Alexander Metzger Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 To explore more of all those beautifully crafted airports along the west coast, I decided to bring the Cheyenne from French Polynesia to Tamworth. Don't know if that is possible, but at least it is a liverie from Oceania. So here is my trip report from Tamworth (YSTW) to Port Macquareie (YPMQ). The aircraft is still fully secured and serviced by external power while we do our flight preparations. Engine 1 just startung up while engine 2 is already running. The tower personell is watching us as we announce"Ready to taxi" Our four passengers had a last beer at that airport pub, but I guess you get that brand all along the coast.Let's see upon arrival. We have alittle wind from the north, so we have to taxi all the way to rwy 12L. The arriving Caravan has to wait while we continue our taxiroute. Finally we have arrived at the holding point and do the final checks. A last look to the left and confirm that no plane on final and then we go. Time to get the gear in while we pass the airport terminal. Engines set to climb and time to do our left turn for our 90° track towards PMQ NDB. We have choosen to do a gently climb and can enjoy the beautiful countryside. The Cheyenne with its mighty turboprop is not the best sightseeing plane ;-) Luckily our passengers have a better view. Seven minutes into the flight we are close to 10'000 feet and just need to check the engines settings. Further east the weather got worse and we had to enter a weather font just over the coastline. Pretty dense in front of us while we cruise at 17'000 feet, again having set the engines now to cruise settings. About 10 minutes before PMQ we started our descent to reach about 5000 feet for our approach along the shore. We have programmed the GPS with the RNAV data for rwy 21. Well we can see at least a bit from the countryside, so it should be fine for a good IFR approach. Heading to PMG we are now close to the destination airfield and prepare to make a left turn for a right hand downwind via PMQNI. The GPS is indication that we are almost there. Pretty much gray outside. With a target altitude of 3300 ft at PMQNI we just drop out of the clouds. Our waypoint for the 180° turn to the right is just ahead of us - the sandy beach. Her we go with HDG set for the runway 21. Out of the turn we now intercept the final track. The airport is just left of the wiper arm. Gently we turn versus the runway and it look like this is a nice place to live! Just dropping flaps to full to reduce to blue line. What a nice view on final. Love it! Cleared to land! We continue on the runway to exit Alpha to arrive directly at the terminal. After landing checks and all space for us. All clear on the right side. Another u-turn and we are there. Pretty cool that big palm tree. Wonder what it is called? At our parking position. An every one left with his luggage. Hope you enjoyed the journey! Off for a beer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Emms Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Enjoyed looking at these shots cheers Iain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Scharnowski Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Nice flight report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Eccleston Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 A great set of shots there on what looked like a very pleasant flight. You may want to do it all again soon as Port Macquarie is getting a little makeover for the SP3 certification release. I managed to grab a quick shot while up there the other day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenicoll Posted October 9, 2009 Share Posted October 9, 2009 Excellent pics...Didn't you help to develop the Cheyenne?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VH-WCE Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Great pics enjoyed the flight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Mason Posted October 10, 2009 Share Posted October 10, 2009 Metzger, I did an aussie paint for this a while back, its essentially the same paint you have there with as rego change but it can be found on www.aussiex.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Metzger Posted October 10, 2009 Author Share Posted October 10, 2009 Thanks for the tip on the Aussie repaint. Decided to get the BHP - nice excecutive look, simmilar to the Swiss XLII. Happy to see that others enjoy our Cheyenne in Australia. I did not find an authentic livery on the web, so I took that Plynesian for that flight, but gonna chenge now, but I guess even one of our US reg would do for a while if one wants to fly down under ;-) Looking forward to an upgrade of YPMQ, though it is great already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Metzger Posted October 11, 2009 Author Share Posted October 11, 2009 The nice thing with the Cheyenne is that you can fly above the weather. This one taken on the way to YHBA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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