Over the Oaks

[Guest TConnor]

I was flying over the Oaks last Saturday in a PA28 at about 1630. I saw a lot of utra lights down there.

 

I'd like to pop out for a look and say g'day. What's the best way to get there by road?

 

 

[Smokey]

From Minchinbury take the M7 down to the M5 and take the Narellan Road

 

turnoff from the M5 and head for Camden, go through Narrellan and take

 

the Camden bypass to your left. You can't miss it, the bypass goes over

 

Narellen Road so you take the on ramp just before it.

 

Follow the bypass past the traffic lights which turn back into Camden

 

and take the next road on the right (about 200 metres past the lights)

 

Burragorang Road and follow that out through Mount Hunter and The Oaks,

 

the airfield is on the left on the way out of town. The access road

 

gate is on the western side of the strip.

 

There are a couple of groups out there, Daves' Flying School and Sydney Recreational FC.

 

There are a few Oaks people on this forum Pylon500 and I are with SRFC.

 

 

[Guest David C]

You may also like to drop in by air . We have quite a few visitors from Bankstown and Camden who regularly drop in for a chat and a cuppa . I'm away till the end of October , Darren who also frequents The Oaks is out in Western NSW at the moment , but he will be back in a week or so . One thing for sure ...... that is , you will be most welcome no matter how you get there .

 

Dave

 

 

[Thruster87]

Howdy, Do they have a tail dragger on line ? Need to get that endorsement. Cheers

 

 

[Ultralights]

i almost got banned from an old GA flying school for taking a Piper

 

Archer into The Oaks, i hired it from Bankstown, flew to The

 

Oaks, then has an hour lesson in the Jabiru, then flew the Archer back

 

to bankstown, unfortunatly the CFI at bankstown noticed a bit of

 

mud on the horizontal stab,:;)2:

 

and asked how it got there, i told him i went to the oaks,

 

he then grilled me on how the archer is not suitable for unsealed

 

runways and the Oaks was way to short to operate safely from!:;)4:

 

i said i had done my calculations and the runway at the oaks was more

 

than sufficient, he got mad at me challenging his authority i

 

guess, and suggested i reconsider before hiring an aircraft from them

 

again........ i guess that was the catalyst needed to

 

convince me the RAA was the way to go... not that i take great

 

delight in taking an RAA registred aircraft and park it in front of

 

that old flying school and when i return from the hamburger shop or

 

pilot shop, there are always students from his school looking over or

 

enquring about the aircraft, (its a Jabiru)

 

come to think of it, landing the Archer at The Oaks was the

 

smoothest landing i had ever done... think i used about 1/2 of

 

the strip length in a fully fueled archer, and about the same taking

 

off.

 

Ultralights

 

 

[Smokey]

Howdy' date=' Do they have a tail dragger on line ? Need to get that endorsement. Cheers[/quote']

 

Hi Thruster

 

Sydney Recreationl FC, have 2 Lightwings, both tail draggers. Thanks to

 

Mr Telecommunications, our bookings are quite light at the moment so

 

now would be a good time to jump in before we pick up again. Bookings

 

0425 251 939 or you could drop Pylon500 a note here.

 

Dave's Flying School also has access to a Lightwing taildragger, sorry I don't have a number for Dave.

 

Mark

[PaulN]

Hey Smokey,

 

Reading your road directions to The Oaks confirms whyIlike living in Cooma ....

 

"Where's the airport?"

 

Pointing - "Just head down that road 15 clicks and you're there".

 

 

[Student Pilot]

Hey Smokey, Reading your road directions to The Oaks confirms whyIlike living in Cooma ....

 

"Where's the airport?"

 

Pointing - "Just head down that road 15 clicks and you're there".

Or just go to the east side of town near the hill and the big tower.

 

 

[PaulN]

Hi Cecil,

 

Oh yeah, that one with the 300ft radio mast just off the end of rwy 18 .

 

When were you last at Polo Flat? Are you a mate of Mike? He was the one who introduced me to RA-Aus aviation and trained me up.

 

Paul

 

 

[Student Pilot]

Didn't know Mike had any mates would be a couple of years since I was at Polo flat. It was when the fires were on I was running a few bits and some crew around. Those 802's ripped sh*t out of the strip, it looked nearly buggered.

 

 

[PaulN]

Those 802's ripped sh*t out of the strip' date=' it looked nearly buggered.[/quote'] Still does . I don't think Mike has enough time to do much about it, not to mention ready cash.

[Guest Fred Bear]

Mate, as mentioned SRFC has some tail draggers. You can find more info on Daves Flying School at this link: http://davesflyingschool.spaces.live.com/

 

As Dave C mentioned you will be more than welcome wherever you go. You will p$!! that aircraft into The Oaks. It' an 800m strip. We regularly have visitors in the same type and they rotate at about 450m. darrenmasters