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Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland,
is a sub tropical city of around 1 million people situated on the mid east
coast of Australia. With a climate of mild, dry and sunny winters - and
hot, humid summers, the area offers generally good conditions for sport
and general flying for most of the year. The main exception being the
sometimes severe sub-tropical thunderstorms that occasionally develop in
the region during mid summer, and the rare tropical cyclone that brushes
the coast every few years or so. With winter temperatures rarely dropping
below 8 degs C (46 degs F) at night and 20 degs C (68 degs F) during the
day, flying is a year round pleasure.
The city lies on either side of the
Brisbane river and is protected from the vagaries of the south Pacific
ocean by Moreton Bay and it's extensive complement of varied
islands. The region offers a range of scenic delights, from rainforest
covered mountains to the south and west, wide and extensive surf-pounded
beaches to the east and beautiful pineapple and pine plantation areas to
the north.
Within 100 kilometres are
Australia's premier holiday areas of the Gold and Sunshine coasts to the
south east and north east respectively.
The club aircraft is located at
Brisbane's light aircraft airport at Archerfield (YBAF), one of
Australia's designated General Aviation Air Ports (GAAPs). The airfield is
controlled by CASA during tower hours (see ERSA [Brisbane- Archerfield])
and adjoins the south western edge of the Brisbane International airport
(YBBN) control zone. Outside of tower
hours the field reverts to MTAF status.
With extensive OCTA training
areas to the south and east and easy OCTA access to the north via a lane
of entry west of the Brisbane zone, Archerfield based pilots enjoy
relative freedom of movement around the area. There is a range of charter,
training and engineering organisations based at the field and, with it's
location in the south-western suburbs, Archerfield is quickly and easily
accessible by road from most parts of
Brisbane. |
