Canberra tower visit?

[Romeo Juliet Whiskey]

Heading down to Canberra this weekend. What are my chances on visiting the control tower?

 

 

[rhysmcc]

Are you a pilot visiting on holiday or do you have an operational reason (i.e. Famil visit cause you fly in a lot)? You could try give the tower a call (number should be in ERSA) and see how you go, but may have left it a tad late.

 

 

[Romeo Juliet Whiskey]

I'm just a student pilot keen to learn and thought a visit to the tower would be an interesting thing to do. I vaguely recall another post saying that Canberra tower was happy to take visitors.

 

 

[rhysmcc]

Security levels are high so it's harder to get the green light from the powers that be. Give them a call and see how you go. Normally in the past I would like to be told from a visitor it was for some operational reasons (training famil) rather then just in town and thought it would be nice to have a look.

 

 

[68volksy]

Sorry for the late reply and probably no use to you now...

 

Canberra tower is usually very happy to take pilots through - just give them a call and someone should be able to show you how it all works. The flying school takes all its pilots through on days when the weather is not so clement. The tower also runs info sessions regularly and almost always someone comes along to any aviation functions being held. Anyway just a plug for them really as they're a great bunch and keep things friendly.

 

 

[Romeo Juliet Whiskey]

Sorry for the late reply and probably no use to you now...Canberra tower is usually very happy to take pilots through - just give them a call and someone should be able to show you how it all works. The flying school takes all its pilots through on days when the weather is not so clement. The tower also runs info sessions regularly and almost always someone comes along to any aviation functions being held. Anyway just a plug for them really as they're a great bunch and keep things friendly.

Good to know. I'll give them a call next time I'm down.