Sunday, February 19, 2012

where are we ?

Somewhere in the middle of nowhwere is where we are flying ! Along the Overlanders hwy. using it now as a landing and takefoff runway . It is a great landing strip and mostly deserted . Landing in Homestead , Prarie and such place were you might only have 100 people in town or less at times and only 1 store open. Morning are spent flying trying to get in good km before the wind and thermals kick in, usually about 8:30 am. If its good we can refuel and relaunch. On one of these Mark had another bad take off and ended up breaking another prop and breaking his cage. It was then decided for me to fly on and we would phone ahead and get another prop sent out and he could catch up the distance later. A local pilots in Brisbane thought he had a prop which would do, great.. got couriered out right away to Concurry.
Damn, we had just put in a great 158km the envening before and a 100km flight that morning together..and it was looking good for an afternoon flight . I pushed on and ended up putting in a 340km flight this day . We camped at a caravan park in Cloncurry , really a nice place, swimming pool and a nice town , the temp were better and no bugs !! Lets see if the prop comes in tomorrow ?

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