The 2024 Australian Air Rally - The FBO

[taoftedal]

3 hours ago, ScottishMike said:

“Tell you what.” the Wombat interjected: “You fly this buzz box, if we see something ...

 

Yup ... you need to ditch the Wombat ... 

[TomPenDragon]

The Daily Update

(Cue “She Sells Sanctuary”)

 

CU: “Hello and welcome to the Daily Update for the 24th of January, 2024. I’m Claudine Ullrich for Radio Chachapoya. Elias is in the left seat today as we go storm hunting.”

 

EP: “We’ve just passed Rockhampton and are headed to Mackay, flying at 4,500’. So far, the weather’s been pretty nice. We’re seeing some scattered, high cirrus, but little else. What we do have is a 40-knot tailwind, courtesy of Tropical Cyclone Kirrily, the storm formerly known as 05U.

 

“The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has Kirrily listed as a Category 1 cyclone currently, with winds of 75 kph, gusting to 100. It is tracking west-southwest at 16 kph, and is expected to reach Cat 2 status by 10:00 local time on the 25th. METARs for Townsville and Cairns are both reporting no clouds and light winds right now, but their TAFs predict that the rains will start shortly. The storm itself is showing cloud tops above 34,000’. Pilots are advised to visit www.bom.gov.au/aviation for further details and to track Kirrily as it makes landfall and moves inland. Landfall is expected on Thursday, near Townsville, after which it is expected to weaken, slow, and disperse, bringing intense rains to Queensland throughout the weekend and into next week. High seas and rapidly-shifting surface winds make ocean floatplane operations unadvisable along the northeastern Australian coast until Kirrily’s effects have fully dissipated – at least throughout next week, I reckon.”

 

CU: “So everyone be safe out there. How’s our Leaderboard today:”

 

 

EP: “ViperPilot2 is still showing in the lead, at Caiguna.”

 

CU: “defaid is in Adelaide, now solidly in second with his CV of 2.”

 

EP: “We have a new racer on the course: JSMR, for Team Nuns of Fun and sponsored by Bundaberg Rum, has jumped into third in his Cessna Centurion, with a CV of 2 at Katanning.”

 

CU: “Still enjoying the wonderful cuisine and urban atmosphere of Caiguna, Double D is in fourth with a -3. What is it with Caiguna and helicopter pilots, anyway?”

 

EP: “And The Bosss has made it to Renmark. He’s currently the head of the pack, course-wise, but an 8-minute early arrival yesterday has dropped him into fifth place with a -6 CV.”

 

CU: “ScottishMike rounds out the field with a CV of 9 at Forrest, for sixth place.”

 

EP: “And this concludes our Daily Update. We are Elias Pacheco…”

 

CU: “...and Claudine Ullrich…”

 

EP: “...for Radio Chachapoya, signing off. Have a great flying day…”

 

CU: “...and spare a thought for those in Cyclone Kirrily’s path. Bye, bye.”

[JSMR]

I'm on the board! A nice little +2 V. Happy with the performance of the 210. One sexy fast aircraft. 

Screens to follow. 

[Melo965]

Had a busy afternoon and evening here at Newman yesterday.
The RAAF contacted me and told me that the USAF C-133B Cargomaster would be landing here soon.

 

They are bringing the other version of the Chipmunk, the DHC-1B here on the cargo plane.  They want me to swap to the multi-panelled sliding canopy version and also test fly it for a potential RAAF order.  So I will be flying the version more commonly used in the UK for the next three legs of the journey.

 

They are going to crate up the DHC1-B-2 bubble canopy aircraft and fly it down to RAAF Pearce base.  When I get to the base, I will swap back to the bubble canopy version for the race across Australia.

 

An added bonus of their visit last evening was that the USAF guys really helped me out by installing the same Sperry Autopilot they use in the C-133B Cargomaster in both Chippies for me.  The Chipmunk has been hard to fly steadily on a heading up to now because of previously described fuel imbalance between the wing tanks.

 

So onward in a similar aircraft from Newman (YNWN) to Meekatharra (YMEK) to Mount Magnet (YMOG) to RAAF Pearce (YPEA). 

 

   

[PhrogPhlyer]

After an unexpected setback with the tail rotor gearbox replacement, a second night of culinary delights at the RoadKill Roadhouse, followed by sleeping under the stars at Caiguna, Capt. Dirk Doovalaky takes to the air again.  Unfortunately, the weather has turned againt him, and it looks like rain and gusty winds the whole day. 160.4nm and 1+06 to Forrest.

 

Not one of the nicer days to fly. Clouds are thickening everywhere I look.

 

As I get closer the clouds and rain lessen and Forrest comes into view.

 

Touching down and a brief rest before I’m off into the fray again. 297.2 nm and 1+58 to Ceduna.

 

Finally a landmark, the coast. 65 miles over water. Not the Army’s favorite location.

 

Glad that half hour is behind me, LAND HO!

 

Staying 1500ft AGL of less to stay under this thickening deck. Will this rain ever end? Ceduna off the nose.

 

A quick touch and go at Ceduna. The sun peaked out just enough to shine on the wet ramp. 205nm and 1+25 to Port Augusta.

 

And so the day continues, a dark and dreary cloud deck for miles and miles.

 

Trying to spot Port Augusta through the rain. It should be somewhere before this lake.

 

There it is, Port Augusta.

 

Safe on deck, but not for long. From the runway of Port Augusta the skies still look quite threatening. 144.4nm and 1+11 to Parafield.

 

Another long dreary leg towards Parafield. Pretty strong turbulence, blistering rain, visibility varying to nearly non-existent. The cloud deck has been getting thicker and lower. I think a divert to RAAF Base Edinburg is in order.

 

Barely can see RAAF Base Edinburgh with the visibility going well below 2 miles.

 

Safe on deck, collective bottomed out and twist throttle to Idle. These Air Force lads are great, hot fueled the main tank and brought me fresh coffee. I gave them each a BH AAR race patch as a thank you. I think I’ll just sit here and wait for this squall line to pass.

 

A quick hop skip and a jump to Parafield. A little bit of rain, but at least the sky seems to be clearing a bit.

 

A very quick visit and I depart Parafield. 107.3nm and 0+43 to Renmark.

 

A quick hop skip and a jump to Renmark, I hope.

 

The rain has finally stopped. It’s been a long day. The sky is rapidly darkening as I approach Renmark.

 

On the ground at Renmark. Looking for a parking spot, dinner, and some well-earned sleep. I’ll wait ‘til the morning to worry about the rest of the route.

 

Today I flew 914.3nm (plus a few more to divert to Edinburg).

Planned for 6+23 flight time, but with the poor weather I logged 7+10 hours (47 minutes more/slower than planned). Not the best race time, but at least I stayed relatively safe.

 

Plus time = longer than planned, minus time = shorter than planned ( I hope that’s right)?

Forrest (+3)

Ceduna (+12)

Port Augusta (+9)

Parafield (+27)

Renmark (-4)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[PhrogPhlyer]

1 hour ago, Melo965 said:

They are bringing the other version of the Chipmunk, the DHC-1B here on the cargo plane.  They want me to swap to the multi-panelled sliding canopy version and also test fly it for a potential RAAF order.  So I will be flying the version more commonly used in the UK for the next three legs of the journey.

Will be interesting to hear your opinion of the benefits and/or detractors to of the two variants.

 

The late Art Scholl flew the bubble version.

[ViperPilot2]

YCAG - YFRT:

 

TT - 1h 04m

AT - 1h 05m

V = +1

[JSMR]

I'm WAY behind on the race, however, it was for a reasonably good reason. As you'll see shortly. 

At Jandakot. C210 prepped and ready to go. 

Climbing out. Heading to first waypoint. 54 mins was the planned time for the route according to Skyvector. 

 

Leaving Perth behind. 

 

AT cruising altitude. 5500. 30mp / 2400rpm power settings. So fairly aggressive.

  

Sexy! And not a nun in sight...

A little green for that part of the world. I will change textures for the next flight. 

Descent has began. Slowly reduce mp. She's a slippery aircraft. 

YKNG. And reason for my delay. A little bit of 'enhancement'. Wait till we get closer. L O L. I got a little excited.  Lots of screens to come. Sorry. 

Ok, so I went a little crazy on the grass.   (56min on timer)

 

More, grass. Some cones. Some hangers and buildings facing wrong way to kinda mimic the YKNG airport. ADE makes it so easy. 
Wispy reedy like grass. Kinda cool. Of course, all that grass brought down the fps from 30 locked to 22-24 on approach. Oops. Still ok. 

 

Parked on the dirt as an RFDS aircraft inbound. Flight over. Time for some refreshment then the next leg to YNSM. After I mess around with ADE some more...

 

 

[Rupert]

28 minutes ago, JSMR said:

I'm WAY behind on the race, however, it was for a reasonably good reason. As you'll see shortly. 

At Jandakot. C210 prepped and ready to go. 

Climbing out. Heading to first waypoint. 54 mins was the planned time for the route according to Skyvector. 

 

Leaving Perth behind. 

 

AT cruising altitude. 5500. 30mp / 2400rpm power settings. So fairly aggressive.

  

Sexy! And not a nun in sight...

A little green for that part of the world. I will change textures for the next flight. 

Descent has began. Slowly reduce mp. She's a slippery aircraft. 

YKNG. And reason for my delay. A little bit of 'enhancement'. Wait till we get closer. L O L. I got a little excited.  Lots of screens to come. Sorry. 

Ok, so I went a little crazy on the grass.   (56min on timer)

 

More, grass. Some cones. Some hangers and buildings facing wrong way to kinda mimic the YKNG airport. ADE makes it so easy. 
Wispy reedy like grass. Kinda cool. Of course, all that grass brought down the fps from 30 locked to 22-24 on approach. Oops. Still ok. 

 

Parked on the dirt as an RFDS aircraft inbound. Flight over. Time for some refreshment then the next leg to YNSM. After I mess around with ADE some more...

 

 

 

Great flight comments and screen shots!  And yes while simming I've noticed several airport scenery layouts worldwide end up with hangers facing the wrong direction for easy aircraft access.

 

Your sim weather conditions there look a whole lot better than RW here near KLOU.  I'm estimating my RW local visibility at about 50 yards in fog right now. 

 

My current weather reminds me of the RW weather that sometimes showed up by the end night flying when I was flying H-34s or 46s out of MCAF Santa Ana California,  When taking off around sunset visibility would often be 10-15 miles.  Two hours later visibility might be down to100 yards or less.

 

 

[PhrogPhlyer]

46 minutes ago, JSMR said:

After I mess around with ADE some more...

So addicting!

The 210 and the scenery looks great.

Well done.

[ViperPilot2]

It's my understanding that the Centurion is a very popular airplane for flying Down Under; Speed, Range and Payload make for a comfortable ride when traversing the vastness of the Continent. 

[JSMR]

6 minutes ago, PhrogPhlyer said:

So addicting!

The 210 and the scenery looks great.

Well done.

Hey thanks. I'm not the greatest at figuring out stuff with scenery design, but once it was mentioned about using the library objects through ADE, well, there went my time. lol. 

The 210 is a fun bird. I need to use it some more. 

[JSMR]

3 minutes ago, ViperPilot2 said:

It's my understanding that the Centurion is a very popular airplane for flying Down Under; Speed, Range and Payload make for a comfortable ride when traversing the vastness of the Continent. 

Yeah lots of charter companies use em in NT / WA etc.  Take her up high and she cruises pretty fast. 170-180 KTAS easily. 

[ViperPilot2]

1 hour ago, JSMR said:

I'm WAY behind on the race...

 

Far as I'm concerned, there's no such thing...

[taoftedal]

On 1/19/2024 at 7:36 PM, MAD1 said:

If the organizers deem the event is nominally based around RW weather, then they might have to consider re-routing the east coast event to ... end at Darwin.

 

On 1/19/2024 at 9:17 PM, Melo965 said:

I am already here ... does that mean I win!

 

21 hours ago, JSMR said:

I'm on the board! 

 

Happy to find you on the board JSMR ... I was starting to think that as soon as Melo headed south you may have been on your way to Darwin ... 

[MAD1]

The Chachapoya Chronicle. Travel and cultural news. By your Aussie Correspondent. 8:25 a.m. Friday 26 January, Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT).

 

Cyclone Kirilly. Thankfully it has now deteriorated to a low and has gone west and expected to continue west, having crossed at Townsville during the night. Little damage, 53,000 people without electricity. For the air race, it is no longer an issue. So, full steam ahead for the Eastern leg.

 

Australia Day. Happy Australia Day. The Canberra ceremony is formal and interesting. You can watch it live, starts at 9 a.m AEDT. Over 320 citizenship ceremonies across the country today and over 15,000 people becoming citizens.

 

[MAD1]

I'm still at Katanning. Now I have 3 days non-RW so hope to do 2 legs: Katanning to Norseman and land. Next day via Caiguna (waypoint only) to Forrest and land. (Am happy just to be involved, all very new for me, much to learn, and if I only do a few legs and then drop out, that's OK. Will post time for leg 1 after getting help from TomPenDragon re calcs, and have got half prepared my pics (50, compiling into a single small mosaic.)

[jgf]

13 minutes ago, MAD1 said:

I'm still at Katanning

 

I'm still sitting at Forrest, wave as you go by.

[TomPenDragon]

The Daily Update

(Cue “She Sells Sanctuary”)

 

EP: “Hello and welcome to our Update for the 25th of January, 2024. We are Elias Pacheco and Claudine Ullrich for Radio Chachapoya. I am in the right seat today. So, where are we flying, Claus?”

 

CU: “We’re an hour out from Perth, Eli. Last night I asked you how the M992 was on a long cruise, and you said, ‘Let’s find out.’ We planned a literal cross-country – Cairns to Perth, at 24,000’. 1,900 miles, via Mt. Isa, Alice Springs, Uluru, and Kalgoorlie. We both wanted to see if she’d make it that far without a stop – which would give you some peace of mind about whether she could make it from Japan to the Aleutians. We’ve also been debating the best way to lean the engine.”

 

EP: “I’m an old guy – I’m going to be 70 this year. I took my first flying lesson 47 years ago. What I learned back then was to lean the engine to around 50°F rich of peak EGT, and I’ve always stuck with that. It was the best balance between optimum power – peak fuel flow, around 120°F rich of peak – and fuel economy – Sara here’ll drink 18 gallons per hour at peak power and 16 at 50°F ROP."

 

CU: “And along comes this Millennial to upset your apple cart.”

 

EP: “A Millennial with a Doctorate in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic, who happens to be the leader of the team that built Sara. So I figured it was best to at least give her the opportunity to prove her point, which is what we’re doing heading back to Jandakot, her point being…”

 

CU: “The exact same point Mike Busch of SavvyAviation made at the 2021 AirVenture – I sent you the slide show.Savvy-EAA Webinar - 2021-07-27 1000 F7 Leaning the Right Way.pdf Leaning an aircraft engine isn’t about mixture management; it’s about heat management. The people who wrote the POHs of the aircraft that you learned to fly in didn’t have the information that we have today. The sensors are a lot better, and there are a lot more of them.

 

“In a nutshell, if fuel – either buying it or having enough of it in the tanks to get where you’re going – is no object, you can fly a little faster and burn a lot more avgas by using a true Best Power setting – the EGT will be down maybe 100°F or more from peak and fuel flow will be at its maximum for your power setting. If you don’t mind losing a few knots of airspeed but want to go a lot farther, a lot cleaner, maybe even save the planet a little, you want to be somewhat lean-of-peak, maybe 30°F to 70°F.

 

“The net is, you want to keep the CHT below 380°F – the PFM420 in Sara here uses different materials, but for the sake of safety, let’s treat it like a new Lycoming…”

 

EP: “We don’t know the engine’s temperature range? And PFM420? I mean, I like the number, but I thought it was a PFM400.”

 

CU: “It’s a new engine. Porsche’s number is the rated horsepower, rounded to something the marketing people can live with. You’ve flown a Porsche-built Mooney; you know its PFM400 is a four-banger. Sara’s got a six. Porsche was trying to build a six-cylinder engine with 400 bhp, so their preliminary designation reflected that. With the current turbocharging system, it’s putting out about 423. 425 – something like that. So, PFM420.”

 

EP: “So we’re testing Porsche’s engine for them.”

 

CU: “Porsche’s testing the engine, too – they just haven’t found a way to break it yet. They put it on the test rig, punish the crap out of it for a couple of weeks, tear it apart, and it looks like new. So they put it back together, punish the crap out of it for another couple of weeks, tear it down, and it still looks like new. The block, crank, cylinders, and pistons all have more than 20,000 hours now, and they can’t tell the parts from the new ones in the boxes. We can ask them when we get to Jandakot, but last I checked, they were running it around 50” of manifold pressure and putting out more than 600 horses. They’ve run it full throttle blasting hot air – 66°C, then cut it to idle and blown carbon dioxide over it at minus 70°C, and the only casualty was a researcher who suffered hypercapnia from breathing in the CO2. The CHTs dropped below 0° in seconds and the cylinder walls just laughed at the humans trying to crack them.”

 

EP: “So the engine’s basically indestructible?”

 

CU: “Unless you want to find out halfway between Chitose and Eareckson, let’s treat it like a Lycoming, okay? But I’d say that we can have the same degree of confidence in it that we would a carefully broken-in, factory-new Lycoming with 150 hours on it.”

 

EP: “I like that. And now for today’s Leaderboard:

 

 

“ViperPilot2 retains his lead, now at Forrest with a CV of 1.

 

“defaid’s CV of 2 after 7 legs completed is good enough to keep him in second place.

 

“JSMR remains in Katanning with a CV of 2, in third.

 

“Bossspecops is now in fourth, with a CV of -6 after 8 legs.

 

“ScottishMike is in fifth and in Forrest, with a CV of 9.

 

“And Double D… Nearly a thousand miles. More than 7 hours. Rain and low ceilings that forced him to divert to RAAF Edinburgh while coming into Parafield. He’s made it safely to Renmark, though his 44-minute CV has dropped him into sixth place.

 

“And Dr. Ullrich is throttling back and starting to descend into YPJT. We made it without having to refuel. Nine hours in the air. 1,900 miles. Fuel burn a little under 14 gallons per hour. Lean of peak – I think I’m becoming a believer.

 

“This concludes our Daily Update. We are Dr. Claudine Ullrich and Elias Pacheco for Radio Chachapoya, signing off. Happy Australia Day!!”

[Melo965]

23 hours ago, PhrogPhlyer said:

Will be interesting to hear your opinion of the benefits and/or detractors to of the two variants.

 

The late Art Scholl flew the bubble version.

 

Long story short is that I will be flying the multi-panelled sliding canopy version (DHC-1B) from now on during this Rally.  The bubble canopy version (DHC1-B-2) has a stuck fuel lever in the VC cockpit.  It will not budge from the left wing tank, so I have been manually transferring fuel from right tank to left during each flight.  My arms were getting tired working that jury rigged fuel pump.

 

The DHC-1B version feeds fuel from both wing tanks simultaneously! 

 

It was tragic that we lost Art Scholl during the filming of Top Gun.  "The Great Waldo Pepper" was a great movie that he also flew flying sequences for.  Another famous pilot who also died was Paul Mantz in 1965 during the filming of "The Flight of the Phoenix" starring Jimmy Stewart. 

[Melo965]

 

Ready to start engine in the rain at Newman.  Flying the Chipmunk DHC-1B.

 

Here is the weather for this leg of the journey.

 

On course and leaving Newman behind.

 

One hour into the flight.

 

With the bubble canopy version I had to manually transfer fuel from the right wing tank to the left wing tank periodically.  I was thrilled to see that this Chipmunk version, the DHC-1B does not have that problem.  When I checked the fuel tanks to move fuel, discovered that fuel is being used equally from both wing tanks automatically.  My In-Flight workload is getting much easier! 

I know my way around an aircraft.cfg file pretty well, but was unable to fix the fuel tank issue in the Bubble Canopy DHC1-B-2. 

 

Airport in sight ahead.

 

Town of Meekatharra in front of my nose on the left.
Meekatharra was a gold rush town originally.  Now there are less than 800 people living there.

 

On final approach.

 

Touchdown close to the numbers.

 

Parked in the rain.

Next stop Mount Magnet (YMOG)

I wonder if my compass will still work there. 

 

[Melo965]

Meekatharra (YMEK) to Mount Magnet (YMOG)

 

Here is the weather for this leg of the journey.

 

Ready to start engine on this cloudy day.

 

On course and leaving Meekatharra behind.

 

Flying over some huge lakes less than 15 minutes into the flight.

 

More lakes and clouds.  Really glad to be under that cloud deck.

 

Mount Magnet airport in sight.

 

On final approach.

 

Landed safely.

 

Parked at Mount Magnet.

 

Next flight is a longer leg to RAAF Base Pearce. (YPEA)

 

When I get there, will advise the RAAF to only order this DHC-1B version, at least until the bubble canopy Chippie fuel issues can be properly remedied.

 

[PhrogPhlyer]

5 hours ago, MAD1 said:

Am happy just to be involved

Be careful, this gets more addicting with each leg you fly.

 

[MAD1]

The Chachapoya Chronicle. Culture news, part 1. Australia Day, Saturday 26 January 2024.

 

Route

 

As promised, your loyal correspondent wanted to post RW cultural info about the route ahead, but the Gaggle has got ahead of me. So here it is in retrospect for most flyers.

 

Ceduna

 

Defaid mentioned the radio telescope. It's the former satellite earth station, now a part of the University of Tasmania radio astronomy facilities.
https://southaustralia.com/products/eyre-peninsula/attraction/otc-satellite-earth-station
https://www.utas.edu.au/natural-sciences/physics/ceduna-observatory

 

A few flyers have mentioned the 'pristine white beaches and cliffs'. This reporter's understanding is it isn't pleasant, a harsh location, difficult to swim, and Great White Pointer sharks are known to live along that stretch. Also, facing the Great Southern Ocean, the swells roll in, no pleasant bays. Only a few fool-hardly, slighlty mad surfboard riders go there (and sometimes a shark gets one). If you want a nice beach for a swim, wait until Adelaide or better still, along the east coast. Hint, if you see a beach from the air, look at the habitation, no habitation, nobody on the beach, well, it probably isn't a nice place.

 

Lake Gardiner, Lake Torrens and other saltpans

 

The land is very flat, and the drainage network doesn't reach the ocean. The most famous 'lake' is Lake Eyre, which only has water in it every few years. (It fills from major floods in western QLD). There isn't any outlet, it's actually below sea level, water evaporates, leaving a saltpan. Many such features exist between Ceduna and Port Augusta. Lake Gardiner is the big one Bossspecops mentioned. (Also, he's using RW weather and the heavy weather he flew through was the big band that slid across the bottom of the continent.
https://www.parks.sa.gov.au/parks/lake-gairdner-national-park

 

Woomera, 181 km by road (Google Maps states 1h52m driving time) north of Port Augusta. Not on the race route, but an interesting excursion. Australia's Cape Canaveral or probably more apt, Edwards Air Force Base, for rockets, but like many things out here, in the past. The British used it for testing missiles during the Cold War, including nuclear tests (at Maralinga), from 1947 to the 1960's. Tourists can visit. YPWR is RAAF and it seems not available to GA aircraft. Was and perhaps still involves some secret business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woomera,_South_Australia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAAF_Base_Woomera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAAF_Woomera_Range_Complex

 

Defaid's comments about the meteorite impact and mass extinction is interesting.

 

Port Augusta

 

Back to civilisation now. From here south-eastwards the land becomes more pleasant, a little bit, down to Adelaide (Parafield). An amazing engineering story from the 1870s is the Overland Telegraph Line, from Adelaide via Port Augusta to Darwin. Until it was operational, info from London took weeks and months by mail by ship (it took 4 months by sailing ship London to Sydney, via the Cape of Good Hope, or the Suez Canal which opened Nov 1869). It opened up 'modern' telecommunications (via Morse).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Overland_Telegraph_Line

 

The Port Augusta river defaid spent the night on is actually an estuary, saltwater, being the northern end of Spencer Gulf. (Hot, harsh, dry, no pleasant beach and not a beach-babe in sight!)
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.4543585,137.7553894,3a,90y,317.9h,78.5t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPLXyD-TKqX5nKPysnlktlxfcAt5NxWsmyY4Haa!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPLXyD-TKqX5nKPysnlktlxfcAt5NxWsmyY4Haa%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya145.89362-ro-0-fo100!7i10000!8i5000?entry=ttu

[Bossspecops]

I took a day off from flying y'day, not because I was so enhanced with the scenery and night life in Naracoorte but because my laptop didn't want to run Active Sky, and I'm committed to fly the Rally in RW weather. 

 

I've re-downloaded it now and re-installed it and it seems to be working OK, so I'll be off to Warrnambool later today.