August 2014 Screenshots

[Allan_Lowson]

Post your August 2014 screen shots here. You may change the subject to relate to your flight.

Cheers
Allan

[bareace]

Clear, AK to Tanacross, AK Random Screens

[steveg]

Working for Bluegrass now? Is that your creation? I like the color scheme.

[bareace]

Yes, the paint scheme is my own creation.

[uhug]

Well, after doing some cargo flying in PNG out of Port Morseby with landings in Kokoda, Naduri, Kagi, Menari, Efogi and Madilogo over the "Oven Stanley Ranges", I just quit. Before I ruin my nerves and break my neck, I decided to fly back to Australia, but not without my good old Beaver DHC-2! (Second hand!)

Departure out of Jacksons is not very spectacular and my destination is Murray Island in the Torres Strait.
En route: 8/8 on 5000 feet, some tailwind and seafog on Murray Island. So far the weather forecast!


So, after 1:23hr flying time, I achieved my goal. Visibility right well! Final Rwy 14 on Murray Island and I'm not alone - a twin engine is just behind me!


All set for landing on runway 14. It's a cool airstrip. Alt. 328ft, with a 525m x 18m tar surface.


Murray Island is a basaltic island formed from an extinct volcano, which was last active over a million years ago. It formed as a result when the Indo-Australian Plate slid over the East Australia hotspot. The island rises to a plateau 80 m above sea level.


The inhabitants of the Torres Strait, including the Meriam people, gained a reputation as fierce warriors and skilled mariners. Warfare (both inter-tribal and against European ships in transit through the Coral Sea) and head hunting were part of the culture of all Torres Strait islanders. The account of Jack Ireland, a surviving cabin boy from the barque Charles Eaton that was wrecked in 1834 at Detached Reef near the entrance to Torres Strait is of interest in this respect. He spent much of his time on Murray Island before being rescued. (Wikipedia)

Speared? (I need a drink after landing!)


The touch down is silk-smooth..


.. but hard to find a parking-space! Just hurry to leave the runway! Nevertheless, here I'am!

[steveg]

Hop Listing Ninevah to the Gulf Coast

Followed this river in the desert between Shaykh Mazhar and Ubaydah Bin Al Jarrah


Ox Bow lake almost forming, right next to another Ox Bow lake almost completed.


Flying south of the ISIS (Islamic State) portion of Iraq, and feeling relatively safe in the skies.

[uhug]

At YBWP (Weipa), shortly ready to fly down to YNTN (Normanton).


A VFR-Flightplan is made and it will take a while until I reach my destination. Total distance: 308NM equal 2h16min flyingtime and nearly 250lt fuel consumption <> 10%! The Beaver DHC-2 is a drunkard!!


At the hold-short-point for Rwy 12. WX: SCT060CB and wind from the east.


A short back-track for Rwy 12...


... and lining up. Fuel in the tanks: 360lt, TOW 1733kg


Off I go!


Weipa is just south of Duyfken Point, a location now agreed to be the first recorded point of European contact with the Australian continent.
Dutch explorer Willem Janszoon, on his ship the Duyfken, sighted the coast here in 1606. This was 164 years before Lieutenant James Cook sailed up the east coast of Australia.


In 1955 a geologist, Henry Evans (1912–1990), discovered that the red cliffs on the Aboriginal reserve, previously remarked on by the early Dutch explorers and Matthew Flinders, were actually enormous deposits of bauxite – the ore from which aluminium is made. The bauxite mines around Weipa today are the world's largest!
Heading west in direction Gulf of Carpentaria!


Aurukun is a town and locality in the Shire of Aurukun in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is situated approximately 100 kilometres south of Weipa. The town faces west to the Gulf of Carpentaria, and during the wet season, roads are impassable.
Swimming in this waters is not advisable - it is believed to be great breeding sites for salt water crocodiles!!


Over water heading south - on my left, the vast coast of Cape York peninsula.


Reaching the vicinity of Karumba and Norman River. Ready for descent for an RNAV approach Rwy 14 YNTN.

In the late 1930s the town Karumba was a refueling and maintenance stop for the flying boats of the Qantas Empire Airways


On a long final Rwy 14. Somewhere is a PC-12 from Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (RFDS).
Apart from that: Solitude and tranquility on CTAF - and mangrove swamps below!! A cheer for the salt water crocs!


Very good - I'm number one - the PC-12 is on a 15NM final 14


After 2h24min flying time, back on earth. A bit short!!


Vacating the runway to my left into a tiny ramp - my new homebase!


I will be awaited! Here, the CHC-2 goes for maintenance: new painting etc..
By the way: Total fuel consumption for this leg: 260lt. (She is really a drunkard!!)


Out of Normanton in the future, I will do some cargo-flights - mostly the Cape York peninsula.

There are many small airfields and mines! Aha, the doctors arrived - nothing could go wrong!