Killiecrankie (YKCK) → Welshpool (WHL).
Difficulty: 1/5
POI’s: 4
Summary:
As this flight consisted mostly of crossing the remaining part of Bass Strait to the Australian mainland, I left most of it to the C172’s auto pilot. Therefore it was no real challenge, except for managing my patience due to the heavy headwinds, which slowed the plane down to a crawl.
POI’s:
To put some perspective on my last post about the airfield in Killiecrankie (1): This is the aforementioned “small strip in the woods”, which is quite the challenge to land at when you can’t see it until being right on top of it. At least the take-off was smooth this time.
After a while we reached Deal Island (2), about halfway to the mainland if you take Mount Latrobe as a reference point.
About 45 minutes later we approached the coastline of Victoria (3), with Mount Hunter visible to our left and several scattered islets in front of us.
We hit the main continent at the Nooramunga Marine and Coastal Park (4) south of Welshpool. A beautiful entry point to the next step of our adventure!