Dustyone
Well Known Member
The Mission ,
My neighbour at the airfield had departed on a family holiday around Australia some 7 days earlier only to become stranded in the remote Australian town of Coober Pedy in his Mooney M20J.
A plan was hatched to fly the owner,engineer and support crew with required parts the 1000 Nm from YRED ,Redcliffe to YBCP Coober Pedy . We would leave the owner with his repaired aircraft and return the next day another 1000 Nm.
My RV-10 was fuelled and loaded for a Saturday morning departure.
The first refuelling was at Thargominda,a small country town in far western Queensland where we had the pleassure of paying $3.09 / Litre for Avgas .
From Thargominda it was a direct track to Coober Pedy.
The direct track meant we would overfly The Strzelecki Desert ,
Next was to overfly the inland lake called "Lake Eyre ".
Lake Eyre, officially known as Kati Thanda?Lake Eyre, contains the lowest natural point in Australia, at approximately 15 m below sea level, and, on the rare occasions that it fills, is the largest lake in Australia, covering 9,500 km?.
Lake Eyre sometimes only fills once in every decade,we were blessed to see it at near capacity.
My neighbour at the airfield had departed on a family holiday around Australia some 7 days earlier only to become stranded in the remote Australian town of Coober Pedy in his Mooney M20J.
A plan was hatched to fly the owner,engineer and support crew with required parts the 1000 Nm from YRED ,Redcliffe to YBCP Coober Pedy . We would leave the owner with his repaired aircraft and return the next day another 1000 Nm.
My RV-10 was fuelled and loaded for a Saturday morning departure.
The first refuelling was at Thargominda,a small country town in far western Queensland where we had the pleassure of paying $3.09 / Litre for Avgas .
From Thargominda it was a direct track to Coober Pedy.
The direct track meant we would overfly The Strzelecki Desert ,
Next was to overfly the inland lake called "Lake Eyre ".
Lake Eyre, officially known as Kati Thanda?Lake Eyre, contains the lowest natural point in Australia, at approximately 15 m below sea level, and, on the rare occasions that it fills, is the largest lake in Australia, covering 9,500 km?.
Lake Eyre sometimes only fills once in every decade,we were blessed to see it at near capacity.