Simple Trans Australian Desert Flight

[Aharon Dayan]

Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting a nice simple trans Australia desert flight from YBAS Alice Springs Airport located 7 nautical miles south of Alice Springs in Northern Territory in Australia to YAYE Ayers Rock Airport located near Yulara about 20 minutes drive from Uluru (Ayers Rock).

Fully boarded with passengers and ready for push back



Starting engines after finished with push back



Nice wing view of very early Aussie morning!



Nice tail



Entering into runway 30 for more taxi and backtrack



Dig sunrise



Backtracking on beginning of runway 30



Sorry cannot resist early Aussie sunrise



Airborne and climbing to 14,000 ft for short hop flight with background view of Australian highway route number 87 also known as Stuart Highway



Leaving town landscape and its night street lights



Passing waters of Roe Creek



Cruising at 14,000 ft past Owen Spring Reserve desert



Dig nice sunrise



Look at nice Aussie desert landscape



Cruising at 14,000 displaying superb metallic shine on bottom of the plane



Cruising past clouds



Sun is up



It is hard to identify too many rivers in middle of huge Aussie desert that do not have waypoints but I think it is Finke river!



Don't you love authentic metallic shine?



Never knew that Aussie desert has more more more rivers while this plane passes Palmer river!



Descending!



Descending through clouds can be pure fun!





Approaching Lake Amadeus



Passing waters of Lake Amadeus



At 5,000 ft with background view of mountains that Google maps failed to identify for me



Making left turn while deploying landing gear on way to runway 13



On final runway approach with background view of mountains that Google maps did not identify for me



Seconds before touchdown



TOUCHDOWN!!!





Engaging reverse thrusters



Slowing down on runway 13



Exiting from runway 13 into taxiway E with background view of VERY FAMOUS rock



Arrived at gate



Thank you for viewing!!  Stay tuned for next exciting flight!!

Regards.

Aharon