Whitsunday Trip

[Guest David C]

Flying up to good old Proserpine tomorrow , courtesy of Jetstar , for a few days , hopefully cyclone free . I am hoping to pop into Shute Harbour airfield during our stay and take a few photos to share . I will be no comms till the 14th March . Happy and safe flying to all .;)

 

Dave

 

 

[Guest Fred Bear]

Hey Dave,

 

Will be tracking your flight via radar, radio and acars (providing you PM us the details). Safe flight and wonderful time to yourself and Marilyn mate. Waiting for the pics...Enjoy!!! :)

 

 

[Guest David C]

Well at last I can give an account of our trip up North . We have had a few dramas on our return , my daughter badly breaking her leg and being hospitalised during our little holiday , she is recovering now , but it looks as if she will be sidelined for about 3 months minimum , but she will be ok ..

 

Anyway we departed Sydney on Jetstar A320 Airbus VH-VQV seats 29A and B , 45 Mins !! late due to storm activity , we were #14 in the departure sequence , so we spent a fair bit of time window gazing . I had checked out the weather forecast ( as all good pilots do ) for our departure , and right on cue the southerly arrived , we had 35 kt winds for out take off , right on the nose . As you would expect the take off roll was short !! .

 

Check out this cloud

 

 

 

 

 

 

We climbed out to the South before tracking over Bankstown , Richmond and then over Mudgee , St George , Emerald , Roma and then direct track to Proserpine , landing on R/W 11 , only 20 mins late after such a delayed departure . Weather on arrive was temp 29 , CAVOK and wind calm , a bit better than Sydney .

 

Departure from SYD . Check out the QF 737 lifting off r/w 16L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had a great relaxing time , not anywhere near long enough unfortunately . We did have a short look at Shute Harbour Airfield . No Ultralights there on our visit although it was quite busy with inter island transfers and sight seeing trips . A beautiful little airfield , nestled in between two hills , and I would imagine a bit of a "handfull" on anything other than a calm day . We saw , Cessna Caravan floatplanes , Beaver floaties , a few helos and this lovely Tiger Moth

 

What a beauty !!

 

 

 

 

 

We did actually see some of the islands and Airlie Beach area too !! . It is a beautiful part of the World . Our third visit there now , and it certainly gets harder to return home .

 

Airlie Beach from the Coral Sea Resort ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its a Hard Life !!

 

 

 

 

All too soon it was time to get back to the real world . The flight back was aboard VH-VQK , departing Proserpine r/w 11 , and climbing to FL350 , tracking Dysart , Taroom , Tamworth , Scone and landing SYD r/w 25, 15 mins early . We have only been back 4 days and I'm already yearing to get back .

 

I hope you enjoy reading this post as much as I did compiling it .

 

Dave

 

 

[Guest danda]

Dave great read:clap:, sorry to hear about your daughter not much of a holiday.

 

I think the last picture tells it all tall beer glass of wine plate of food and smiles all round good on you mate thanks for sharing;).

 

Don

 

 

 

[Guest Fred Bear]

Brilliant Dave, brilliant! :) Love the pics. We all know about coming back after we have been somewhere on a holiday. Reality just hits and it's back to the real-life situation. I worked on both VQV and VQK the other night mate. All on the seats you were on too!!! As I recall, we flew on both the same a/c on our trip to OOL a few months back. What a small world mate! Glad you enjoyed.

 

 

[Guest Fred Bear]

Here is VQV at work the other night:

 

 

And a very blurry one of me inside preping VQV. Same seat you were in too.That's why I had the pic taken.

 

 

[BigPete]

Dave - your photos are awesom!

 

regards

 

 

[Guest David C]

Thank you all for your kind comments ...... been back a week today !! .. Where does the time go these days ???. Almost time for planning our next holiday .