Can you hear something?
Neither can I, I can't hear a thing.
This is the quietest airport I think I've ever been to.
Welcome to country Victoria and Horsham Airport.
Coming up on today's flight.
What actually happens when you've made a mistake filing an IFR flight plan?
Yes sorry that's my mistake, yeah gosh the plane's not that fast.
We go cloudsurfing in the Cirrus.
Ah welcome to IFR flying at it's finest.
And taking a look around Horsham Airport, 100 miles out of Melbourne in country Victoria.
Welcome to the Airservices briefing office.
I just had a missed call regarding a flight plan for Tango Delta Sierra.
Ah right yes ok, so on your second stage you have a departure out of Horsham and then your
actual first tracking point is directly overhead Moorabbin.
So I've got Moorabbin as the first waypoint but it should be Horsham instead, thank you
yes if I can change it to that please.
Great and thanks very much for your help.
Appreciate that.
Not a problem.
Alright, all done so I had the wrong waypoint coming out of Horsham but they helped me get
the right waypoint in there so now the flightplan setup is correct.
Great service from Airservices there, silly mistake from me.
Alright, off to the airport.
Melbourne Departures Tango Delta Sierra passing 2600 climbing 4000.
Tango Delta Sierra departures g'day identified climb to 6000.
Climb 6000 Tango Delta Sierra.
And we're in cloud, outside air temperature is 9 degrees so we don't need pitot heat at
the moment but what we will need are sunglasses.
Ah welcome to IFR flying at it's finest.
Happy days.
Melbourne Departures Tango Delta Sierra maintaining 6000.
Tango Delta Sierra Melbourne Departures.
And Tango Delta Sierra just to keep you clear of the departure from Melbourne maintain your
present heading.
Present heading Tango Delta Sierra.
Tango Delta Sierra position 21 miles North West of Melbourne resume own navigation direct
to BURRA.
Direct BURRA own navigation Tango Delta Sierra.
That will give us our direct track to BURRA.
And that direct track is 274 so we can put our heading on 274.
So that was a fair old deviation that he gave us there so let's head off to Horsham.
So we're coming up towards Horsham, just spoken to Air Traffic Control and they've let us
know there's no traffic between us and Horsham and we've also told them about our intentions
to fly the RNAV and so what I need to do first of all then is to activate the approach and
get us tracking direct to echo charlie which is our first waypoint on the RNAV.
Which is pretty simple so we just go to procedure, activate approach, Horsham echo charlie it
will give us a direct track of 288 and then we'll just verify that on the moving map as
well just to make sure that looks correct via echo charlie.
So now we can brief ourselves on the approach.
Tango Delta Sierra request traffic for descent 4000.
Tango Delta Sierra no reported traffic.
Tango Delta Sierra.
Horsham traffic, Tango Delta Sierra is around three miles to the east we're going to be
joining crosswind for runway 08, Horsham.
Tango Delta Sierra we're in the circuit area Horsham, cancel sarwatch.
Tango Delta Sierra Horsham sarwatch is terminated.
Horsham traffic, Tango Delta Sierra just a correction to the earlier call we're going
to be joining upwind for runway 26, Horsham.
Second stage of flaps.
Horsham traffic, Tango Delta Sierra turning final runway 26 full stop, Horsham.
Someone asked the other day why I leave this open when the aircraft's parked.
It's just to let the engine cool down whilst we're stationary, it's as simple as that.
Let's go take a look around Horsham Airport.
That's the Horsham NDB.
Probably not going to be there for much longer.