How many Australian airports have you flown in/out of?
How many Australian airports have you flown in/out of?.
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How many Australian airports have you flown in/out of?
While by no means the greatest domestic traveller I was thinking of how many Australian airports I have flown in or out of. I only included domestic flights not charters or private planes and came up with:
19 viz:
Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Launceston, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth, Alice Springs, Kununurra, Darwin, Cairns, Townsville, Maroochdore, Brisbane, Coolangatta, Moree, Narrabri, Tamworth, Albury I think (may have forgotten some). Not many really but my OS list is pretty good! Won't try to list all those!
I was talking to a rep who serviced rural Australia and I think he must have flown to just about every airport - including those obscure mine airports out of Townsville.
How many have others done? How many CAN be done?
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You beat me by a ways. Mine include: Sydney, Bankstown, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Darwin, Cairns, Sunshine Coast, Canberra, Wagga, Coffs, Lismore, Ballina, Coonable, Gold Coast. Also flown out of Rose Bay in Sydney on a seaplane... despite being a patch of water, Rose Bay has it's own three letter airport code.
Ahhh, I was referring to places where I got off the plane (so to speak, I didn't get OFF the plane at Narromine, I did get to climb across the wing of the Caribou whilst it was being refueled though - great view from the top of the fuselage)!
If you want to add transits, I can add another few.....
With mine though, most of the NSW destinations came about when Air NSW offered "Mystery Flights" - out and back on the same plane, for $25. Hey, it filled an empty seat, gave thm $25 they would not have otherwise got, and got me to somewhere I hadn't been before.
I was flying RAAF Airways (the friendly way) from RAAF Pearce (WA) enroute to RAAF Richmond (NSW) back in the late 1970s, when I fell asleep about an hour out of Pearce (was that actually possible in an old Herc. ???..... sitting sideways on a seat made from orange cargo net, wearing earplugs!)
When I woke to the graceful thud / bounce / thud / bounce / thud / vibrate / roar of a Herc. landing, I found myself not at Richmond..... but a place called Learmonth somewhere just out of Port Headland (as I recall).
It wasn't a civvi airport, more of a semi secret military site. No detention centre in those days. I don't remember all the details, but I recall the place was run by the 'yanks'.
Our Herc. was detoured to pick up a few extra passengers at the last minute. However, this exercise required an overnight stay ! No runway lights, I think was the reason. I only had three (3) days off (going home to Sydney). So, it cut short my 'holiday'.
By the way.... the inflight catering on a Herc. ???
A silver foil tray, with a boiled egg; a tossed salad (well tossed - so well tossed, that it was mostly tossed out !), and a few slices of cold meat (we used to call it 'disobedient guard dog') and a few slices of bread .... oh, and of course, an apple / orange. Drinks?.... one choice of cordial, from a picnic type foam eskie thing.
It used to take about eight hours across Australia in a Hercules. Not the most comfortable trip.... and definately no FF points !
Oh, what about 'crash' landings ????
I was in a RAAF Iroquis (sorry if misspelt) chopper, when the fan stopped turning..... (another story)
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Hmmm... my criteria was that it not be a charter (or military by inference) - I think it had to have a flight number - whether it be Plummet Airways or what. Still it's all very interesting - I thought there'd be some flying legends out there (and I wasn't disappointed).
I guess we can allow where you landed and left the plane but not necessarily the airport - as it's about airports.
I've been to a heap of farm 'airports' in light planes but we won't count them!!
Ansett used to have a Qld country town milk run - anyone remember the route? It took in about 7 stops (maybe more) in a circuit from BNE.
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