Pet-els touring

[pet-els]

Hi Everyone,
What a day, Took off in the mail plane at 0900 from Mount Isa. #1. Gregory Downs Station, #2 Lawn Hill Station, #3 Old Herbert Vale Station, #4 Bowthorn Station, #5 Hells Gate Roadhouse [lunch stop], #6 Burketown [refuelling], #7 Augustus Downs Station, #8 Wondoola Station, #9 Stradbroke Glencore Station, #10 Iffley Station [let down two passengers from Bega NSW to visit son working there], #11 Back to Mount Isa at 1630. a lot of country, and dry as a bone, only water was at Lawn Hill and Burketown. Off tomorrow to west and south into NT.

PeterH

[Dot]

Any idea of the total distance Peter?

[Shirley]

Can anyone do the flight, is it a tourist trip??? sounds interesting.

[pet-els]

Yes anyone can do the trip $330.
Bring own lunch and drinks. [water supplied] You can buy sandwiches at Hells gate and instant coffee.

I'll try to work out the distance and let you all know.

PeterH

[BruceS]

Single prop or 2?
Seems a lot of the old twin prop planes are now being replaced with single engine ones.
Flying Dr & Ambulance etc

PS: I bet Keith would love to be up there doing it!!!

[T1 Terry]

Single prop or 2?
Seems a lot of the old twin prop planes are now being replaced with single engine ones.
Flying Dr & Ambulance etc

PS: I bet Keith would love to be up there doing it!!!

But in his own plane i wonder if you could arrange a jump on/jump off with this flight... well jump might not be a god choice of words here, but over night or stay for a while at each place and catch another flight on to te next stop, that would be a very interesting tour.

[Shirley]

Expensive day for 2 people but would be a great flight, covering all that country.

[pet-els]

Well its Friday and I did another mail run out of Mount Isa.

Left Mount Isa at 0850 and returned at 1300. #1 Barkly Downs Station, #2 Austral Downs Station NT, #3 Lake Nash Indigenous Town NT, #4 Lake Nash Station NT [7k away], #5 Headingly Station Qld, #6 Manners Creek Station NT [1k across border], #7 Tobermory Station NT, #8 Mount Isa.

#3 was the only one with a fully tarred runway, also has an AFL team that drives to Mount Isa every Saturday to play.

Distance covered today 350 NM = 1945 Km's
Yesterday covered 650 NM = 3611 Km's.

Cost on Thursday was $330.00
Cost Today Free.
Westwing Avation Mount Isa. [no connection] every Thurs and Fri.
I recomend it.

[Dot]

Peter you will need a holiday now after all that travelling.

[BruceS]

Peter I reckon you km's may be right but I query the NM's?

1 nautical mile = 1.85200 kilometres

I reckon you looked at nautical Leagues perhaps?
Looks like you're building up the frequent flyer points?? !!