Post by Deleted on May 4, 2019 21:48:33 GMT -5
For airline pilots in Australia the nature of the country basically means if you fly heavy or big equipment you end up just doing the major capital cities. Regional Operators had a bit more variety with inland ports but the size of the place means intrastate operators did not go to many places, it is even less these days as country and regional services have cutback and withdrawn as like everywhere else folk leave the country for the city. Anyhow the drivers on mainline operators, Ansett TAA and now Qantas and Virgin, found the routes so repetitve they nicknamed the run from Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane the monorail. You went up you came back day in day out.
I have just spent the day doing this in the Vickers Viscount. The weather was ordinary with low cloud and lost of layers but some moments were just great, like cruising along the cloud tops between Canberra and Sydney. Anyhow all Cal Classic period.
Leaving Adelaide:
On the TAA side at Essendon:
On the climb out of Canberra:
I have just spent the day doing this in the Vickers Viscount. The weather was ordinary with low cloud and lost of layers but some moments were just great, like cruising along the cloud tops between Canberra and Sydney. Anyhow all Cal Classic period.
Leaving Adelaide:
On the TAA side at Essendon:
On the climb out of Canberra:
