Annual Australia Day Bbq At Katoomba Airfield

[zedman]

As usual, the annual Australia Day BBQ was held yesterday at Katoomba Airfield (YKAT), so I thought I’d let you guys know that YKAT is still alive and kicking.

 

It was quite warm and sunny, so much fun was had by everyone. We didn’t play our traditional game of cricket today, although we brought the kit, but ended up playing bocce for hours.

 

The highlight of the day was when the NPWS (National Park and Wildlife Service) aircraft, VH-NPW, came to land at the airfield. The pilot had to pick up an Air Assault Specialist (a fire spotter) as there were reports of bush fires near Orange. They ended up flying as far north as Gosford, down to Cowra, then across to Mudgee – and then flew back to YKAT at about 6.30pm to drop off the spotter.

 

See The Zedman blog for more details, photos, and videos:http://zedman.org/general-news/australia-day-at-katoomba-airfield

 

 

[Guest David C]

Thanks for posting that info James ..good to hear that all is well and kicking along at YKAT .. Perhaps you can keep us in the loop regarding the happenings at Katoomba .. A nice bit of video too on the Zedman blog ..

 

Dave C

 

 

[Guest JabJockey]

Watch out, you never know when another forum owner will claim copyright to your post which is on his Forum as well.....

 

 

[Guest DWB]

James good to hear YKAT is still operating. Are there any BBQ days scheduled from time to time? Good to know if so of upcoming days. A group of us at Scone last Saturday were discussing where we could fly to as a small group but it is a whole better experience if you can get a cuppa & a small feed when you get there plus meeting new people. At Scone we always have the kettle boiled on Saturday mornings & if we know a group is coming (small or large) we can organise a BBQ if desired. But since we are no longer a (hangar) building club now we intend to get out & about a bit more.