Norfolk was always a PITA as it’s on a 200 foot plateau and gets Advection Fog often so you couldn’t scud run…From memory in the 80s there was no ILS there…Only a VOR approach…No GPS in those days either…Only tracking on 3KW NDBs which were terrible in the summer with Thunderstorms……
30 mins reserve doesn't seem a lot for a remote island landing .... I'd have my swimming lessons up to date !!!
JM you don’t want to swim off shore in that place…They have been dragging dead cows a mile off shore for a 100 years so they don’t contaminate the ground water..It’s got a huge population of Tiger Sharks with no manners whatsoever….
I hate tiger sharks, they bump you before they eat you .... they want to know how hard they need to bite ..... had one chew on the prop of an outboard I was fishing off of on the GC . Evil bastards
I knew very well the last two chief engineers of that company, both race car guys ..fantastic group of people ....a family .
Been to Norfolk twice..now I read this maybe not again the airline was struggling at the time (10years ago) ...they know each passengers Mind you there were only a handful..so not too hard
Yeah I’m with you on that one JM…Pretty sobering when you see them rip those cows to shreds and saw through the bones…
Can't be too hard FFS. https://7news.com.au/travel/air-aviation/passenger-with-no-idea-how-to-fly-the-airplane-makes-near-perfect-landing-during-pilot-emergency-c-6756455
Alan Pickering the last head of engeering there ,perhaps the best guy in Australia to tune any period style motor
I wish… A freebie for architecture frontier to look at getting a business case for their new hospital
Two days in a row to Melbourne to pick up a baby and bring back to Adelaide. And, amazingly, two days in a row of good weather! What’s going on?!
