Ready to go?
Eat a good breakfast every morning
Thorough pre-flight
Performance, weight and balance
Lay out charts and documents
Weather, NOTAMs, submit flight notification
This is your last opportunity to ensure all is ready before you head into the
great unknown. Best to find any problems with the aircraft at home rather than
in a remote area.
I'm Safe
Illness
Medication
Stress
Alcohol
Fatigue
Eat
A personal, pre-flight check. Do it each morning.
Perhaps if a loved one is ill, may even need hospital while you are away, it
might be better to delay the trip. Rather that than having to rush back from the
far side of Australia.
The Hangers-on
Pax brief - again.
Do they have the right gear?
Are they ready for the unexpected?
Will they always tell you the accurate
weight of anything?
Do they know where emergency
equipment is and how to use it?
Don’t frighten your passengers. This is going to be a fun flight. But things do
go wrong, so discuss one or two possible scenarios.
If your passengers try to load you up with an inflated jumping castle, it is easy
to say no as it is obvious it wont fit. But if you are in Leonora and a passenger
has a couple of gold bars in a bag, you wont know and it will make a
difference to the weight and balance. So make sure they discuss purchases
with you.
They do need to know where emergency equipment is and how to use it. Your
life may depend on this knowledge.
Fuel!
Change tanks after first 30 minutes
- ensures feeding from both so can return
Then change tanks every 60 minutes for balance
Record of fuel planned and used
CLEAROF
Compass - Log - Engine - Altitude - Radio
Orientation - Fuel
Do all the normal things you have been taught. Do not dump these procedures
because you are out of sight of your instructor and mates.
Navigation!
Confirm what is on map is what you see on the ground
Take in broad picture - better above 6,000 feet
Keep accurate flight plan details
From that, determine wind
Gives you confidence in fixes
Normal navigation assumes you know pretty well where you are. So you look
on the map for Walgett as a fix, note what it should look like and confirm that
is what you are looking at on the ground.
Keeping accurate details certainly helps if you think you are lost, but it also
gives you confidence.
1. Sand dune orientation pretty accurate
2. Different terrain can see from air
3. Dry/salt lakes accurate except when full of water - rare.
4. Survey and seismic lines
5. Sealed roads easy to see
If you are going to the Tanami Downs ALA the top centre -
- From the east, watch for sealed road, small outcrops, building and salt lake
to south.
- From the south, look well ahead from top of salt lake (Lake Mackay), note
sand dunes between lakes and tracks running in to area with building to east.
- From the west, cross survey lines, larger outcrops with salt lakes to south,
tracks and building beyond.
- From the north, not enough information, but change of country to sand dunes
and outcrops indicates gone too far.
- From any direction, the ALA itself.
Chart. Lake Mackay WAC 3231 edition 11
1. Spot heights mere mounds - not obvious from 6,000 feet. Vary 600 to 800
feet.
2. Sealed roads ok, railways can disappear in hills.
3. Vermin fences long and straight - don’t confuse with dirt roads (south of
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