There goes Jack
and there goes Stephen
There's a severe turbulence forecast over Melbourne at the moment from the surface up to 7
000 feet now we can find it it's very doable but it's not going to be very comfortable and
ordinarily I wouldn't fly on a day like today but this is the last time I'm gonna get to
fly with the guys here in moorabbin airport for at least the next three weeks so we want
to make the most of it and we're going to head north to hopefully try and find better weather
foreign
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behind me it's blowing over the aircraft and by pushing the stick forward I move the elevator
down so the wind is less likely to pick up the tail as we're taxing down here in a straight
line so when the wind's a lot stronger you've got a few more things that you need to think about
not just in the air but when you're actually on the ground as well taxing around there's
a few more considerations when it's Gusty like today okay surely is clear to mount Beauty via
Melbourne plant Drew climbed three thousand three six seven four and passing 2500 one two
nine decimal four now that's my clearance I've got I've only been cleared up to three thousand feet
right in the turbulent layer but um hopefully once I speak to Melbourne after that I'll get
some information Echo Yankee Zulu is ready holding Point Alpha rate departure via Melbourne takeoff
that's because there's no one else here at moorabbin because no one else is uh
well very few other people are flying today
okay
let's give this a go
power is full air speeds increasing
temperatures are good
and we're up
with stations information Oscar win 340 degrees minimum one five maximum at three five knots
Crosswinds still up to one zero and then q and H one zero one one and there's the bumps already
500 feet caps is now available oh make a left turn
yikes
that is ugly ugly ugly weather [Applause] departures Echo Yankee Zulu passing 2 600
climbing three thousand departures identify climb eight thousand climb 8 000. brilliant that's
exactly what I wanted because if I was going to be held at 3 000 I'd be held in the bumps
but because they had traffic control have cleared me to keep my climb going up to 8 000. it means
I'll be in the bumps for less time and to be honest with you we're at three thousand feet
I don't want to let go for too long but yeah Letting Go the controls are actually
this feels so much smoother than it did on ground level your requested level won't be
available I can offer you eight or ten thousand what would you prefer
okay Yankee is all the return right now heading zero three zero right zero three zero okay
I'll show you an interesting thing on the map so I've just got that turned zero three zero that's
uh me a little blue plane and the purple line is the direction I should be going in so Air Traffic
Control obviously want me to get out the way of the uh traffic that's coming into Melbourne
International Airport which will be over in that direction for me so if they're coming in and
I'm going this way they've turned me so we can kind of scoot around the outside of each other
Julie turn left here three five zero Okay so
Okay navigation directs Mangalore navigation direct Mangalore oh that's dead easy on here
I just got a flight plan I find Bangalore I go Direct [Applause]
They Go activate and then I come down here GPS steering five thousand sixty five and then you can
see on the G500 txis here I've now got this nice straight path to Mangalore my original Flight Plan
had to be going to Melbourne and then across but I've managed to cut out this whole Corner because
we're out of the way of all the landing traffic that's coming into Melbourne International now
that's my 1 000 foot call out so I just passed 7000 feet I got a thousand feet to go until I
get to well eight thousand that's you know eight minus seven is one it's lovely up here [Music]
okay Yankee Zulu contact departures 118 [Applause] .
Eva Jack just checking in
yeah I was quite lucky they had me at 3 000 then let me cut the corner direct Mangalore
so I'm eight thousand uh just a beam well just about 10 miles north of Melbourne now yeah I
finally got clearance so I'm on climb seven and a half just past Sugarloaf heading to language
yeah it looks like European me down one two three days four seven five we're pretty much
in line with each other 97 climb to one zero thousand I'm gonna be underneath you pretty
soon I think Steven looking at this you're in um controlled airspace I'm out of it now
on a normal day if it wasn't for flying with other people I don't think I would have done this flight
if it was just me in fact no I shouldn't say that trying to be all Hero if it was just me on my own
I wouldn't have done this flight today but because I'm here with friends that's the what's your
ETA to wangaratta I've got zero two zero eight for wangaratta how about you zero two zero yeah
it looks like I'm interviewing greater zero three so I'm gonna be in front of you guys yeah it looks
like on those timings it's uh Jack menu than me and it's little things like that as well just
having the reassurance reassurance of friends in the air with you as well just to like now
I know the Jack's gonna get to a waypoint first and then Steven's there and then it's me and we
can kind of share information I think I'm finding the older I get it's not just with my flying but
in all walks of my life as I progress through life I'm realizing more and more that if I do
things with other people I generally tend to enjoy them more and for someone like me who's a bit of
a loner and really enjoys and Embraces my own Solitude to push myself beyond my comfort zone
it can't be a bad thing
our destination today is a place called Mount Beauty and it's kind of over there
where all those clouds are so we're gonna see if we can get underneath
um and now I'm just starting a descent down to I've gone 4 500 because that will get me
underneath the airspace in Albury it also means that hopefully I can get underneath
the clouds that are up ahead and have a look underneath them to see what it
looks like whether we can get down the valley and land at this airport called Mount Beauty
oh where do we go and if we don't we'll come out of there and go somewhere else maybe somewhere
like wank around or Aubry instead we've all got plenty of fuel and we built a lot of contingency
into today's flight to allow us to make those sorts of decisions well I can see a little Gap
to fit through at cancuner I might give that a go yeah it looks like it's a pretty straight rally
see if you can get to it if you can see through it you'll be able to go through it let's get rid
of the autopilot and hand fly this one in I think you want the left-hand Valley from here oh yeah
okay thank you mate I'm about three minutes away from it and yeah you want to go left on
that one yeah and then up to the substation and down yeah as you get the better for the
there's a bigger Valley and then yeah I'm so up towards the main Valley we're trying to get to
okay thank you Steph I'm going to come back to about one 120 knots I say that's good
what indicator say to you Jack on 135 if I'm just flying down now trying to stay behind you so what
a nice part of the world to be flying in it is very pretty how's your train system going Steph
I'm just waiting for it to go off actually it's all right now but with that big peak up in front
of me it's gonna start scream screaming in a minute we're about to you guys at the moment
overhead Cancun are basically at the end of the valley almost about to turn right
towards man Beauty okay good yeah you're still still way ahead of me caution terrain Terrain
and terrain inhibited
quickly
you're all good you've got time happy to traffic okay
short final Runway one four full stop now Beauty
I know watch this afterwards so thanks Steven thanks Jack thanks for encouraging
me to come out and be brave today that was so good this is like flying in Europe that
was just like Landing in the Alps I didn't even know we had places like
this in Australia first time for me at this airport what an achievement I feel really good