Air Safety

Ferry Folly

I was beside myself! For an unlikely combination of reasons, I’d been offered the rare privilege of ferrying a very original, pristine Tiger Moth from Armidale to Casino.

With not a few types in my logbooks, I accepted with easy confidence – after all, opportunities like this don’t come every day! Even so, you could hardly say I was current on type. Though I’d learnt to fly on Tigers in the dim past, apart from two or three local flips (also widely separated by years) I hadn’t flown a Tiger cross country for a quarter of a century.

Neither was I familiar with the route. I live in another state and was only a visitor to the area. But I had flown VFR from Lismore to Glen Innes some years before, so at least I had some idea of what to expect. Anyway, I reasoned, transferring a non radio aeroplane with the barest of instrumentation from an inland aerodrome to one on a railway line near the coast, all in clear weather, should hardly be a complex task.

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