Aviation Forum / Country Specific / Australian Group / December 2003

Esteemed forum readers
When flying to Adelaide, would Virgin and Qantas for example track to
the Mildura VOR after passing Griffith?
Joe

I'll be flying down to Canberra for a week over Chrissy visiting family, and
the plan is to do a couple of scenic flights while I'm there.... is Canberra
Tower likely to give me a clearance to fly over my parents' house in Chifley
(which is within the CTR itself)? Do I have to give ...

I've been looking into buying my first headset and have noticed the
Altronics brand. I'm fairly familiar with Altronics owing mainly to my
interest in electronics, and everything else I have purchased from them
has been fairly reliable. Although, a few days ago I was speaking to

Thursday, 4 December 2003
153/2003
AUSTRALIA TO PARTICIPATE IN US MISSILE DEFENCE PROGRAM
The Government has decided that Australia will participate in the United

Virgin 737-700/800's come with and without winglets. Is there any rhyme or
reason to this? For example, will those with winglets be used on different
(ie longer or shorter) routes?

The new Beauty from the Islands :
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/471232/M/

Anyone know much about this mob and their aircraft?
A6-GDP is the rego, an all white colour scheme, with chrome edging :-)
Very nice looking.
http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=194602 for a photo.

Having passed (90%) my PPL theory, it occurs to me that I know very little
about what transponders actually do. Since I was intending to go for an
outside controlled airspace PPL I wasnt bothered too much by this but with
the NAS I am starting to think more about them.     I dont ...

Is this the end for Qantas Domestic .
Will the big red roo disappear on the domestic scene, to be replaced by a
cheaper leaner Jetstar ??

http://www.jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=193911
Umm to avoid the shark attack. It's a photo of an aircraft.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/471547/M/
Fil330

Let the fun begineth...
ABC news is reporting the Controllers union/association are calling
for NAS to be rolled back following an incedent between a lighty,
Medical flight, and a almost ex-Virgin :) in Melb. Detalails seem to

An ADSB transceiver transmits a bundle more info than a mode C
transponder so there will be more time required for each transmission
of the data.
What density of ADSB transceivers saturates a ground station or the

I am looking for somewhere to fly my ultralight out of this friday morning
to attend the centenary fly-in at Wagga this weekend.
I usually fly from a field out near Tarago but it will make a huge
difference to my trip if I can fly out of somewhere in the Canberra/Yass

Anyone got any ideas on what some US C130 A/C callsign PANTHER 92/90 are flying around Richmond?