Jane is working, Robin is on holiday

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Jane is working, Robin is on holiday

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Jane is working for 3 weeks, based in Whyalla South Australia. I had some leave owing, so I am acting as Jane's go getter.

Rather than fly commercially I have flown us over in the DA 40 XLS. We picked some icing on the way over as a cold front went through. Climbed out on top through the scattered cloud. We picked up light icing on the leading edge, the only thing I noted was a decrease of approx 6 Knots on our TAS.

We refueled at Horsham, a wheat sheep town in the Wimmera district of my home state Victoria. Nice club house, with tea, coffee and a microwave.

Trip report number 641.

Again I flew WOT - am impressed that the DA40 - VH JRZ now has a TAS of 145.
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The Coastline near Whyalla
The Coastline near Whyalla
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Over the top of Adelaide, the cpaital city of South Australia.
Over the top of Adelaide, the cpaital city of South Australia.
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Refuelling at Horsham - YHSM
Refuelling at Horsham - YHSM
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Refuelling at Whyalla - South Australia

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I am keen to fly everyday whilst on holidays, and of course other days, but work gets in the way...

Fuel is a lot cheaper a short flight across St Vincents Gulf, at YPIR - Port Pirie. So a good excuse to go flying whilst Jane is at work.

A great club house, food and drinks available at Port Pirie.
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VH JCS - a Cessna 182. This plane is owned by the Anglican Church. The Bishop of Willocha flies around the outback to visit his flock!
VH JCS - a Cessna 182. This plane is owned by the Anglican Church. The Bishop of Willocha flies around the outback to visit his flock!
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refuelling just before last light YPIR.
refuelling just before last light YPIR.
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short final onto Runway 08 YPIR
short final onto Runway 08 YPIR
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Thanks for sharing, Robin! I just had to look up the length of YPIR runway: 3500 ft. It definitely looks a lot shorter.
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Re: Jane is working, Robin is on holiday

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Beautiful pictures, Robin - thanks for posting!

Maybe you can talk the Bishop into upgrading to a DA40? Better view of the Heavens... :-D
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Re: Jane is working, Robin is on holiday: A typical day at Y

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A typical day at Whyalla - by the way you can check out all the airport details at http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/pub ... .asp?pg=10

Whyalla is 124 nautical miles from YPAD - Adelaide the capital city of the State of South Australia.
By road, it is 600 kms.
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For more regular pax - regional express flies Saab 340s in and around the country centres
For more regular pax - regional express flies Saab 340s in and around the country centres
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The PC 12 taxying after a patient pick up
The PC 12 taxying after a patient pick up
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The Royal Flying Doctor Service uses Pilatus PC 12s to do medical transfers and also flies out to do emergencies.  Recently they closed a main outback highway after a car smash, the RFDS landed on the highway, then flew the patients back to Adelaide.
The Royal Flying Doctor Service uses Pilatus PC 12s to do medical transfers and also flies out to do emergencies. Recently they closed a main outback highway after a car smash, the RFDS landed on the highway, then flew the patients back to Adelaide.
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Re: Jane is working, Robin is on holiday - VH JRZ resting

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Some photos of my DA 40 XLS on the edge of the outback.

Its very green at the moment, its winter and we have had lots of rain. The last 10 years have been very dry.

Cheers

Robin
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Next to a Piper Cheftain. These 10 seater planes are commonly used to fly into the more remote strips.
Next to a Piper Cheftain. These 10 seater planes are commonly used to fly into the more remote strips.
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Re: Jane is working, Robin is on holiday - A weekend away

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Last weekend, we flew down to Port Lincoln - YPLC.


This is the tuna fish capital of the world. We had amazing seafood for dinner every meal :D . Tuna, king fish and of course Coffin Bay oysters.

I forgot to load the data card for the trip down, but you can see the trip back on DAN trip report number 647

Some pictures of the town of Port Lincoln follows.
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Port Lincoln township
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Re: Jane is working, Robin flying Jane to a clinic

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Jane had a clinic to do at Roxby Downs. This is an outback town built 5 years ago to service the Olympic Dam mine. Everything is new. I shall post some photos, as we have another clinic to do next Thursday.

See the trip reports 645 & 646 on DAN.

Woomera Airspace was active so we had to fly a dog leg into Olympic Dam - YOLD. Woomera is the testing range for the airforce and other agencies, they often have high speed scram rockets etc, huge areas are notam'ed from SFC to FL 060.

After a 10 hour day, we took off at night, pitch black, so rotated and straight onto instruments. I am very cautious of those night takeoffs into the pitch black.

We could see Whyalla, YWHA at night about 60 miles out.

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Re: Jane is working, Robin is on holiday so to Streaky Bay

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Hello

Jane was in the clinic all day today, so I flew out to Streaky Bay, just for something to do. See trip reports 648 & 649.

Left the camera connector at the accomodation, so will post some pictures later.

Cheers


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Re: Jane is working, Robin is on holiday

Post by Graham »

Hi Robin,

Thanks for the pics. Hoping to get down to Australia next year. My sister moved to Sydney a few years back and it is time for a visit. Thinking around Christmas next year to enjoy your summer and miss some of our winter. :-D

I have a few long dist trips coming up in Aug & Sept through northern Canada so hopefully I can post of few of those.

Cheers

Graham
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