Australian Air Safari ??

Tri-Pacer wrote:
Has anyone any knowledge of an "Australian Air Safari" where pilots and
their families rent light aircraft and go on a guided tour around the
country?

As I understand it, several planes are led from place to place by a local
guide.

I had heard about this several years ago. Supposedly, the company arranges
for checkout and local certification, arranges the tour, etc.

Any info would be appreciated. Google turned up lots of charter operations,
but no self piloted tours.

I mentioned this to my wife and she said "Let's go!!!"

Cheers:

Paul



Sadly, they are out of business. We went on one of the tours last
summer and it was the best time we've ever had. LOTS of flying, lots of
fun, great folks. Too bad they are gone.

Margy

Tri-Pacer wrote:
Has anyone any knowledge of an "Australian Air Safari" where pilots and
their families rent light aircraft and go on a guided tour around the
country?

Goana Air Safaris was doing this for years. I did it last July.
Unfortunately, the recent security rules make it near impossible
to bring in foreign pilots to fly in Australia and that drove the
company out of business.

"Tri-Pacer" wrote in message
. ..
Has anyone any knowledge of an "Australian Air Safari" where pilots and
their families rent light aircraft and go on a guided tour around the
country?

As I understand it, several planes are led from place to place by a local
guide.

I had heard about this several years ago. Supposedly, the company arranges
for checkout and local certification, arranges the tour, etc.

Any info would be appreciated. Google turned up lots of charter
operations,
but no self piloted tours.

I mentioned this to my wife and she said "Let's go!!!"

Paul

Stawell Aviation Services is advertising 2006 outback airtours with dates of
May through to September. There is a big write up (9 pages ) about one of
their outback Safaris in the Nov/Dec 05 Australian flying magazine. Happy
to fax you a copy if you want to email me your fax number. Or you might
want to give them a call , their phone number is
61 3 5358 3822 and Graham Boatman is the owner and he has been doing these
tours apparently for 20 years. ( the 61 is the australian code) .
Stawell is a small town in the West of the state of Victoria. They take a
fleet of their own aircraft and also allow others to bring along their own
aircraft. I am not sure about the security issues, there is a big backlog
of Australian pilots waiting to get their new security cards.
Terry
PPL downunder