MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY Smashed windscreen, hit a bird.
On the last episode of our Australian Adventure
We explored Kangaroo Island, off the coast of South Australia
We then flew to our next destination, the small town of Meningie
Ill book and we can turn up. Worst case we've got to ride 3km's back here to camp at the Airfield.
Righteo
We didn't pre-plan our stop at Meningie
so when we arrived we had to find somewhere to stay.
Worse case, we could camp at the airfield.
The town was only 3km's from the airstrip
as it's turned out, it offered the best grassy camp site right on the lakes edge.
It was a magic spot!
When we woke up this morning, we made a spare of the moment decision to fly home.
It's Christmas tomorrow, and we decided we wanted to be with our family.
and seeing it was only about 3.5hours from where we were,
it was easy enough to jump in the plane and whip on home.
We've just left Meningie
We were going to head to Hay, where we can get some fuel, and it get's us home to be with our family on Christmas
but it's pretty turbulent up here, so we are going to divert to some little town right on the border.
It strats with 'P'
Pinanroo
Pinnaroo, oh but there is no 'r' in it.
oh year
Pinnaroo. Is it a tar strip?
no
If we flew over the tree's would it be smoother?
I don't know, we've flown over some treed area already.
yeah but im talking a serious patch of trees.
We've spoken a bit about the turbulence in these flights in the outback.
Most of it has been caused by the thermal activity from the ground.
because we have alot of cleared open areas.
We have heat, which is soaked into the ground, and warming the ground up
so as soon at it gets sun on the ground the following day, themal activity starts
and we were flying, on this particular day, up around 9500 feet
still, was probably just less then 10 degree's outside temperature
so the air hadn't cooled down either
so it was just a continual bump
so we decided we'd land at Pinnaroo,
find a shady tree to sit under
and let it cool down for a bit
Could that be it just down there?
not far away
what's the next aerodrome past it?
is there another one there?
umm, Undbool
anything major?
Mildura
Robinvale
I really think Mildura is a good option.
It's just there
Ill have a look when we are over head
ok
do you want me to have a look at any details for you? read them to you?
nah it's alright
Pinnaroo is half way between where we left and Mildura
MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY
smashed windscreen, hit a bird
ah, cannot see
Im in the hills of Mudgee
Bathurst
cannot see a think
trying to keep it airborne
station calling MAYDAY Melbourne centre, i copied the MAYDAY, i missed the call sign and location, i copied you hit a bird.
Any station Bathurst Melbourne Centre copy the MAYDAY
hey, I don't know if you can hear, I have no headset, no windscreen, smashed with a bird, trying to climb over some hills, cannot see.
Could you give me the aerodrome chart please.
PInnaroo? Yep
Aircraft transmitting MAYDAY copy that
If you can, advise your last known location, and your aircraft registration
Aircraft on 13525 i can't carrier wave only that time
REX 936 did you copy anything with that?
REX 936 only hear call, trying to get over hills
Runway direction?
and the aerodrome eleveation would be good too
elevation 250 feet
REX 468 Centre, if you could monitor 121.5 for any indication of an ELT thank you
and REX 917 how about you, did you copy anything 1215
negative REX 936
REX 917 thank you
Poor bloke
what's that?
I said poor bloke, he's coped a Bird Strike, can't see anything
Oh, he can't see, is that what the story is?
Bird strikes are relatively common occurance in flying
especially during low altitude sort of operations, take off's and landings,
but sometimes bird strikes can occur up quite high as well.
usually a bird strike is a non event, sometimes you might strike them where it doesn't cause too much damage
on the side of a nose or hit it with a wheel or something like that.
but on some occasions birds have hit the windscreen, and broken the windscreen
there have been stories where the birds have actually made there way into the cockpit and have hit the pilot or passengers
so it can be quite dangerous
one of the most famous bird strikes of course is the accident on the Hudson River
Where the geese flew into both engines, causing both engines to shut down on the airbus
and it was forced to ditch in the Hudson River
On this particular day it sounded like the bird had crashed through the window of this aircraft
and we had the MAYDAY call, and knocked the pilots headset off, he couldnt hear the controllers trying to talk to him, and he was just transmitting
in a hand held microphone
alright, we are just over head it now
are we going down
yep
I want to get out of this
yep
that's fine
did you turn him off or?
no.
We just don't have anymore radio contact
everyone will go quiet listening
can you even see a sock? oh yeah.
yep
straight up the runway is it?
yep looks like it
If we got fuel at Mildura, could we then go straight home? yeah
or is there, we go, 3 hours, 100 Litres
Mildura to Cessnock
yeah, we've got enough fuel to go direct
yep
we won't get there tonight
yeah ok, so no tonight
we wont get home tonight
cause its not going to cool down until late, after 6 o'clock
so we'll go to Mildura
and then we can miss all this yucky weather
oh, it's just turbulant. I hate just sitting there bobbing around like a cork, what's the fun of that?
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