Philip Island

Our first real flight-plan is to fly out and land on the beach. Plan sounds allright but alas, the landing strip is too short and we back out. So we decide to fly to Philip Island, just outside the coast of Melbourne Nice flight and we already learn to navigate the Ozzie way - helped by our GPS as back-up of course. We've now got all the local aeronautical maps and the route is easy to follow. Surely that will change on our longer flights because of the dreaded 'featureless landscape'; lots of nothing really. Again it's a bit windy and also from the wrong side: crosswind on the runway. The runway is gravel as well which means it's easy to slide off. And of course at the end there's a cliff... How exciting. It takes 3 attempts to land but we're fine. The local crew appreciates it.

Perhaps a bit too exciting but a really good scenery flying over the Island and it's cliffs.