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In Late April 2006, for John's 60th birthday, I booked a scenic flight for John, Warren and myself (Greg). No Cessna 172 could take our combined weight, and the Cessan 310 was unavailable, so we were luckily assigned the Diamond Star DA-40 which could normally take 4 adults. Unfortunately, we were still overweight (I blame John's 99kg for that!), so I had to stay behind and let John and Warren take the flight with Oscar from Tristar as the pilot. Most of these pictures were taken by Warren with his digital camera. The scenic flight was unfortunately cut from 60 to 40 minutes due to bad weather. After the flight several of the local social gang met for lunch at the Moorabbin Airport flight club restaurant. The DA-40 is a modern, light and powerful plane based upon a glider design, and most impressive is the "glass cockpit" with wonderfully friendly dual display screens. In the some of the pictures you can see the GPS display.

John's 60th Birthday [23 Photos]
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Greg back at the airport lunch		 800 x 600 (112 KB) Taken: May-2005
Greg, Warren and John before takeoff		 800 x 600 (102 KB) Taken: May-2005 800 x 600 (65.8 KB) Taken: May-2005 800 x 600 (98.1 KB) Taken: May-2005 800 x 600 (114 KB) Taken: May-2005
Southland shopping centre
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Landing approach in the rain		 800 x 600 (93.8 KB) Taken: May-2005 800 x 600 (108 KB) Taken: May-2005
Oskar and John (and Greg)		 800 x 600 (75.3 KB) Taken: May-2005
VH-END before takeoff		 800 x 600 (101 KB) Taken: May-2005
Heading south-east over the airport		 800 x 600 (102 KB) Taken: May-2005
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Taking off from Moorabbin Airport		 800 x 600 (104 KB) Taken: May-2005 800 x 600 (107 KB) Taken: May-2005 800 x 600 (69.5 KB) Taken: May-2005 800 x 600 (106 KB) Taken: May-2005 800 x 600 (112 KB) Taken: May-2005
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Cockpit before takeoff		 600 x 800 (70.9 KB) Taken: May-2005
Storm clouds over Melbourne		 800 x 600 (114 KB) Taken: May-2005
Looking down St Kilda Road		 800 x 533 (95.1 KB) Taken: May-2005
The Diamond DA-40		 800 x 533 (76.7 KB) Taken: May-2005
John and Greg (and Oskar)		  

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