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  1. Garfly
    I would definitely recommend taking up Franco's great offer but if your son is not able to travel down there, then you might just want to get him a gift-voucher from the the North Queensland Aero Club based at Mareeba airport. https://www.nqac.com.au/gift-vouchers
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    HARS = Historical Aircraft Restoration Society https://hars.org.au/
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    Bienvenue Phillippe, As you probably know it's a very long way from Wollongong to Mareeba (like Paris to Morocco ;- ). But I guess you're thinking of a flight around the Mareeba/Cairns area, rather than around Wollongong, is that right? Maybe some people on this forum from up that way could help with suggestions. Anyway, if you check out some of the great movies on this thread you will see that Far North Queensland has some spectacular scenery to fly over:
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    Anxious that my steed and/or myself might appear in a thread like this some day, I'd like to say a word for this plane and pilot (pending due process): blameless.
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    That old path is sounding less and less virtuous by the minute.
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    Actually the new WAC itself doesn't offer much guidance on the Romeo areas contained in those magenta boxes. However, a single long press on your EFB screen will reveal that R559D and R559E are active only between FL100 and FL260. So no sweat. CLICK FOR FULL REZ:
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    But since we're talking Toora we can bank on variation (in our lifetime, at least) to remain at 11 - legs eleven - degrees, East. ;- )
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    I'm not sure how Google Maps handles that but the app is not really designed for that sort of thing, is it? Even if you never want to take one of those new fangled EFB gizmos aloft, I'd strongly recommend using one of them for the job at hand. It'd make it so much simpler and better in so many ways. By sticking to "the narrow path of virtue" (to borrow Nev's phrase) even for the planning phase, I reckon it's going to be harder and less accurate. Unless you reckon virtue is its own reward. ; - )
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    Okay, that looks good. I can see that the precise location of the Falls themselves is not important in context. The road intersection is the waypoint. I suppose you could also play with what3words fixes, which, I reckon, would put the actual falls at magician.opening.aboard and the nearby intersection at uninspired.outsize.strategist and YTWN at assertions.springtime.investigated ;- )
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    I prefer to use the DMS coords because that's how my OzRwys - and Google Earth - are (usually) set up. But anyway, for me, both apps (notwithstanding the different formats) placed the coordinates quite close together but at a distance of about 1.5 km to the east along the highway, from Hickeys Falls. I used GE first, to locate the place by name (it's not on any of the charts I have in OzRwys) and then matched up features to confirm and cross check. I placed the falls themselves (just north of the associated carpark) at 312543, 1490401 Or, in our sort of lingo, approx 9nm on the 074 radial FROM YTWN. Are those the kind of results you were expecting? CLICK FOR FULL REZ.
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    Oh, for sure, I take those coordinates [S31deg26mins24secs / E148deg54mins02secs and 312630S / 1485400E ] as the same thing for our intents and purposes (global bulges notwithstanding ;- ). I only meant to draw attention to the format ERSA uses and how ambiguous it could be for pilots, on quick viewing (as opposed, to geoscientists et al, who use all the various formats regularly). I haven't kept my eye on just how ERSA denotes lat/long (we rarely need to match coordinates to maps by hand, these days) so, I could easily have made the same mistake you did. So I reckon it should be disambiguated.
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    I think the problem might be that the latter figures quoted could be minutes and seconds. OzRwys has it at S31deg26mins24secs ; E148deg54mins02secs EDIT: Yeah, it's a bit ambiguous the way ERSA writes those figures, that is: "312630S 1485400E" in a document where ambiguity can be a big problem. Mt Erebus comes to mind.
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    True! That's Recreational Boating.
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    Yeah ... ya gotta miss the virile societies of our forefathers, where women (and other out-groups) knew their place, and nary a hoon would be found (alive). Cue Tucker larf:
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    Just came across this other Juan Browne cautionary tale about a rejected take-off :
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    Severe Turbulence: Unravelling the Botany Bay Airliner Crash of 1961 Peter Hobbins Hobbins - Severe Turbulence (2022).pdf https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/105854382/11503817
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    More like "We ignored the wisdom of the RecFlying collective!"
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    Yeah, well, let's face it, we're all only here to ease the crushing loneliness of the short distance flyer. ;- )
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    Yeah, but SP would have been transporting his rotary pump in (empty) ag-aircraft so not much problem there.
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    Nobody's suggesting that this type of pump will lift from ground level so no one is likely to be disappointed on that score. I find not having to move or manhandle a 20L can once it's up there (on a board across the fuse) simplifies and de-stresses the whole operation. I used to use a jiggler but I find a small self-contained 6V transfer pump heaps easier. For a start, both hands become free to manage the outflow and the filter. Mileage may differ. The OP kicked off with "I just had another disaster, fuel all over the wing and over me. Does anyone have suggestions for filling high-wing tanks?" We've probably all been there and some among us are happy to spend a few bucks not to have to go there again. (Replacing a windscreen costs too.)
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    The thing is Mike, it's dead easy to unclip and take with you. You can also move it from aircraft to aircraft - as long as you change its ID (easily done) and the other plane has an official hex code (easily obtained).
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    And AFAIK, at this point, the SE2 is still the only portable EC device of its kind approved by CASA. https://www.uavionix.com.au/news/skyecho2-portable-adsb-inout-now-approved-in-australia/ The SkyEcho2 portable ADS-B transceiver has been accepted by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) as an approved Electronic Conspicuity (EC) Device as an enhancement to “See and Be Seen” from 16th July, 2020. SkyEcho2 is the world’s first commercially available portable ADS-B IN and OUT system. Complete with an integrated TSO certified SBAS GPS and barometric altimeter, SkyEcho2 transmits your aircraft location, altitude, and identification via 1090MHz ADS-B, enabling you to be seen by nearby aircraft equipped with an ADS-B receiver. In Australia, the integrated ADS-B IN receiver connects wirelessly to your favourite Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) application adhering to an industry-standard protocol for ADS-B traffic – including OzRunways and AvPlan EFB.
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    Yeah, it's not designed to for high lifting so I tend to just use it with the jerry (20 or 10) up on the turtle deck, resting on a board. I can manage to get 20L up there (just) but then I don't have to manhandle it in a tricky pouring situation. But the little pump is also handy on the ground transferring from 20's to 10s, for example. Less messy than pouring through funnels - so many opportunities for things to go wrong. Batteries have not been a problem, so far. The pump is only running for minutes at a time. It's also small and light enough to carry on board.
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