Albany Flight (Pt 1)

After passing Phase 2 (Navigation Phase), we're now given longer and more interesting navigations. One of the more interesting flights is down south (yes! further south than Perth!) to a place called Albany. Its part of the requirement in our programme to complete this flight. I'm quite excited about this flight because it will be one of the very few flights where we get to land outside of Jandakot, refill and then get back to home base.

As with any navigation flights, preparation is done before the flight. For this particular long flight, our normal visual navigation chart (VNC) is insufficient. We'd need another map which covers all the way to South Ocean since Albany town faces that particular ocean. Lines are drawn to indicate the flight path on ground, distances and bearing measured. All this are normally done the night before.

However, the next day when the flight was suppose to take off at 10am, the forecast for Albany wasn't very good with low cloud base and the flight had to be canceled. Part 2 of this flight when the flight is completed and there's photos of Southern Ocean to show...