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Spectacular airstrips around Australia
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    • Apollo Bay
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Welcome

This website provides information on aircraft landing areas, focusing on the spectacular and more remote landing areas around Australia. Much of the early work is on my home state of Tasmania. Recommendations on landing areas to include on this site are welcomed. Any new information found is added to the OpenStreetMap (the open-source global mapping project). 

Hobart from the air, May 2020

 

New content

Date State
STCKY: Stockyard Flats 2021-03 Tas
VICVA: Victoria Valley 2021-03 Tas
YAPO: Apollo Bay 2021-02 Vic
YMCO: Mallacoota 2021-02 Vic
YWRT: Waratah 2021-02 Tas
NICHL: Nicholas 2021-02 Tas
CAMN: North Campbell Town 2021-02 Tas
ICENA: Icena (Musselroe) 2021-02 Tas
YCDE: Cobden 2021-01 Vic
YGMP: Grampians (Victoria Valley) 2021-01 Vic

Notice

This website is intended as a guide only. Landing area status and runway lengths may be incorrect. Check all information before departure with private owners and operators and against ERSA/NOTAMS, and overfly landing areas as required. CAAP 92-1 requires that except in an emergency, the consent of the owner/occupier is required before a landing area may be used. Certified and registered aerodromes are subject to copyright by Airservices Australia and links are provided. 

Sources

Creative Commons

Base mapping data including topography, elevation (contours) and vegetation are sourced from theLIST (Tasmania), NSW Spatial Web Services and VicMap Spatial Data. Mapping is also credit © OpenStreetMap contributors and through the Leaflet Open Source library for interactive maps (see Leaflet). 

Google Earth views: Google, CNES/Airbus Data LDEO-Columbia, NSF, NOAA, US Navy, NGA, GEBCO Landsat/Copernicus TerraMetrics.

GIS mapping for this work is provided by QGIS.org, 2020. QGIS Geographic Information System. QGIS Association. http://www.qgis.org

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 and Google Earth are used to provide a general perspective on terrain around an aircraft landing area. 

 

Google Earth View

A fly through of landing areas is being developed and will be available through the links on the landing page for each state. Please note that this functionality requires the Google Earth extension to your web browser.

Climate and sustainability

The places, landscapes and environments that we love to fly to and visit are being compromised and degraded by climate change. Some landing areas and airports will also be impacted directly through sea level rise. Aircraft performance will also be affected by increasing temperatures. A carbon price and/or emissions trading scheme, is the most efficient way to incentivise the market to reduce emissions. This would allow sectors that currently lack emissions reduction technology to benefit from sectors with a greater capacity to reduce emissions. Examples might include aviation purchasing permits from agriculture allowing this sector to increase investment in soil carbon or aviation purchasing permits that may help to support the accelerated retirement of coal-fired power stations. In the meantime, while we wait for the right policy settings, as passengers and pilots we can offset the carbon emissions on our commercial flights. Ecologi is an organisation that can help you to offset your carbon footprint. 

 

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