Jurien - A different perspective
Submitted by sambo24 on Mon, 2013-04-22 20:46
I know a lot of guys here frequent the Jurien area quite a bit - so here it is from a different perspective.
My dad is an Airline Pilot and I am currently learning to fly - it worked out nicely that we had access to a Cessna 172 which is based at Jurien Bay airstrip.
We stayed over on saturday night at the pub and took an early morning sunday flight - south over the pinnacles and back north over water.
Unfortunately the weather wasn't great - Overcast at about 3000. Didn't stop us though..
Beautiful Coastline even under cloud cover!
The photos show The coast looking north and south, Cervantes Township looking east, a rather low level turn over the pinnacles, and turning onto finals for Jurien Bay Airstrip runway 20.
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meglodon
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good new look at jurien
Now that's a new look at Jurien, next time you go for a flight what about making it over Ocean Reef so that newbies (like me) to the area can get a good appreciation of the reefs out from there.
Auslobster
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Would that be runway 20?
Or the reciprocal of that (200)? Just looks like your approach is on a SSW heading...
Just guessing...I'm not a pilot, just years of Microsoft Flight Sim under my belt! Nice pics...did you get any of the reef system off Jurien? Even on a low swell day it would still be quite impressive from the air...
mr_meks
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Isnt it runway 20, (heading
Isnt it runway 20, (heading 200 degrees). then runway 02 (heading 20 degrees). Also from my old flightsim days.
Auslobster
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Your dead right, mate!
I forgot that they take the last digit (zero) off the end!