Hi All

Once again it is time to let you all know what we have been up to.
On the 29Th of October I started a little trek to Ceduna which is in South Australia and nearly 1000 nautical miles away. The first leg was from Home to Coolgardie where I was met by Rod and Tania Higgins and their family Rod was my copilot for the rest of the trip the reason for this was to go and pick up Rods Hornet 19-4251 after her heart transplant from Rotec to Rotax .

Due to some unusual weather conditions we were grounded untill the 1st of November. we departed Coolgardie at 6 am heading for Balladonia after some recalculations we diverted to Norseman . This airfield is situated on a lake about 4 km from town. Rod and I walked to town for fuel and back again thankfully a kind local gave us a lift back to the airfield.

From Norseman it was on to Balladonia a quick refuel for us and the aeroplane .

Then from Balladonia to Cocklebiddy where we stayed for the night note the only available tiedowns, and on this leg we also found HELL.

This is the end of day one.

Hi All
Yes I know it has been a while since my last post. The Hornet has now done 80 hours and in that time we have been to a number of fly ins and little trips. Above are some pictures of the SAAA fly in held at Northam in May.




On the 30th of June we had a fly in at Walgy. All though we only had three other aircraft there about 60 people turned up for the nocturnal activities and a good time was had by all including my wife who had her first flight in a Trike and as you can see thoroughly enjoyed every second of it. Thanks Gordon .




On the 18th of August Dick, Graeme, Alan and Myself flew to Wongan Hills for lunch then to Wyalcathem for coffee and then home we all had a great time .



I think the smiles say it all until next time
Safe Skies
Safe Flying

Hi All
I have been travelling around again. I went Katanning to look at a Pederick Rake. Very smooth ride their and back. I have also been to Narrogin and Northam. Below is some video of the trip to Narrogin. I had a copilot and full fuel and we are taking off uphill with a 2 knot headwind. We went to Narrogin to pick up Alan's Skyfox. On the trip down and back we encountered the best flying conditions. This time of the year is generally the nicest in West Aus.

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A couple of unexpected visitors arrived on the home strip the tug pilot was Frank Howard and the glider pilot was Dave Griffiths. I did offer to tow him up with the Hornet (Grin).

Here I am on a trip to Koorda to go and buy some sheep. The distance from home to Koorda is 96nm this trip took us 2.6 hours as we ran into a lot stronger headwind than forecast 35knts we had to refuel at Wyalkatchem as none of the strips at Wylie were usable with a 30knt northerly wind we landed in the paddock to the east of runway 27. We purchased 20 litres of avgas and then headed home arriving back safe and sound. The Hornet surprised me with its capabilities to handle winds like this she did it easily.

The photo's above were taken at Northam airfield out side Graeme Kings hangar

Graeme is currently building a Savannah and the other aircraft is a Victa and a thruster .When we all left Northam we headed to White Gum Farm at Needling Hills where there is a shed full of toys.


From here some of us went back to Walgy Farm for a BBQ lunch and some more flying a great day was had by all especially Graeme who flew around with me for the day. The hours are definitely getting clocked up fairly quickly and haven't I had a good time.

Cheers for now