Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Margaret River


After Rottnesst island, i went to Margaret River a few days later (solo flight)...also, another exciting sortie because of good scenery. It was a fun and easy flight because of the wonderful technology called 'GPS'.Eventhough we are not supposed to use it because our college find it too expensive to keep it updated. But still it is there and most of us are tempted to use it. So, heck the visual tracking, and follow the GPS:) I brought apple as snack, and consumed it enroute when i find it safe and ok to take my focus off for a while. The weather starting to get bad while approaching Margaret River, a band of low cloud was sighted staring at me up ahead base at abt 2600'. Realising the conseqence of flying into cloud and lose reference to ground and water features, i quickly decended onto 2400' and avoided the cloud. It was like a canopy covering me from above when i fly beneath the huge band of cloud, barely avoided them. But after a while, i was able to feel the sunray once again as i fly past underneath the cloud. Due to time constraint, i did not take a closer look at the light house at Augusta. But i will definitely do that when i go to Albany next time:) The whole journey took me abt 3 hours including the time back to Jandakot. Overall, it was fun and relaxing.

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