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Australian Air Safari ??
" Unfortunately this company (GOANA Safari) did stop operating at the end of 2005 due to new security regulations in Australia that made it Damn a day late and a dollar short. Thanks for the info. Paul N1431A |
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Australian Air Safari ??
"Tri-Pacer" wrote in message . .. Has anyone any knowledge of an "Australian Air Safari" where pilots and their families rent light aircraft and go on a guided tour around the country? As I understand it, several planes are led from place to place by a local guide. I had heard about this several years ago. Supposedly, the company arranges for checkout and local certification, arranges the tour, etc. Any info would be appreciated. Google turned up lots of charter operations, but no self piloted tours. I mentioned this to my wife and she said "Let's go!!!" Paul Stawell Aviation Services is advertising 2006 outback airtours with dates of May through to September. There is a big write up (9 pages ) about one of their outback Safaris in the Nov/Dec 05 Australian flying magazine. Happy to fax you a copy if you want to email me your fax number. Or you might want to give them a call , their phone number is 61 3 5358 3822 and Graham Boatman is the owner and he has been doing these tours apparently for 20 years. ( the 61 is the australian code) . Stawell is a small town in the West of the state of Victoria. They take a fleet of their own aircraft and also allow others to bring along their own aircraft. I am not sure about the security issues, there is a big backlog of Australian pilots waiting to get their new security cards. Terry PPL downunder |
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Australian Air Safari ??
That would be optimistic. Australian GA pilots have been waiting almost a
year for the new Aviation ID cards (which are useless, because you actually need an ASIC Aviation Security Identification Card). The regulatory authority has a backlog of 23000 and some think the wait will be 12 months. If you haven't applied for one by 31 Dec 06 then landing at any airport with regular public transport (just about every airport in Australia) then you can get busted with a $2,200 fine for each infringement. If the toursists go to the back of the queue then you better have a year or so to drive around the country before contemplating flying yourself anywhere. It is bureacracy gone totally insane handled in a totally inept way that is killing an already suffering GA community. See posts on Rec.Aus.Aviation... And yes AAS has closed its doors to the best of my knowledge. There was a press release towards the end of last year announcing same citing the bureacracy/secuirty issues as the prime cause. Cheers, Kevin "Ron Natalie" wrote in message m... Eric Bartsch wrote: Unfortunately this company (GOANA Safari) did stop operating at the end of 2005 due to new security regulations in Australia that made it difficult for foreign pilots to get checked out in their planes. I had always hoped to do this someday, but looks like I missed my chance. They used to have a booth at Oshkosh with all of the information. It's not the checkout. I got checked out under the new rules (I essentially had to do a full up BFR, just added an additional day). What killed them is that to go into any airport with scheduled air service (and we're talking about nowhere airports without even a fence around them) you need a security card. The Australian bureaucracy won't even start processing cards for foreigners until you get to Australia which means you'd have to allocate a couple of extra weeks in front of the tour to push papers. |
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