Juan Jimenez wrote:
I was able to find a place where you can get rides and maybe even get
checked out, but it's small and the selection of aircraft is not very wide.
It's Hoxton Park, some 35 km west of Sydney. It's actually a cool little
airport, would be quiet except the helo students in Robbie's use it for
practice, and they make an awful racket hovering up and down and up and down
the field. Even with the doors of the hangar shut, it was hard to make
myself heard for the little 1st Annual Oz BD-5 Expo we had organized.

But let's see... they have Jabiru's for rent, two-seaters in a class
equivalent to LSA's. They also have some Cessna spam cans, and you can get a
joy ride in an Extra 300 if you like. But it's all local joyride stuff,
nothing seriously available for long x-c.

They did have a couple of extremely cool British aircraft I had never seen
before, except in pictures, with cabins like helicopters and a center ducted
fan setup.

A few years ago, the Oz government sold the 3 GA airfieds in
the Sydney region to one operator, and Hoxton Park is now due to
close as an airport at the end of 08.

Bankstown is the major GA field in Sydney, but it's also been in a
decline with aircraft departing to less expensive pieces of grass.





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