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Australian Air Safari ??
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 |
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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? Are they the ones going out of business because of some NEW onerous security regulations? I mentioned this to my wife and she said "Let's go!!!" Marry that gal. Oh, I see you already did. Montblack |
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Australian Air Safari ??
The AOPA Pilot magazine has run articles about such tours,
you might contact the AOPA or search their AOPA PILOT magazine back issues, maybe on-line. AOPA Australia Online - Supporting Aviation Links to AOPA's current advertisiers are now on the web! More. © 2004-2005 Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of Australia ACN 004 274 588 ... www.aopa.com.au/infocentre/news.cfm - 35k - Cached - Similar pages AOPA Australia Online - Supporting Aviation If you have a link you would like to see included on the AOPA Australia Online Links Page, ... 2004-2005 Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association of Australia ... www.aopa.com.au/infocentre/index.cfm - 26k - Cached - Similar pages [ More results from www.aopa.com.au ] AOPA Online -- AOPA Pilot -- Links for March 1998 issue The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), a not-for-profit individual membership ... 39); Australian Aero Discovery tours of Australia (p. ... www.aopa.org/pilot/links/9803links.shtml - 27k - Cached - Similar pages -- James H. Macklin ATP,CFI,A&P -- The people think the Constitution protects their rights; But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome. some support http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm See http://www.fija.org/ more about your rights and duties. "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!!!" | | Cheers: | | Paul | | | |
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Australian Air Safari ??
Unfortunately this company (GOANA Safari) did stop operating at the end
of 2005 due to new security regulations in Australia that made it difficult for foreign pilots to get checked out in their planes. I had always hoped to do this someday, but looks like I missed my chance. They used to have a booth at Oshkosh with all of the information. http://www.goana.com.au/main.htm Eric 1959 Pilatus P-3 http://www.hometown.aol.com/bartscher/index.html |
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All together now, "Thank you, Osama, not"
Seems the governments around the world are very good at crafting oppressive rules. -- The people think the Constitution protects their rights; But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome. some support http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm See http://www.fija.org/ more about your rights and duties. "Eric Bartsch" wrote in message ups.com... | Unfortunately this company (GOANA Safari) did stop operating at the end | of 2005 due to new security regulations in Australia that made it | difficult for foreign pilots to get checked out in their planes. I had | always hoped to do this someday, but looks like I missed my chance. | They used to have a booth at Oshkosh with all of the information. | | http://www.goana.com.au/main.htm | | Eric | 1959 Pilatus P-3 | http://www.hometown.aol.com/bartscher/index.html | |
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All together now, "Thank you, Osama, not"
Osama has little to do with it. It is the paranoia of government. Just like the panic in the streets of DC when the errant C150 strayed into their precious airspace. Jose -- Money: what you need when you run out of brains. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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Australian Air Safari ??
Osama did provide the "cover story" to allow the government
to do what many had wanted to do all along. At least in the USA "we the people" can still get the rules changed when we get involved, but too many don't see the real problems, they're just glad the government "has done something." -- The people think the Constitution protects their rights; But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome. some support http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm See http://www.fija.org/ more about your rights and duties. "Jose" wrote in message . .. | All together now, "Thank you, Osama, not" | | Osama has little to do with it. It is the paranoia of government. Just | like the panic in the streets of DC when the errant C150 strayed into | their precious airspace. | | Jose | -- | Money: what you need when you run out of brains. | for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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Australian Air Safari ??
Eric Bartsch wrote:
Unfortunately this company (GOANA Safari) did stop operating at the end of 2005 due to new security regulations in Australia that made it difficult for foreign pilots to get checked out in their planes. I had always hoped to do this someday, but looks like I missed my chance. They used to have a booth at Oshkosh with all of the information. It's not the checkout. I got checked out under the new rules (I essentially had to do a full up BFR, just added an additional day). What killed them is that to go into any airport with scheduled air service (and we're talking about nowhere airports without even a fence around them) you need a security card. The Australian bureaucracy won't even start processing cards for foreigners until you get to Australia which means you'd have to allocate a couple of extra weeks in front of the tour to push papers. |
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Australian Air Safari ??
That would be optimistic. Australian GA pilots have been waiting almost a
year for the new Aviation ID cards (which are useless, because you actually need an ASIC Aviation Security Identification Card). The regulatory authority has a backlog of 23000 and some think the wait will be 12 months. If you haven't applied for one by 31 Dec 06 then landing at any airport with regular public transport (just about every airport in Australia) then you can get busted with a $2,200 fine for each infringement. If the toursists go to the back of the queue then you better have a year or so to drive around the country before contemplating flying yourself anywhere. It is bureacracy gone totally insane handled in a totally inept way that is killing an already suffering GA community. See posts on Rec.Aus.Aviation... And yes AAS has closed its doors to the best of my knowledge. There was a press release towards the end of last year announcing same citing the bureacracy/secuirty issues as the prime cause. Cheers, Kevin "Ron Natalie" wrote in message m... Eric Bartsch wrote: Unfortunately this company (GOANA Safari) did stop operating at the end of 2005 due to new security regulations in Australia that made it difficult for foreign pilots to get checked out in their planes. I had always hoped to do this someday, but looks like I missed my chance. They used to have a booth at Oshkosh with all of the information. It's not the checkout. I got checked out under the new rules (I essentially had to do a full up BFR, just added an additional day). What killed them is that to go into any airport with scheduled air service (and we're talking about nowhere airports without even a fence around them) you need a security card. The Australian bureaucracy won't even start processing cards for foreigners until you get to Australia which means you'd have to allocate a couple of extra weeks in front of the tour to push papers. |
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Australian Air Safari ??
" Unfortunately this company (GOANA Safari) did stop operating at the end of 2005 due to new security regulations in Australia that made it Damn a day late and a dollar short. Thanks for the info. Paul N1431A |
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