VOZ TOUR 2

99jolegg · Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 5:24 am Post subject:

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Very scenic report CT : Cool

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cheekytrolly · Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 11:39 pm Post subject: Leg 5

So far during this tour, I have tried to give you all a variated view the South East region, by changing the weather and time of day for each leg. Today, when I loaded up the VOZ TOUR 2 for the final time, I knew there was only one more “colour of the great south land” to show you, it being “dawn” or early morning.

Back at the parking bay at Albury (YMAY) I started up the engines at 4:30am, just as the sun was rising in the east, tinting the sky a lovely pink color (Screenshot 1) rather than the oranges we saw yesterday evening.

My first hop was to a town to the north with a very interesting name, Wagga Wagga (YSWG) which if you didn’t know already means 'the place of many crows' in Aborigine! I taxied to runway 25 with ATC’s permission and took off, banking to the right over the beautiful township (Screenshot 2) as I switched my heading to 013 degrees for the 59 mile trip. When I reached an altitude of 3000 feet, I pulled the throttle out a little to cruise at 125kias, as there where not much mountains around to observe, just flatter plains (Screenshot 3) now that I was flying away from the mountains. The sunlight created very different moods depending on which way I changed my view, with one side being very sunny and warm, and the other being shady and cold (Screenshot 4)

The airport soon came into sight, and I told the Unicom I would be making a touch and go landing on runway 5 as I began my descent over the foothills of the distant mountain ranges (Screenshot 5) I rolled along the runway for a while and then pulled up climbing away and changing my heading to 087 degrees for the next town on the plan, Tumut (YTMU) As I climbed up to 3000 feet again, I looked all around but could not see the township of Wagga Wagga, as it was obviously situated quite a way from the airport, so all I saw was a restricted fly zone on my GPS.

It took me just 15 minutes to arrive at Tummet, a town known for being exactly the same distance from both Sydney and Melbourne, and once considered as a possible site for the national capital although nearby Canberra was chosen. This airport had no ATC system, so again it was up to me to decide what runway end to land on, and I picked 35. I banked over the town centre (Screenshot 6) then smoothly touched down right on the centerline, before ascending back into the air for my final hop this tour.

As you all know, my last stop today was Canberra International (YSCB), the city which is the nation of Australia’s capital, thanks to an argument between both Sydney and Melbourne wanting to have the title, so Canberra was chosen instead. The destination was only 47 miles away from Tummet at a heading of 082, but I had to climb up to 5000 feet to clear the Victorian Alps that had come back into my path. (Screenshot 7) I crossed the border into ACT (Australian Capital Territory) and tuned in YSCB tower, who cleared me to land on runway 35, although I did not fly the airport pattern as I was supposed to. Instead, I continued my path right across the centre of town (Screenshot 8) to view the city in all its new landclass splendor. Last time I had visited this city on my previous tour, I did not stay for very long and only went to the airport, but since VOZ 1.1 has been released, a great deal of work has been put into making the area is realistic as possible by a few scenery designers actually living in the city.

After crossing all the parliament buildings in the CBD, I banked right over the southern suburbs, and then turned to the right, leaving the territory and going back into New South Wales for a minute as I lined up my approach for runway 35. Soon afterwards, I re-crossed the state border and preformed a full stop landing on the long tarmac runway, then taxied over to park next to a Learjet to finally switch off my engines at 5:35am sim-time.

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Thank you for joining me this tour,
I hope you enjoyed the final report!
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