Peninsula Aviator Magazine Issue 3

TURBULENT SKIES Big Trouble in Little Tyabb

Issue 3

as we take on Big Brother

FLYING INTO TULLAMARINE, Club news and more!!

Quarterly Magazine of the Peninsula Aero Club

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EDITOR Matt Savage

LAYOUT & DESIGN Mach One Aeromedia

PAC COMMITTEE PRESIDENT Jack Vevers VICE PRESIDENT Ray Taylor

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TREASURER Ian Johnson SECRETARY Martin Cartlidge IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Peter Bernardi DIRECTORS Judy Pay Steve Bull Peter Cutting Brian Kohlar Julie Nathan Luke Bramston Michael Brooks Tony Manning Rolfe Summerhayes Stephen Braim HEAD OF OPERATIONS Gerard Lappin INSTRUCTORS David Bell - Nick Caudwell Barry Tate - Tony Lavery Amy Crevola - Grace Perrin Ethan Slade - Andre Rousseau David Porrett - Robbie Lovig OFFICE STAFF Lisa Waugh - Glenda Mitchell Riley Dunshea - Sue Verran Brodey Carlson SAFETY OFFICER Darren Barnfield

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Flight Ops PAGE 4 NOTAM... NOTAM... PAGE 6 Turbulent Skies PAGE 12 Tyabb Traf�c... PAGE 17

By Bugsmasher To Tullamarine PAGE 18

Aiming Higher PAGE 21 Yesteryear PAGE 22 Desktop Aviator PAGE 24

Cover - PAC instructors Dave Bell and Barry Tait formate for the camera in the Club’s Cessna U206 Super Skylane VH-PQC over Westernport Bay. Pic - Matt Savage

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From The President Welcome to the latest edition of Peninsula Aviator.

It has been quite the topsy-turvy world in recent months, with COVID restrictions being eased, and then returned with even tighter restrictions. With the slowing of this second wave, we hope that as this goes to press we will see restrictions begin to ease once again.

A win in VCAT After 14 months of preparing and fighting our case in VCAT we have won the Church Hour Existing Use Rights application despite the Shire obstinance and relentless attacks on PAC through the media.

VCAT have ordered the Shire to delete the “Church Hour” condition from our permits, which will allow us to fly on Sundays between 0930 & 1030 as we have done for decades.

The order has also provided an opportunity to pursue costs, which we intend to do.

The VCAT decision states, “In the present case the permits in place indicate the use was being lawfully carried out …”. This would seem to negate all of the Shire’s claims that we have no permits, or that we are operating unlawfully.

We hope the Shire will reconsider its attacks and think about how much all of these actions are costing ratepayers as well as the damage this is doing to their reputation.

Online Training This month we have introduced a BAK on line training course, which had sold out within the week. COVID has made us reflect on what we can do to help members continue to develop our skills and keep us occupied and up to date with training.

adapt. Our instructors are very excited to bring everyone a new and exciting way to develop our skills.

We are also working on developing some on line learning opportunities and bring CASA safety presentations and guest speakers.

AGM Our AGM is not far away and we need to ask members to think about paying it forward and joining the committee. We always need people with enthusiasm and skills to help manage the club and continue to build upon what others have done before us.

Our club is, in my mind, the best in Australia, not only for our members but our relationship with the community. We need new blood and enthusiasm to join a successful and cohesive management committee to help drive the club into the 2020s and beyond.

If you feel you have the something to bring to the club and have a sense of duty and community please nominate. If you would like to know more feel free to give me or anyone on the committee a call.

Lastly it is becoming clear this AGM will need to be conducted via Zoom owing to the COVID restrictions, which is disappointing but as you will understand is completely sensible.

We will be sending separate notification of AGM details, call for Committee nominations and, especially important this year, proxy nominations, as soon as arrangements can be completed.

Happy Flying!

President Jack

Over the next few months we are working on developing a number of courses for endorsements such as Tailwheel, Formation and Aerobatics. We are also developing a GPS course, night VFR and Flying Instructor rating programmes.

Our world has changed and we need to

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Flight Ops A recent issue with the potential for an aircraft to be flipped on its back involving a twinengine aircraft doing high power engine runs and a light single engine high wing aircraft taxing behind has led to a safety review of engine ground runs at the Peninsula Aero Club.

REGULATORY REFERENCES Starting and running of engines CAR 230, CAO 20.9 (5)

stakeholders and is implementing a procedure to mitigate the risk and minimise the exposure of a similar event occurring in the future.

• At the time of this safety alert, all ground runs at the Peninsula Aero club should be carried out on the helicopter landing pad to the south of the club rooms. This will meet the CASA CAR and CAO requirements such as within 5 m (17 ft) of any sealed building, within 8 m (25 ft) of other aircraft and within 15 m (50 ft) of any exposed public area.

A person must not start or permit an aircraft engine to be run, unless the engine is started • Pilots and maintainers should, when wind or run when the control seat is occupied by an conditions permit, place the aircraft in a approved person or by a person who may fly position so that the thrust line will not blow the aircraft. This may include a pilot qualified to back over the taxiway or runway if high fly, or maintenance personnel qualified to power is to be used. work on, that type of aircraft. In any case, the person starting or taxiing the aircraft must have • Exercise a high level of vigilance when sufficient knowledge of the aircraft’s controls conducting engine and systems to runs.

Great ensure the s i t u a t i o n a l starting or A person must not start or permit an awareness begins running does not aircraft engine to be run, unless the with great aircraft endanger any engine is started or run when the control positioning so as to person or seat is occupied by an approved person be able to see the damage the taxiway and runway or by a person who may fly the aircraft. aircraft (CAR 230 for passing traffic.

(3)).

Aircraft not to be taxied except by pilot CAR 229, CASR 64.045

• Pilots and maintainers are to actively monitor the area CTAF of 128:00. and wear a headset when possible.

It is an offence to taxi an aircraft if you are not qualified to do so. A person who is qualified to taxi an aircraft is one who is authorised under CASR Part 61 and Subpart 64.C. A person qualified to taxi an aircraft may include a holder of a pilot licence that is endorsed for that aircraft type, or a person approved by CASA to taxi the aircraft in accordance with agreed terms and conditions.

• Pilots and maintainers are to vacate the helipad on notification of any helicopter operations. Priority is to be given to Police and emergency service aircraft and consideration to any visiting helicopters as this is their designated parking area

SAFETY OUTCOME Starting and running of engines for Tyabb airfield maintenance organisations.

Safe flying!

Gerard Lappin Head of Operations

During a PAC safety subcommittee review of the recent ground running incident it was identified that a dedicated and defined area for maintenance organisations to conduct engine ground run was not clear. The safety subcommittee has discussed this issue with all

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NOTAM...NOTAM...

News Around The Airfield

Gerard Lappin appointed as new Head of Operations / Chief Pilot We are very happy to announce that Gerard Lappin has formally joined the PAC and will head up Flight Operations as our Head Of Operations and Chief Pilot.

Gerard has been acting in this role since late February of this year, when our previous Head of Operations Peter Phillips, was tragically killed in a mid-air accident near Mangalore.

This accident also took the life of Peter’s student Ido Segev, and the lives of another instructor and student in the second aircraft involved.

Gerard is a well-known figure in the Australian aviation community and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our club. His aerobatics display was one of the highlights of the recent Tyabb Airshow.

We wish to extend a warm welcome to Gerard from everyone at PAC.

Regrettably, this annual pilgrimage to Tocumwal, NSW has been forced to be cancelled. The decision was left until the last possible moment, but it was simply not feasible to run the Camp under the current COVID guidelines.

Peninsula Aero Club’s annual ‘Big Kids Camp’ is an intensive flying training camp, primarily designed as an opportunity for students to ‘fast-track’ their training and make progress in a short period of time.

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Held each year in September, PAC instructors, aircraft and students relocate to the wide runways and sunnier Spring weather of Tocumwal in NSW. The camp is an awesome opportunity to accelerate training and a great way to meet other students from the club with diverse experience.

We hope to run the Camp in the future, and will advise when we know more.

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Proud Day for Airshow Beneficiaries Continuing a long tradition of giving back to the community, PAC proudly distributed over $50,000 on Saturday May 30th, to local community and sporting groups.

Our beneficiary day is normally celebrated with a fantastic community open day, but with current restrictions this year we celebrated virtually. PAC’s club president Jack Vevers, was joined by The Honourable Greg Hunt MP, and The Honourable Gordon Rich-Phillips MLC, & two of the airshows major sponsors, who each had the honour of recognising the recipients of this years Airshow proceeds.

In his opening remarks, Jack acknowledged PAC members, sponsorship from Eastlink, IOR Petroleum, Paul Bennet Airshows & the generosity of all the aircraft owners and pilots and ground crews who donated their machines and time for free. The Club’s President also acknowledged HMAS Cerberus & Defence Australia for their outstanding support and participation.

In presenting $25,000, on behalf of PAC members, to Chasing Change, Greg Hunt MP said “their work was particularly important in the current climate of isolation and mental anguish especially among the young, who

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are understandably anxious about their future. It is an important area to talk about and Chasing Change have done a huge job to give hope, support and care when needed with their work in youth suicide prevention”.

Bryce Morland from IOR Aviation presented Tyabb CFA with $10,000 from PAC, acknowledging the important community contribution they had made during this recent catastrophic fire season.

Doug Roy Spencer from Eastlink, presented Mt Eliza Lions Club $8,000, which was in addition to the $4,500 they collected from car parking on the day.

Gordon Rich-Phillips presented to both the Tyabb Cricket and Football Clubs each $3,000 to support these important sports clubs. This was in addition to over $5,000 the Footy Club made from their fundraising at the Airshow, whilst the Australian Air League received $1,000.

PAC has now donated over $150,000 from the past 3 airshows with 50% benefiting those organisations working with people on the Peninsula dealing with health adversity.

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PAC’s Spirited New Look Turning a negative into a positive is always admirable, but not always easy to do.

During the COVID-19 shutdown we’ve made use this precious time the best way we can and have taken this opportunity to do things we may not have been able to do before. We are excited to announce that we have completed a major review of our operations and looking at how we can improve things for our members, students and our community.

Not only does it allow PAC to introduce a new visual identity, it also represents a fresh start. PAC's rebranding creates a unique opportunity for us to communicate a renewed focus and a new strategy which reflects who we are as a club and the direction we are heading.

Our mission, vision, and values govern every decision we make, including brand decisions. To kick the process off we have updated our logo with a more modern look that will retain the brand loyalty we’ve built for over almost 60 years, while refreshing our image to keep up with changing times.

This fresh, unique look belongs to us and represents our club as we continue to strive in standing out in our industry. It still looks familiar, but it’s our design and captures a little bit of an art deco feel to reflect heritage and strength. You’ll start to see changes to our identity system, website, social media profiles, and our new visual

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brand signature around the airport.

Whilst the logo is fabulous, it’s only the header to the substance of what we are about. Our aim is to project a modern, safe aero club and that PAC is the leading aero club in Australia – something of which we are incredibly proud. PAC is where aviators come to fulfill their aviation dreams, where we support diversity, and provide the opportunity to learn to fly and achieve their ambitions.

Whether you want to build an aircraft, seeking adventure, to meet and share experiences with like-minded people in a social setting or a technical one, we have it right here. We also want to make it clear we are part of the community and a force for good, where we continue and grow our support for local charities and facilitate emergency services.

We have built a new website that helps project these values and commitments, which is now fully integrated with social media i.e. Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Instagram etc.

We have also reviewed our learning opportunities to allow us to provide prerecorded training videos, Powerpoint materials and other learning resources to help students develop faster and ensure safe and quality outcomes. Over the next few months we will release a number of

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promotional campaigns to attract new members to PAC as well as inform the community about who we are and the value we bring. Additionally, we will be producing some fun stuff with new, more modern merchandise - this means some new look clothing and useful flying tools and toys.

PAC is already the biggest and the best, and we want to make PAC the GA aviation place to be. We have it all and can cater for everyone, be it a career, be it a dream

or be it an adventure. PAC can offer everyone that seeks aviation with a safe and advanced environment to achieve and enjoy more.

We thank you for your continued support and for sharing your passion with us here at the club. Our members are the heartbeat of PAC and we are so excited to move forward into the future with you with gratitude and pride. ✈

Above: The new-look website design greatly assists to bring PAC’s online presence into the 21st Century, and provides an effective link to club members, the community, and pilots of the future .

Below: Turning towards the future is vital for PAC’s ultimate survival.

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ONLINE AVIATION THEORY CLASSES PAC are excited to announce that we have developed a series of online courses offering necessary theory training for current and budding pilots.

Our first series, open to both PAC members and non-members, will focus on Basic Aeronautical Knowledge and starts on September 7.

$320 Non-PAC Members for the first 10 non-members to sign-up (Price includes automatic PAC observer member status – worth $90!!)

Click to register and purchase BAK Online

Run over 6 weeks,with two interactive zoom sessions per week, these courses are live interactive lectures with our world class instructors - with notes and practice questions provided each week.

Other courses will be coming online in the coming weeks – please click the link(s) below to register your interest in one or more of the following:

Give Your Dreams Wings

Formation • Night VFR

This is the theory you'll need to know so you can successfully pass CASA’s BAK exam before your RPL flight test. No need to study alone or waste time during lockdown.

Also available to members are one hour one-on-one online sessions with our instructors at $48 per hour.

PPL • Tailwheel • Navigation Aerobatics

BAK - The full six weeks and over 30 hours of lessons valued at $380.

Click here to book your exclusive one-on-one training.

COVID LOCKDOWN SPECIAL PRICES!!

Happy studying, and we look forward to working with many of you to support your theory training and get you exam ready.

$250 PAC Members introductory price for the first 10 members to sign-up.

Further information about PAC Online and our flight training go to pac.asn.au

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Gerard Lappin cavorting over the field during his display at the 2020 Tyabb Airshow.

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Let me relieve your fears and remove any doubt in relation to expansion or change.

There is no expansion or growth planned at the airport, full stop. It is business as usual as it has been for many years.

In in the interest of full transparency, I offer anyone, including our Councillors, and whoever is spreading fear and uncertainty, and who may wish to know more, an opportunity to make contact and ask for themselves any questions they like.

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60 years, it employs about 100 people, and we provide free of charge emergency services facilities to support Police, Air Ambulance and firefighting. " The Shire contributed $150,000 towards a new helipad and an emergency access road, which formed part of a $600,000 project which included an emergency medical and triage centre as well as a fuel facility to support emergency aircraft services. This was funded by the members as a gift to the community to make all our lives safer. The helipad has attracted more emergency

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PAC President Jack Vevers gives an insight into the struggles currently taking place between the users of Tyabb airfield, and the control-hungry local government.

Images by Matt Savage, except where noted.

helicopters, which has saved many lives on the Peninsula and both bays over the past couple of years. This helipad is twice as far away from the residents’ property than it used to be, despite claims that it is closer.

Facts about our future operations.

There are no plans to expand the airport operations to increase the number of aircraft movements. There is no physical possibility for our airport to ever become a Moorabbin. Our total annual flights represent less than 3 weeks

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of Moorabbin.

There are no plans, nor have there ever been any plans, to introduce a jet operation at the airport. Our Permits prohibit jets, it’s not legally possible to facilitate jets.

There are some restrictions on night flying which represents about 1% of our total operations. There are no plans to increase night operations. The restrictions are enforceable by law and prevent aircraft over 2041kgs from night operations.

There are no plans to increase the length or width of the runways. However, there is a plan to widen the sealed section of the grass and bitumen main North South runway to improve safety. This will not change the profile of aircraft approved to use the airport by day or night. It will not change the frequency of use, nor the size of aircraft permitted to use Tyabb Airport.

There are no plans to build a new East West runway. We already have an East West runway which is rarely used and then only when weather conditions make it a safer option than our main North South runway.

There are fewer aircraft take offs and landings today than during the 70s and 80s; our claims are supported by Victorian government statistical reports. The claims by some, including the Shire, that our movements are increasing are completely false. There is no basis to these claims. In fact our flying school records show it has decreased over the years. This is not to say it will not organically grow over time, but there are no plans to further develop the airport.

There are more emergency helicopter movements today than in recent times, but fewer private rotary wing aircraft. However, further into our past, there were more emergency helicopter movements as PAC was the birth place of the Angel of Mercy, being the world’s first civilian air ambulance.

This was so successful it was taken over by the State Government and has been replicated around the world.

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Above: Tyabb’s Westernport Airfield has been the home for a number of small but highly specialised businesses and collections of antique civil and ex-military aircraft for several decades, many of which are known around the globe. The bi-annual airshow has been run successfully for the last fifty years.

Previous Page and Right: Emergency services regularly utilise the airfield services available at Tyabb to enable greater time on-station during law enforcement and Search and Rescue missions, and also during the Summer bushfire season like the Erickson S-54E Skycrane firebomber (previous page) and Police Air Wing Airbus Helicopters AS365 Dauphin (right).

Battle with the Shire.

PAC has taken the Shire to VCAT twice this year, once to have them remove an unlawful condition they attempted to apply to a simple permit amendment to relocate a tractor shed. This amendment would have effectively given the Shire complete control over the airport to apply any restriction they felt fit through the use of an Airport Master Plan. VCAT confirmed this was unlawful and ordered the condition removed.

The second VCAT hearing had its roots about 2 years ago when the Shire planners suggested we apply to have the “Church hour” condition removed from our permits.

Their reasoning was that the condition was redundant given that the relevant church had ceased to operate as a church. Their lawyers gave us the forms to achieve this and we lodged them as directed. Shortly after we lodged the applications, we were called to the Shire offices and told that they would waive the fees if we would withdraw the applications and make new ones under Section 72. We were assured that no additional conditions would be attached to the new applications.

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recommended that additional conditions would be added and we were forced to withdraw and lodge the VCAT application. In VCAT we argue that this restriction is redundant, and there will be no change to the amenity if we continue to fly for this hour because it has been ignored for more than 45 years, with the verbal agreement of the Shire.

If it is enforced it will cause safety issues and noise issues, as aircraft will have to take-off before the “Church hour” and returning aircraft may have to be put into a holding pattern over Tyabb waiting to land. We are waiting on VCAT to rule on this and hope to hear shortly.

Now the Shire is seeking to prosecute the club and other airport users claiming that we do not have permits to operate an airfield, flying school, an aero club and various other operations and businesses. We say this is a nonsense as we have all the required permits, which have been ratified by two State Planning Ministers, two Planning Panels, and several VCAT and other tribunal hearings.

Community Support We have been overwhelmed by the local support we have received. To show its support, a community member opened a

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petition and more than 22,000 people signed.

With this huge response, it’s clear that some of these signatories were outside of the immediate area, which shows how far afield Tyabb’s airport is known, but apparently most were on the Peninsula.

If it hadn’t been for the Community, we would not have been able to hold the 2020 airshow and would not have been able to make contributions of $60,000 to local causes.

I sincerely thank everyone who got behind us.

PAC also started a parliamentary petition to reject the Shire’s request to the Minister to change our Planning Scheme, which was supported by 5470 people and at the time was the 3rd-largest Parliamentary Petition every presented to the Parliament. We are hopeful that People Power will prevail and stop this complete nonsense and bully tactics

by the Shire.

Finally PAC has no plans to make any material changes in the way of aircraft traffic. We will continue to support flight training, emergency services and being a force for good locally with our charity works and community involvement.

We need to protect our local jobs and ensure that people have a right to work without being bullied and threatened. Our operations have not changed, but people come and go, and should accept the environment they move into. The airport has global recognition, and it is an important part of the Tyabb township, and has been so for nearly 60 years. ✈

Image via Roland Jahne Above and Right: Businesses on the airfield have a long association with assisting both the local community and charities for several decades. The ‘Angel of Mercy’ helicopter was the World’s first helicopter aeromedical service, and was set up in the late 1960’s as a private, voluntary service. The bi-annual airshow was started to provide much-needed donations to operate this service. Since the first airshow in 1970, many other local organisations have benefited from the generosity of the Tyabb Airport community.

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TYABB TRAFFIC...

New residents and visitors to the Peninsula

On Thursday July 9th, Gerard Lappin successfully completed the maiden flight in Brian Gooden's Fisher Dakota Hawk VH-ZPE. Powered by a 100hp Rotax 912ULS, this Canadian home-built aircraft sits two people in a side-by-side layout, useful load of 550 pounds, and is has a range of approximately 220 naughtical miles.

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Boyhood dreams were realised for one of Tyabb’s younger aviators, courtesy of COVID-19.

Story and images by Riley Dunshea.

Main image: The view on Final Approach into Melbourne’s Tullamarine International Airport.

Note how empty the taxiways and aprons are of traffic!

Inset: Cherokee Cruiser VH-CUF (Matt Savage)

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Taxiing past one of a number of Qantas Airbus A380 super-jumbos all buttoned up for storage on the Tullamarine apron.

On a clear and sunny day in early May, I was headed down to Tyabb for a flight. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions the aero club was closed, however I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to fly some of the club aeroplanes because they had been grounded for so long without flying. Since I was young, I had always dreamed of flying into Tullamarine as PIC, so after helping some of the instructors out with some stuff, I started making up a flight plan.

After consulting the NOTAMS and reading the 8 ERSA pages (most of which were talking about weight restrictions for 747s and A380s on taxiways), I found the phone number for Melbourne Tower. I gave them a call, expecting to be rejected, however I was surprised when the controller said yes without even pausing to think! He told me to contact Melbourne Centre once airborne to let them know I was coming, and just asked for an ETA. After that I filed the flight plan and gave Cherokee CUF a pre-flight inspection and headed off.

It is normally next to impossible to obtain a clearance to operate a light aircraft in or out of Melbourne International, because of the large volume of domestic and international RPT services. However, courtesy of the lack of operations brought on by COVID-19, there were no issues for us.

Upon calling Melbourne Centre I was given a

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squawk code and told to report again at Point Ormond. Despite operations at Tyabb being almost zero, I was told by the controller to stay well away from Moorabbin because of how busy it was there. Just before reaching Point Ormond, I was told to track to Williamstown and report to Melbourne Departures. Calling Departures, I was expecting to be told to hold for a while to wait for traffic, but much to my surprise, was advised “Cleared visual approach” for a straight-in arrival on runway 34 and switched to Melbourne Tower. Soon after I was cleared to land on runway 34.

After exiting the runway, the controller asked if there was anywhere in particular that I wanted to go. Seeing all the wide body international aircraft parked right in front of me, I could not resist and asked if I could go past the international terminal. The controllers were great, giving me progressive taxi instructions and giving me a bit of a sightseeing trip.

After around 15 minutes of looking around I departed back to Tyabb. The controllers were very accommodating, I cannot thank them enough. It was definitely worth the $360 landing fee if anyone is interested!

I was also lucky enough to go into Tullamarine again a couple of weeks later with Chris Brown and Kel Mathers in Kel’s Musketeer VHMJR.

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Just after finishing a NVFR lesson with instructor Dave Bell, Chris and Kel came up to me and said “C’mon, we are going to Ballarat!” As much as I hate to turn down any opportunity to go flying, I had a uni assignment due that night. I had however heard them talking about going to Tulla earlier that day so decided to tag along anyways.

After departure, sure enough we received our Squawk code for Melbourne, and after being the subject of a laser attack by someone near Brighton, we were cleared for the visual approach onto runway 34. The white strobe lights at the end of the runway led us to onto final, and I will admit that Chris Brown made a smooth landing.

We once again had the Cook’s Tour, taxiing around the airport and had the opportunity to view the mass of parked airliners. After watching a Jetstar A320 and Singapore Airlines A350 arrive while we were there, we departed off runway 27 and headed for Ballarat.

I even made it home in time to complete my uni assignment! ✈ Final Approach on Runway 34 at night.

The Airbus A380 looks huge in the skies, but are even more massive when you are on the ground near them!

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Aiming Higher Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the re-closure of the flying school, there has not been many training milestones accomplished since our last issue.

Congratulations to the following aviators who have earned qualifications or completed significant milestones in their flying in the past few months.

FIRST SOLO

ENDORSEMENTS

Mark Daws Harley Hopkins Darcy Waugh Rod Hain Zach Bayne Tim Vines Lackie McMahon

Oliver Rennie - CSU/Retract Riley Dunshea - CSU/Retract Sam Dwyer - CSU/Retract Lisa Waugh - CSU/Tailwheel Chris Browne - Tailwheel Peter Dawson - Aerobatics Matt McPhee - Formation

PRIVATE PILOTS LICENCE (PPL)

RPL ENDORSEMENTS

Oliver Rennie

Stewart Richards - Navigation Anthony Jordan - CTA

PRIVATE IFR RATING Julian Turecek

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A look back in time at our club, the people and the airfield.of times gone by. These images are courtest of Lis Sorensen.

Wings Night, 1980. Lis is at front row, centre. Judy Pay can be seen to her left.

PAC’s Chief Flying Instructor, Reginald Ross, outside the Clubhouse during the early 1980’s.

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A conteporary newspaper clipping, with several female Tyabb aviators, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Amy Johnson’s solo flight from England to Australia in 1930.

This 1980 photo was taken at the Tyabb air show, where Borg was taking Sir Phillip Lynch for a joy flight in our Chippy (DBS). The photo is of Borg, Lis and Phillip.

Phillip Lynch was the representative for Flinders from 1966 – 1982 and would rise to become the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party.

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Desktop Aviator

COVID-19 has been wreaking havoc on all forms of aviation, and the recent release of the long-awaited Microsoft Flight Simulator, PAM decided to dust off the digital flying helmet and do some “simming”.

With a computer designed more for business than pleasure, the system requirements for FS2020 were too high at the PAM hangar. However, the latest edition (until a couple of weeks ago...)

Flight Simulator X works just fine, even on the highest graphics settings.

The first thing noticed is that while there are a ton of airfields available in Australia, Tyabb wasnt one of them! To solve this, I was able to search the wonderful World Wide Web and discovered a free airfield scenery pack created by Andrew Spong.

While it does not contain all buildings or hangars, it does do a good job to give a feel for flying from Tyabb. The instructions to install the pack are very simple and straightforward to understand.

More searches down the internet “rabbithole” made discoveries of some of Tyabb’s residents, like Judy Pay’s ex-RNZAF Harvard VH-NZH. This texture pack (or “skin”) was a freeware development by John Terrell for the A2A Simulations AT-6 Texan add-on. This add-on is an incredibly-detailed recreation, all the way down to the sound of the oleos compressing on landing and the ability to remove the stick from the rear cockpit

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(perfect for those of larger build like myself!).

There is a considerable amount of freeware (and payware) content available online to tailor your FSX experience the way you want it. Everything from the Wright Flyer to the Space Shuttle can be found online.

Check out the links below and take a break from reality for a while, and keep those stick & rudder skills refreshed from the comfort of home! ✈

Tyabb scenery pack https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/ fslib.php?searchid=79517633

A2A Simulations AT-6 https://a2asimulations.com/product/accusim-t-6-texan-fsx-2/

Harvard VH-NZH Skin https://library.avsim.net/ esearch.php?DLID=195016

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Main Pic: The view in the circuit (as seen from a Tiger Moth) of Tyabb in FSX is funcional, though not 100 percent accurate.

Insets: Judy Pay’s Harvard VH-NZH repaint of the A2A Simulations AT-6 Texan looks and sounds as good in digital form as it does in real life.

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Borg Sorensen hand-starting his vibrant DH.82A Tiger Moth VH-DFJ for a local flight.

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• RAAus Pilot Certificate • Recreational Pilot Licence • Private Pilot Licence • Commercial Pilot Licence • Instrument Rating • Multi-Engine • Aerobatics and Formation

• Gift Vouchers • Trial Introductory Flights • Aerial Photography • Fire Spotting

The friendly staff at Peninsula Aero Club are more than willing to assist you with any queries you may have with any facet of flying.

Club members also enjoy a very active social atmosphere where you can discuss your flying stories and have fun at our various functions.

Stuart Road (PO Box 207) Tyabb VIC 3913 Ph: 03 5977 4406 • pac@pac.asn.au • www.pac.asn.au