(YMMN) Millmerran, Queensland, Australia
Latitude: 27°51.8'S
Longitude:151°16.5'E
Elevation: 1300 ft
Runway: 14/31, 1231m
Tarmac sealed 10m wide.
(YCCA) Chinchilla, Queensland, Australia
Latitude: 26°46.5'S
Longitude:150°37.0'E
Elevation: 1028 ft
Runway: 14/32, 1066m
Tarmac sealed.
YRED - YBAF (Archerfield) - YMMN (Millmerran) - YCCA (Chinchilla) - YRED
as part of the CPL curriculum I have to do 40 PIC (Pilot In-Charge) cross country hours. So to ease into this we planned a one day trip out to Millmerran where my uncle and his fiancee have a wonderful property. My first X-Country since getting my license and my first X-country in the Arrow, PHEW!! After lunch and arriving back at the strip, I ran through pre-flight and showed my uncle around the plane. After ringing the President of the Chinchilla aero club to make sure he would still be OK to meet us there for a re-fuel we headed off to Chinchilla. Then straight back to Redciffe. We had around 4 hours in the air and it was a great day. Read more about the flight in my CPL diary. That was just a warm up for the next cross country we have planned so stay tuned.
Final planning before departing to Millmerran
Phil has been flying for over 50 years and is a well known member of Redcliffe Aeroclub. As a hobby, Phil looks after the planes for Redcliffe Aeroclub and he had the Arrow sparkling.
Shane pre-flights IPV ready to go
IPV is out of the hangar and we are ready to go
A view accross to Brisbane as we head to Archerfield to re-fuel
On base at Archerfield
On short final Runway 28L at Archerfield
On arrival at Archerfield we found ourselves next to VH-SPP, the newest addition to Redcliffe's fleet
And who should be the instructor in SPP but Rob, Redcliffe's CFI. Rob came over to to chat while we refuelled
On final runway 13 at Millmerran
We had a two hour lay over at Millmerran and had a visit and a wonderful lunch with Shane's uncle and his fiancee.
Downwind for runway 14 at Chinchilla where we had a scheduled stop to refuel
Chinchilla Aeroclub
Air-Tractor AT-301 at Chinchilla. Its a small world, one of the Redcliffe Aeroclub members used to work with this plane
And home again ... Short Final runway 07 Redcliffe