New day, new leg, new destination.... new continent! Finally I reached the third continend on my trip around the world. After Europe and Asia I'm thankful to Australia that it is going to host me and my wonderful DC-10 for some days, probably few weeks. First touch on the ground after leaving Asia in Timor Cakung (WPEC) was Darwin International (YPDN).
And as if by a miracle all the navaids are back! After so many landings w/o ILS or in some cases any Navaids (and in some heavy cases w/o light during night flight!) it is like coming home. Totally relaxed APP did almost everything and led Swissair DC-10 smoothly on the ground.
Furthermore it also seems that time of the "boring" night flights without any visibility to the nice sceneries are gone now. Even though it was not complete daylight, one could see where the sun will rise and with every minute into the day more and more details were coming out (see also my last post).
So again - I'm happy to be in terra australis and on the ground of the first host airport in Darwin.
Last but not least: I assume you know after which famous person the city was named - yes it's Charles Darwin, the father of evolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin). But did you know that he originally wanted to become a doctor (after his father), but as he couldn't stand the sight of blood he first became a pastor and then started to study naturalism? Interesting, isn't it? (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/educators/lessons/lesson2/act1.html)
Ya minyah*
*Good bye in Wiradjuri
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