Simple Trans Australian Desert Flight

[aharon]

Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting a nice simple trans Australia desert flight from YBAS Alice Springs Airport located 7 nautical miles south of Alice Springs in Northern Territory in Australia to YAYE Ayers Rock Airport located near Yulara about 20 minutes drive from Uluru (Ayers Rock).

Fully boarded with passengers and ready for push back



Starting engines after finished with push back



Nice wing view of very early Aussie morning!



Nice tail



Entering into runway 30 for more taxi and backtrack



Dig sunrise



Backtracking on beginning of runway 30



Sorry cannot resist early Aussie sunrise



Airborne and climbing to 14,000 ft for short hop flight with background view of Australian highway route number 87 also known as Stuart Highway



Leaving town landscape and its night street lights



Passing waters of Roe Creek



Cruising at 14,000 ft past Owen Spring Reserve desert



Dig nice sunrise



Look at nice Aussie desert landscape



Cruising at 14,000 displaying superb metallic shine on bottom of the plane



Cruising past clouds



Sun is up



It is hard to identify too many rivers in middle of huge Aussie desert that do not have waypoints but I think it is Finke river!



Don't you love authentic metallic shine?



Never knew that Aussie desert has more more more rivers while this plane passes Palmer river!



Descending!



Descending through clouds can be pure fun!





Approaching Lake Amadeus



Passing waters of Lake Amadeus



At 5,000 ft with background view of mountains that Google maps failed to identify for me



Making left turn while deploying landing gear on way to runway 13



On final runway approach with background view of mountains that Google maps did not identify for me



Seconds before touchdown



TOUCHDOWN!!!





Engaging reverse thrusters



Slowing down on runway 13



Exiting from runway 13 into taxiway E with background view of VERY FAMOUS rock



Arrived at gate



Thank you for viewing!! Stay tuned for next exciting flight!!

Regards.

Aharon

[Dan]

Looks very nice, absolutely brilliant as always!

[aharon]

Kludde,

Thanks for your kind words.

Regards,

Aharon

[Deleted]

Aahron, nice set of shots. Brings back memories, long time since I flew that for real.

The mountains are called the Olgas. They are separate to Ayres Rock or Uluru which is a solitary monolithic mountain-rock. They are actually nearly about 4000 ft high. 

As for the rivers yes there are lots out there but unlike FSX or Flight Sim they are all bone dry all year round and might have water in them once a year, for a week or two, and then it will be brown muddy water not a lovely shade of blue. They are quite easy to identify from the air as river courses, just no water and a lot of the lakes in that area are actually salt water lakes, that is water dries out leaves big salt deposits. Now and then they fill with water but quickly evaporate.

Here is a picture of the real Lake Amadeus:




Thanks for the shots and brings back fond memories of 42 degree days with melting tarmacs and flies and turbine fuel dribbling down your arm after a fuel drain. He he. 

[aharon]

Mikeh,

That is AMAZING and thank you for your kind words. It is AMAZING to hear that I created the screenshot report on same flight that you flew in real life.

And thank you for solving mystery of identification of the mountains near the airport of arrival.

Also, thank you for AMAZING explanations on the lake and desert as well as rivers of Australia.

Regards,

Aharon

[Deleted]

aahron - your a bad influence - got me thinking about the DC9. I have had the aircraft in my hangar for several years but not ever flown it for various reasons, but it is from the 1960s and lasted until the 1980s here in OZ. Well to be honest I got the CoolSky version which is exceptionally complex even for a sim model, let us say completely authentic, systems etc etc. Anyhow gave it go out of Alice Springs. Then decided I needed to spend a lot of time in this bird to get on top of it. So back to flight school and the 9.

By the way the DC-9 was universally liked, almost loved by Australian crews who regarded it as a pocket rocket even if it had the nickname the Douglas Diesel, but a diesel it was not. Because of the short legs the saying was, if your sitting there doing nothing, then you have missed something. A different era.

Here is VH-TJN outbound from Alice, it is my paint for the Coolsky version but that is being refined as well (another one of those complex spec, bump map etc textures paint jobs).

Thanks.

[Bjoern]

Jun 24, 2019 2:30:19 GMT -5 @mikeh said:

aahron - your a bad influence - got me thinking about the DC9. I have had the aircraft in my hangar for several years but not ever flown it for various reasons, but it is from the 1960s and lasted until the 1980s here in OZ. Well to be honest I got the CoolSky version which is exceptionally complex even for a sim model, let us say completely authentic, systems etc etc. Anyhow gave it go out of Alice Springs. Then decided I needed to spend a lot of time in this bird to get on top of it. So back to flight school and the 9.

I found the -9 quite simple to operate. Just watch those bleeds and hydraulic pumps on startup.

[aharon]

Mikeh,

Ha ha ha ha sorry if I am bad influence to you Glad to see that you re-created the DC-9 flight out of Alice Springs and nice repaint that you did!

Regards,

Aharon