On Sunday Adam, Steve, Laurie (Adam’s dad) and myself went for a joyflight in Laurie’s plane.

It’s a turboprop, which means that a jet engine drives a propeller at the front of the aircraft. Inside, Laurie has two flight systems that are the same as those used in F-18 figher jets! They displayed a variety of information, and run on a DOS platform. It’s funny watching them run ScanDisk everytime they load, and then launching into DOS4GW mode (you ol’ skool gamers will know what I’m talking about).

We went down to Augusta, and back to Jandakot and the round-trip took only an hour! We were crusing at 10,000 ft and travelling about 260 knots on the way down south, and that was with a 30 knot tail wind. That’s about 480km/h :) Also, the turbine was running at about 60% power, meaning that if we took it higher we would run more efficiently. Not surpisingly, the jets are from Slovakian fighter planes :)

With a resale value of just over $1.2M, this has to be the coolest toy any guy I know has.