Esperance Aero Club Weekend at Myrup

[poteroo]

Some 25-30 aircraft eventually turned up on Sat 18th, after battling the widespread rain and low cloud all the way from the West Coast to Esperance. One reportedly caused an upset on MEL CEN by calling for 'help' somewhere near Ravensthorpe.... haven't heard any more on that so it must have ended in a safe landing. There were quite a few RAAus aircraft represented at Myrup - a Savannah VG, a Thruster, 4 Jabs, a Tecnam P96, a Sportstar, and a gyrocopter. There were at least 6 Cessnas of many models, a couple Pipers, a Cirrus 22, and the inevitable big bunch of RVs from Albany (5), Bunbury/Busselton (2), and Esperance (3).

 

Brian Goodwin gave us an adrenaline rush with his torque turns done at the end of each spray run with his Jetranger. Near perfect height above ground at 60 kts too.

 

The Albany RV's arrived in formation, then did another flight later in the afternoon as the weather cleared.

 

It was a good w/e.

 

 

 

 

 

[Downunder]

The aircraft over Ravo (if the one I'm thinking of) made it to a minesite with the help of melbourne. Then Hyden overnight.

 

Didn't end up making Myrup.

 

Did the right thing in my opinion and called for advice in changing weather conditions, before it got desperate.

 

From the radio chatter, I was told about, he wasn't the only one calling for assistance.

 

"Discretion is the better part of valour"

 

 

[poteroo]

Did the right thing in my opinion and called for advice in changing weather conditions, before it got desperate

Probably so. If anything, the wx was improving when we passed YNRV at around 0400z. We kept below the layer of Cu and Scu which was formed in the steady rain from higher cloud. I'm loathe to climb up in those conditions because you can get trapped 'between layers'. Our trip was a good lesson in maintaining forward visibility by keeping well clear of a cloud base in rain. As we normally use 123.45 for all our formation chatter, while leader listens out on local CTAF, or 126.7, if we are out of range of CEN repeaters - we don't hear any CEN dramas. happy days,