth - go visit them yourself and make up your own mind.
GREAT LITTLE BUSH STRIP
I learnt to fly based at this strip and found the owner (Bob McIntyre) to be the nicest of blokes you will meet. Bob maintains the strip in an immaculate state and is keen to say gudday to all those that drop in.
The strip is set in amongst his sugarcane crops and is a very picturesque location so take your camera.
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Beware Kangaroo activity dawn dusk on finals / departures
Good airfield in a small town
I am thinking of getting a plane to fly there
Go to Coldstream
The most UN friendly money grabbing airport ever, do yourself a favour and use Coldstream instead. All smiles and no mention of paying. GIVE LILYDALE A WIDE BERTH.
Should one dare?
Why would they "Dob you in"? are you doing something illegal? And how will they "Get you one way or the other"? I will reiterate that your comments are both uneducated and unsubstantiated. . . . How do they not have respect for locals? They have changed circuit patterns to suit, they are running a legal business that brings tourism to the area, and furthermore please state another country airfield that has an equivalent quiver of aircraft as diversified as ABP along with the training to go with it.
To say that radical locals do not want to close the airfield down is false. . . . . I have a feeling that the people venting on this site are in fact the locals that want it shut down. . . . I still have a copy of emails that were sent by Suzi whom she was instructed to apologise for inappropriate comments by the mayor of Onkaparinga.
For the readers and actual pilots of this site please realise that the majority of the negative comments I believe are made are not from actual pilots but from locals trying to shut down the airfield whom have an agenda, they have been both underhanded and dishonest hence they will not put a name to there comments.
Tim Whitrow. 0414468731
Should one dare.
I note that a recent comment suggest that one should identify oneself on this Aldinga comments site.
Do so and say it as it is and you will have assertive action leveled against oneself by the operators.
They will either cancel a fuel card if one has one which is illegal.
Or
They will find reason to Dob you in.
But rest assured, they will get you one way or the other simply for telling as it is.
BOLLOCKS
By the Bollocks, they have brought about all these negative comments themselves.
Look at other airports and airfields and there are very few negative comments.
Where there is a lot of smoke, there certainly is a fire.
Bollocks and Get some balls
Grow up and get some balls has it all wrong.
Adelaide Biplanes had absolutely no respect for the locals.
They came here Pommy Land, Bought the Flying school and within a short period of time where conducting flight activities at all hours and late on Saturday and Sundays with the constant droning of aircraft going round and round and sometimes low level circuits as well.
Anyone living in the vicinity stated getting jacked off.
But they never ever wanted to close the flying school nor the airfield down. That us absolute rubbish to state that.
At the end of the day it was simply and plainly Adelaide Biplanes who have been the root cause of a beautiful country airfield being EPA licensed. That transpired to be the only way to control these inconsiderate operators who have dobbed other aviators in to CASA rather than talk to the person that they, as self appointed industry police, perceived to be doing wrong.
And worse than that , they reported people from other airfields and venues which had absolutely nothing to do with them.
And to Mr Bollocks. The way you are ranting and raving leaves a lot to be desired in your ignorant outlook of the the facts.
As a Adelaide Biplane disciple, you would have blinkers on.
It only takes one to read the majority of comments to form an opinion that the operators at Aldinga have also no respect for Australian Aviators many of whom can fly rings around the bloke from Aldinga.
Remember that within the first year of him coming to Australia from Pommie Land, he stated that Australians have a bad flying culture and that HE was going to change it.
He has alright, which is why the pilots from Adelaide Biplanes are not overly welcome at any of the Flying Venues in South Australia. And that is a fact.
And the other thing which many have experienced, go there and do not put your hand in your pocket for fuel, coffee or cake, you will get the cold shoulder.
Fly in luncheons every Saturday!
Luncheons every Saturday at the GV Aero club rooms 12.30pm start, also Pancake breakfasts 1st Sunday of every month everybody welcome
Former site Pakenham airport, Australia
Well and truly closed. The former runway alignment lies under the path of Greendale Blvd, Arden Ave and Sandalwood drive and the houses on the southern side of these streets. It also extends under the Shanagolden village property. Sections of grasslands to on the northern side of the former runway have been preserved as green lands and are protected to some extent by the existence of native grasses (assumedly protected from grazing for many years by the existence of the former airport).
Nanchang for sale?
Hi all, I see from the blogs a couple of CJ6/Nanchangs as WIP at Serpentine.
I am trying to locate a good airframe as a project if some one knows of one, selling, etc.
I already operate two in Victoria and looking for another project.
thanks
Matt
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Aldinga Airfield. . . . Grow up and Grow some Balls.
Reading all of these comments for the first time is interesting, Oh and so brave or the Pilots commenting without signing you name to anything. It reminds me of school girls bitching about something they don't like. Seriously I have been Flying out of YADG for 10 years. It is a great local airfield (That is NOT owned and operated by Adelaide Bi-Planes) and If you cant fit in to a circuit that has multiple runways in operation then get some more training it's pretty basic. Right hand circuits are in place to appease the few locals who have tried to shut down the field due to noise. . . whom purchased well after the field was registered and they failed. . . hence the EPA saga, it was there last resort.
The comments about ABP and the EPA are both uneducated and unsubstantiated and I will leave it at that, if you don't know anything about it don't comment on it because you sound like a tit.
The Aviation community is small and we should be all trying to support each other not shit on each other.
Tim Whitrow. Local very bad Pilot who seems to piss everybody off..
Low flying plane for more than an hour this morning!
🔗 Sun, 23 Apr 2017
— Anonymous Flyer at Tyagarah Airport, Australia
We live in myocum & most mornings we are woken to the noise of low flying planes. One in particular flies over & over for ages. Why can't they fly out to sea instead of flying over a residential area? Seems as they are a law unto themselves. Planes have been continuously flying low over our house for over an hour this morning!