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Went out to MKT yesterday for my first flight in a while, what with holidays, Christmas and renovations to the laundry. It was good to drag the drifter out and get it ready for a lazy trip out to Adelaide River. This time of the year is fantastic for flying in the morning. Zero wind and thunderstorms normally hold off until the afternoon. As usual, the time from undoing your tie downs to getting in the air takes much longer than the normal preflight time as you have to catch up with folks and yesterday was a little special.

Harvard at MKT

I heard the thundering sound of an approaching Harvard (which I recognise only because it does frequent these parts) - I grabbed the camera and got some very nice shots of Nick conducting a close up inspection of our airfield. When Nick came around again and I saw the landing gear down I wondered why Nick was going to land as he normally does a fly past and heads off South for some fun.

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I attended the monthly meeting last Friday and it was entertaining and productive with a great salad and sausage sizzzle to top it off. Thanks to Arti. We learnt that MKT will be covered in 1km of bitumen in about two weeks time and this will be paid by friends of MKT without any external funding from taxpayers to top up, prop up or support this massive infrastructure investment.

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This entry was posted on June 2, 2010 at 7:27 AM and has received 414 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

Despite some shaky events including the granting of only a formal three year extension by the Government to the existing permission to allow the Top End Flying Club to operate at MKT Airfield (which is not under threat as it is an authorised landing area in the formal and traditional definition of the term) we are still going from strength to strength.

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At our monthly meeting it was decided that the time had come to call for expressions of interest from suitably qualified folk from the aviation community who may have an interest in running a commercially viable flying school for recreational aircraft at MKT Airfield. For those who are aware, the club and the school have been one for probably as long as the club has been in existence.

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