Rescue mission

On Thursday afternoon I was writing up some notes from my flight exercise that morning when one of the other instructors came to me with a request: would I be willing to fly out to Chillagoe and pick up a CPL student and instructor who were stuck there with engine trouble?

As it turned out, due to the limit on the aircraft's maximum all-up weight, I was the only one who was light enough to fly out to pick both of them up. It was also a good opportunity to practise the navigation techniques used in Australia (which are a bit different to how I had been flying in NZ).

Flight from Mareeba to Chillagoe