CUP WEEKEND FLYAWAY- Bathurst 2017
“Wings ,wheels, mountains and caves”
This Flyaway will have it all
Saturday November 4th – Tues. 7th
Details and booking :
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Queens Birthday Weekend Fly-away Report
LFC members staged a successful and fun weekend fly-away to Dubbo on 10-12 June, with 14 people and six aeroplanes making the 3.5+ hour trip to the city in the NSW Western Plains. We spent a day exploring the best Dubbo had to offer then braved the 20-knot headwinds and slowly darkening weather for the trip home, but everyone got back applauding the weekend and the effort put in by SQNLDR Dave Marty in organising. Highlights of the trip were:
- Blasting out of LIL through blue holes in the fog
- Happy hour on night one
- Dinner at the RSL after an adventure trying to find the door
- Ordering the wine and having something completely different come
- Vicki Marty’s parking effort
- Western Plains Zoo complete with hippos, siamangs, tigers, lions, cheetahs and some very slow Galapagans
- Happy hour on night two
- Dinner at the Lion’s Pride restaurant
- Dave Marty’s spare ribs
- Visit to the observatory, complete with close-ups of the moons of Jupiter, Saturn and its rings, the moon, the Jewel Box and other stars of note
We will organise another weekend away soon. Destination: unknown.
African Wild Dogs take a break from boredom to leap around nipping and yipping at each other.
Meandering zebras crossing their grassy paddock.
Warren and Delia prepare AG5B WDJ before heading back to Coldstream.
Sylvia and Barry with Jabiru 5122 on departure day.
One of only 400 Sumatran tigers left in the world.
Russ and Julie in front of their trusty steed Pioneer 4944.
Przewalskis horses at play.
Phil gets Archer DDM ready for the trip home.
A very happy hour (OK, it was two hours). L-R: Pitch, Phil, Bob, Julie, Bill, Barry, Dave, Warren and a couch full of ladies.
Sunday night happy hour. L-R: Warren, Vicki, Debbie and Sylvia.
A very funky gibbon with an itchy foot.
Elephants loll around the display pen.
A Cheetah on alert.
See you back home! Pitch and Phil beat everyone out of Dubbo on the Monday morning.
Queen’ Birthday Flyaway- Dubbo
LILYDALE FLYING CLUB
QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY FLYAWAY – DUBBO
10th – 12th June
Organiser, Dave Marty :- dmarty@netspace.net.au
FULLY SUBSCRIBED
Mount Beauty Fly-away
To say the Mount Beauty Fly-away 11-13 March was a success would be a chronic understatement: it was nothing short of brilliant! The weather was the best we could have hoped for with little to worry about on both the trip there and back with, get this, tailwinds in both directions! No-one had any trouble getting into or out of what can be a tricky airport, and the weekend itself was loaded with good times, good food and, yes, some good wine. In all, 19 people in nine aeroplanes joined the party with club member Shane Stone hooking up with us for the Saturday and Saturday night. After arrival we made our way by coach up the twisty mountain road to Falls Creek and lunch at Huskis Cafe. Lunch was walked off on the short path to the iconic Wallace Hut, a gentle stroll among dead snow gums that took on a very ethereal quality. On the Sunday we toured around the region with stops at Yackandandah, Beechworth, Pennyweight Winery, Gapsted Winery and the top of Tawonga Gap. If you didn’t go and haven’t been, you need to put Mount Beauty on your agenda.
We’re here! Eddie celebrates being at Wallace Hut. (Sonya)
You lads have done your weight and balance, haven’t you? Tim, Graeme and Mark load up at Pennyweight. (Sonya)
Going home: Sharon helps with RCR’s tie down ropes. (Sonya)
A section of the LFC planes in the park at YMBT. (Sonya)
They won’t miss one! Mark raids the vines at Gapsted Winery. (Sonya)
Adrianna and Naveen with a new friend at Pennyweight Winery, Beechworth. (Sonya)
Wine tasting at Pennyweight Winery, Beechworth. (Sonya)
All smiles! Naveen and Adrianna at Wallace Hut. (Sonya)
Jenny emerges from Wallace Hut. (Sonya)
Resplendent in their LFC apparel, Glenda and Graham wait for the bus at the airport. (Sonya)
Dead ghost gums lining the track to Wallace Hut.
Claire and Daniel take a load off on a convenient rock.
Team AGD: Graeme Kaufman and Mark Pitcher at the Wallace Hut
Mount Beauty in all its glory. Note the airport in the upper left of the frame.
The LFC team at Sullivans Lookout on the Tawonga Gap Road.
Inside the Wallace Hut near Falls Creek.
Wallace Hut near Falls Creek.
Meeting Notes from General Meeting 12 February 2017
A good, well attended meeting happened at Lilydale on 12 February. The notes from that meeting can be downloaded here.
Lilydale Airport Christmas Air Show
Lilydale Airport’s Christmas Air Show is on at the airport on Sunday 27 November. Last year was a great day out for everyone involved, and there’s every chance this year will be just as good. Mark this in your calendar and be there! Have a look at the flyer below for details.
Echuca Cup Day Trip
After the Hobart trip was torpedoed by bad weather, LFC flew to King Island on the Saturday of Melbourne Cup Weekend, then backed it up with lunch trips to Milawa on Monday and Echuca on Tuesday. The Echuca trip gathered five planes and 12 people, who made the trip after deciding Echuca was the safest and most logical destination, given that another low was moving in over the west of the state. Below are Sonya’s pics of the day.
Pioneer 4944 with Russ and Laura on board turn to line-up on 35 ECH.
Dave, Bob, Erika, Doug, Gale and Steve ready for lunch at the Beechworth Bakery in Echuca.
Sqn Ldr Dave Marty on the wing on his chariot Bonanza BIM.
Bonanza BIM, Cardinal DZP and Pioneer 4944 parked at ECH.
The paddocks are looking relatively green in the Murray country. Taken from RCR as it descends to circuit height ECH.
RCR with Graeme Kaufman at the stick makes its way out of the Kilmore Gap.
Doug and Carmel taxi into Echuca in Pipistrel 8657.
Steve, Doug, Laura and Gale under an old Murray River gum.
Gale, Laura and Doug saunter along the old port area at Echuca.
RCR turns at Yan Yean to track for 36R final at LIL.
King Island
Our Melbourne Cup weekend fly-away to Hobart ended up being a day trip to King Island due to some hideous weather forecast that would have trapped us in Wynyard for a couple of days. The upside was that the day for crossing to King Island could not have been better! Nineteen people in eight planes had almost perfect conditions for the trip and we had a good feed and got some cheese whilst we were down there. Thanks to Dave Marty for all his work on this. It’s a pity so much of it had to be unstitched at the last minute. Anyway, enjoy Sonya’s pics from the day below.
Russ Grosvenor and David Coillins secure Pioneer 4944 at King Island.
Aireys Inlet from Archer RCR.
Pitch and Hitch about to board RCR for the flight back over Bass Strait.
Dave and Vicki Marty with their Bonanza BIM getting ready to go home.
LFC members mulling around outside the King Island cheese factory.
Cheese!
Coastal with Cape Patton in the foreground and Apollo Bay in the distance.
Cardinal DZP parked with Archers ZZW and RCR at King Island.
Barry Mock’s Jabiru 5122 and Doug and Carmel Fraser’s Pipistrel 8657 on the hard stand.
A couple of pioneers: Steve Daniel’s Pioneer 300 parked next to one of aviation’s great pioneering aeroplanes: a DC3.
Order Your LFC Polo Shirts!
LFC is now taking order for high-quality polo shirts embroidered with the LFC logo. Shirts are a Sportec Pique with knitted collar and cuffs with jacquard detail in the cuffs, three-button placket and side seam splits. Platinum colour with the LFC logo over the left breast. Both men’s and women’s styles are available. Only $35 each.
For an extra $10 each, you can also have your name or aircraft registration number on the right breast. Please indicate if you want this on the order form.
Download the attached order form, fill it in and return to Steve Hitchen hitchy@iinet.net.au soonest you can.
CASA AvSafety Seminar – Lilydale
CASA’s AvSafety Seminar is on this Thursday night at York on Lilydale. Details in the attached flyer!