I'm flying to alice springs today it's over a thousand miles of travel it's probably
going to take me around seven hours all up to get there from Melbourne well i'm
going to share the whole experience of the trip with you here in this video
just dropped out of b range identification terminated identification terminated echoing
right over the top of the city now this is brilliant it's such a nice way to depart
from Moorabbin airport to just get right over the top of Melbourne city and then
our first waypoint is actually Melbourne international airport itself
okay yankee zulu turn left heading two eight straight left two eight zero
okay zulu you can expect direct to kepper again in about two minutes okay
your position seven miles west of Melbourne return your own navigation clear direct to
KEPLE then flight plan clear direct camper flight from fruit echoing
yeah we're just with the Melbourne departures at the moment they're the guys that handle all of
the traffic around Melbourne international airport and all the controlled airspace over the city of
Melbourne now we've probably got another five or so miles to run before we exit their controlled
airspace zone and we'll be in our controlled airspace for the entire rest of the flight that's
a good thing about Australia you get these little pockets of controlled airspace around our cities
but then 99% of the rest of the country nothing now i'm doing more of these longer trips because
as restrictions ease a little bit more here in australia i can get out and fly further
distances so this is the first flight i've done i don't know whether you watched the video i
made about flying to the tamora air show this is the first flight i've done myself since then and
that was three and a half weeks ago okay yankee zulu contact center one two five days for eight
one two five eight zulu roman center echo yankee zulu maintaining eight thousand okay yankees
early in melbourne today hey i've just got a couple of things i need to do i need to change
the fuel tanks and i want to log a couple of times faster do that enjoy the view it's beautiful today
if you've watched my channel for a little while you'll know that i did my fly the border series
where i traced the outline off victoria one part of that was flying down the beautiful murray river
which we're passing over now which means bye victoria
we're just about to fly over lake victoria which is ironic considering this in new south wales
hello
it doesn't take long in australia to get out of the built-up areas and get into
really remote parts of the country this is uh well kind of the south eastern part of
the desert that we're just entering into now i had a look at the closest nearest airport in
case we need to divert here is the airport 53 and a bit miles away in that direction into a
headwind as well there's another one which is about 20 miles 23 miles in that direction but
it's i looked it up and it's a strip that's not public and i don't know how well maintained it is
thank you yankees early with a quick question when you have a second okay go ahead just wondering are
we going to lose vhf coverage on this last leg to lee creek or are we going to be right
at this altitude okay should just be uh high enough i think to get this frequency and also
over to the next i'll change c in approximately 10 minutes copy that okay thank you thank you
singapore
into lee creek this is the flinders ranges by the way that we're flying over at the moment
beautiful look at the colors in that and echo yankee zulu leaving eight down
yankee zulu creek traffic okay turning final runway one 1-1 full stop
the guy i was talking to just there at the airport was saying
that lee creek has only got a population now of 150 people
there used to be a lot of mining rounds here but apparently a lot of that's shut down
all right put your guesses in for how much this is going to cost
all right
camera
okay hot starting is cirrus will it work first time won't it it's everybody's favorite game
lee creek traffic echo yankee zulu is taxiing free departure on runway 1-1 lee creek hey full power
power is good temperatures and pressures are all green
here coming over the ranges with the wind coming from the south
which is good for us because it gives us a tower wind when we're up a bit high but when we're low
down it's kind of going over the ranges making a little bit bumpy on this climb out now this
is looking nice actually we've got a towel with now around 21 knots ground speed almost 190 knots
across the ground now one thing i'm going to try and i am not hopeful about this to see whether
we can get vfr flight following melbourne center echo yankee zoo vfr flight following request echo
yankee zulu i've got a plan for you from league creek to alice springs is that the right one
hey firm that's the one okay okay yankee zulu identified verify level maintaining 8500 okay okay
yankees no reported live high traffic eric unh one zero two four one zero two four echoing thanks
excellent so that's gonna drop in and out i think on this leg but for the moment
whilst we have adsb coverage we may as well use it because there ain't a lot else down there at
the moment echo yankee zulu you'll be out of vhf coverage from approximately time four five
until time zero five i'll probably have to determinate your flight funny at that time
in the meantime do you expect to are you intending to maintain 8500
hey firm uh intending to maintain 8500 all the way to alice thank you and here's
something very cool i've never actually flown right over the top of lake air and um
by the looks of it up ahead it looks like there's actually some water in there this time
so okay yankee zazulu surely you'll be leaving vhf coverage identification is terminated you
can expect to be able to hear us again at time on the hour on one two zero day small seven
terminated and will monitor one two zero seven uh
it's been about an hour's yeah just over an hour's flying since i recorded the last bit
that you would have just seen um very little has happened i changed fuel tanks that was exciting
but apart from that yeah we're out of coverage from air traffic control so you would have just
heard as i heard an hour ago that we're no longer identified we've got an hour and 18 minutes as it
stands at the moment to get to alice springs are you excited to get to alice springs i am
any of you familiar with australia you might have heard of the simpson des i think it's one
of the largest air desert areas in australia but that's just out to our right hand side we're sort
of skirting along the left of it at the moment there has been a fair bit of rainfall that came
through this area about a week ago so there are some little patches of green every now and again
that you can see which have obviously just popped up with you know some of the rainfall that's come
through and a few of the riverbeds seem to have little bits of water still in them which is
obviously really good for the local wildlife and hopefully all that water is washing down into the
rivers and the dams where the farmers need them in areas that have been so hit by droughts last year
and not too far from the uh northern territory border probably got about another 25 30 minutes
until we get there the way we're getting into alice springs is deep well that's this
reporting point the vfr reporting point you can see we need to be at six thousand five
hundred feet when we get there so we're at eight and a half thousand feet at the moment
i'll just descend us down call up the tower at alice springs hopefully they'll let me
finally after a long day of flying finally starting our descent now into alice springs
been a great day a really good day but a long day ali springs tower cirrus echo yankee zulu
is a deep well reporting point 6500 inbound we have echo uh planning to come in on the
vfr route five but unfamiliar with aerodrome request instructions okay zulu alice tower today
remember outside class charlie delta space down by the clearance outside class charlie echoing
clearance available okay go ahead yankee cleared to ls5 route 5 maintain 6500 cleared at least five
vfr route five six thousand five hundred okay uh awesome thank you alice that's brilliant
now what we need to do is just ride the bumps for ten minutes until we get there it's it's really
not that bad to be honest i've been through a lot worse turbulence in the desert than this
echo yankee zero starting at right base runway one two thank you thank you
runway one two clear plan runway
and if you clocked all of those planes that were just sitting there next to the runway when we
landed that's the exact reason why i'm here in alice springs jason a very friendly subscriber
of the channel he's giving me a lift thanks jason no worries heading off to pick up a
hire car now from the terminal so i can head off to the hotel thanks for the live mate no worries
i would be lying if i said it didn't take me about 15 minutes to
make my way out of the airport one of the barriers was shut and then
there was a bit where taxis go and cars don't and i my gps on my phone isn't working if
someone asks you if you want a map take the map there is a sign there for darwin so i do hope
the next video on the channel is going to be a detailed look at that airplane storage yard
that we saw in alice springs as we came into land just now so if you like your aviation make sure
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