Hello again flying friends and welcome back to Moorabbin airport it looks a bit
hazy right now but that's gonna clear there's basically no wind there's going
to be no clouds over pretty much all the Victoria and it's such a waste not to go
flying today. Now this is a flight I've wanted to do for quite a while we're
going to go from Moorabbin Airport south around Port Phillip Bay over the heads
over to a place called Torquay and then we're gonna turn down the coast fly down
to a point called Cape Otway and then fly up the coast towards
Warrnambool. And as we're flying along there we're going to hopefully get some
great pictures out the side of the great ocean road here in Australia. So the
pre-flight it's all done we've got full tanks plenty of fuel on board to get
ourselves to Warrnambool and back again let's go sightseeing I've just
jumped on board we taxying down to our departure runway three five left
here at Moorabbin but yeah 24 degrees already so hence taking the jumper off
Tango Delta Sierra Moorabbin Tower cleared for take off. Cleared for take off Tango Delta Sierra.
I'm just trying to monitor the Torquasy CTAF at the moment it's quite busy
there's another Cessna that we're just overtaking at the moment I think he's
tracking in a similar direction I'm just gonna make an announcement to Torquay
just so they know what we're doing.
Torquay and Barwon Heads traffic Tango
Delta Sierra a Cirrus 2500 we're approximately seven miles to the east of
Torquay overflying then tracking South to Cape Otway Torquay.
And that just tells them where we are what height we're at and what we're
planning to do once we get overhead Torquay and it also tells because I know
the other guy out there is on the same frequency as us it tells him even though
he's going to Barwon Heads which is about... Barwon Heads traffic Texan 4522 one to
zero mile to the east. Different plane. 2500 feet tracking overhead for the West Barwon Heads traffic.
So we're gonna make our way down the coast now from Torquay to Cape Otway
which is gonna take us 24 minutes to get down there
so I'll log our time once we get to Torquay we're supposed to be there in about
two minutes time now.
And at that point that's when we're going to descend
down to 1,000 feet and hopefully get a good view of the Twelve Apostles.
Any of you guys that saw my video on recently I release on what is turbulence
I'll link to it up here one of the forms of turbulence I was talking about was
mechanical turbulence or mountain wave turbulence from the wind's coming over
the mountains if you get caught in that wind sometimes you can hit a bit of
turbulence. Well there's hardly any wind today but
there is some there's now it's just gone up to about 14 knots and it is coming
from our right. And if you look out that right window you can see those hills and
as the winds coming over those hills and just like I say is just kind of making a
waveform on the downwind side. We're in that wave form and every now and again
you hit a little bit of turbulence so if you haven't seen that video and you're
interested in learning a little bit more about turbulence check that one out.
The beautiful thing about this Cirrus I mean I you guys know I'm in love with this
aircraft but the beautiful thing about this is I've got the autopilot set to
maintain 1000 feet which is where we're at and it means I can focus on looking
outside the aircraft making radio calls and even though I'm monitoring my
altitude I'm not obsessed with it like you know it's not it's one less thing
that I have to particularly worried about Port Campbell and Peterborough
traffic Tango Delta Sierra is tracking westbound at 1,000 feet
abeam Port Reginald. Port Campbell Traffic. I can see the 12 apostles ahead guys.
What an awesome side I have seen the Twelve Apostles from ground level but
I've never seen them from up in the air certainly never seen them once I've been
the pilot flying around them.
Peterborough traffic Tango Delta Sierra is overflying passing 1,200 climbing
1,500 tracking Northwest to Warrnambool. Peterborough.
Warrnambool Traffic, Tango Delta Sierra on short final runway 31, full stop. Warrnambool.
Warrnambool Traffic Tango Delta Sierra clear of all runways, Warrnambool.
Here we are, Warrnambool. We made it was actually a
really easy flight to be honest I hope you enjoyed the scenery coming down here
particularly enjoyed looking at the 12 Apostles. I only counted 11 I think they
sometimes fall over and stuff. But anyway it was a pretty beautiful flight nothing
but ocean and Antarctica to your left and nothing but awesome Australia
to your right hand side I really enjoyed that.
But I really need a coffee so let's go check out Warrnambool. I'll see if I can
get a cab into town let's go take a look around.
So just had the cab dropped me off by the Pavillion cafe it's called and I
thought I'd just take a bit of a look around try and find a nice... just climbing
over the rocks here try and find a nice point to launch the drone off this this
may this may not be relevant to you unless you're Australian or you've got
kids. But this island here this island was where they filmed the
movie Oddball which was a really good movie actually I really enjoyed it it's
great Australian film very cute dogs penguins great Australian actors what
more could you want anyway this is not a film review channel take a look at this guys.
It was discovered by Europeans in the think it was the mid-1800s. Most places in
Australia were discovered by the Europe well discovered white man inhabited this
land from the 1850s the Europeans did and it grew quite a lot in the mid-1800s
as well because of the gold rush. Sorry I think I just swallowed a fly. Warrnambool
has lots of flies. So I've just bee learning a little bit more whilst I've been here
about this island itself and that movie Oddball I was talking about before. It's
actually based on a true story that's based on a trial that they did here at
Warrnambool to use dogs basically to scare off predators like foxes mainly to
protect the fairy penguin habitats for all the Penguins that are nesting here.
So they did a trial in I think it was 2006 they did a trial and I used two
dogs to see if the dogs would actually fend off the foxes and protect that the
Penguins and the two dogs one was called Missy and the other one was called
Oddball and that's what that movie that Australian movie with Shane Jacobson
called Oddball that's what that was based on. So if you've never seen the movie
definitely watch it because hey it's a really good movie but be now we know
it's based on a true story it's actually a really cool idea using
dogs to protect penguins. All right now away from the rocks let's go and
get a coffee.
Piping hot scone, cream, jam, coffee.
Full now. Those scones are really good but it does lead me to the eternal question
with scones jam first cream first? I know it's got nothing to do with
aviation but tell me your thoughts in the comments below because I enjoy
this discussion with members of my family very much
we often have different opinions. Alright that's it for me in Warrnambool, I'm gonna
do the flight back in a separate video because I'm filing IFR back from Warrnambool
Moorabbin so I'm gonna share with you some of the techniques flying
back even though it's a short flight it's only about 55 minutes but we'll do
it IFR instead of VFR so you can get an idea of some of the techniques that I use
flying IFR. But thank you for watching I hope you enjoyed that tour of Warrnambool
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