At Sydney, ready to start the checks.
Taxying out I have to use the yellow arrows...
...That tower looks interesting...I wonder if anyone has slid down the handrail!
Starting the take-off roll.
Airborne and gear coming up.
On course for Alice.
The outskirts of Sydney stretch way out.
In the climb to 8000 feet.
Reached the edge of Sydney now and open country is in sight.
Cruising now but...
...the country is still green.
There is the co-pilot...You can't see him when you are inside. I wonder if they might change that!
There is a gibbous Moon up there ahead!
Oops...Just popped into cloud!
There is the desert coming into view ahead.
Whoa! That's a shock when you get over it...Didn't realise it was quite so red!
Still quite a bit...
--of cloud...
...about!
Some hours later and there is Alice showing ahead on the GPS.
We are being vectored now towards an ILS that I did not know about.
We will be vectored past the airfield as the wind is behind us and we will be landing on RW 12.
Now I can see why they climbed us to 5500 feet!
I'm being turned now onto a Base leg to the ILS.
I'm established now on the ILS for RW 12 and can see the airport ahead.
Here is my view from inside and I am maintaining 85 kts.
There seems a sharp line between desert and green!
On short final approach...
...and here we are parked and unloaded...This time I stopped short of the pumps and my remaining fuel is 187.82 galls, so I've used 616.18 galls,
which equates to 1.77 nms/gall. The distance was 1090 nms. Next stop is Darwin.
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