Canberra Airport Open Day-Attending Aircraft

[Zac M]

The best place for afternoon spotting is the Multi Story Carpark in the Brindibella business park if runway 35 is in use.

Another thing to consider is that there aren't that many movements on a Saturday.

[Ken B]

I thought this might help members that are attending the Canberra Airport Open day. Some frequencies to listen out for on the day.

CANBERRA AIRPORT - Civil

Air Traffic Control
Frequency Entity Mode
124.500 Canberra Approach AM
127.450 Canberra ATIS AM
121.700 Canberra Ground SMC – ACD AM
118.700 Canberra Tower – MBZ AM
119.950 En-Route Info Svc AM
135.050 Flightwatch AM

Emergency Services
Frequency Entity Mode
119.100 AFP AM
131.600 AFP AM
131.000 Fire & Rescue AM
466.875 Fire & Rescue FM

ACD Airways Clearance Delivery
ATIS Automatic Terminal Information Svc
MBZ Mandatory Broadcast Zone
SMC Surface Movement Control

[Maikha Ly]

Hi all

Not far away from booking my tickets to go down and back for the day.

Am intending on getting down on QF787 from Sydney, and returning back to Sydney on VB, hoping to fly on one of the E-Jets. Before I go book tickets, are all VB flights out of Canberra to Sydney the Embraers or does the odd 737 appear on one of the flights? The one I'm thinking of getting back home is DJ657.

If all goes well, in one day, I would have flown aboard a 767, Q400 and an E179/190. Apart from a little PA-28 I flew in my avatar, I haven't stepped aboard a jet since going to the US in July '06!


Many thanks!

[Tim Bowrey]

Originally Posted by Maikha Ly

Before I go book tickets, are all VB flights out of Canberra to Sydney the Embraers or does the odd 737 appear on one of the flights?

I flew SYD-CBR the other day DJ630 and got a 737-700(VBH) but generally all other flights are Embraers.

QOS could be the Dash at the airshow.

[Joseph Saragozza.]

it is said that obama will be in Australia the same time frame as the open day so will his presence have any influence if the show goes ahead or not?

[Tim Bowrey]

He's here on Friday Joseph and the show isn't till Sunday, so it won't matter too much.

[Alex Lui]

Does anyone have an update on the regos of the birds that are heading for Open day?

The 767 - either OGS/OGT/OGP... Anyone know which one?
I heard the Dash 8 is QOS but can anyone confirm?

Thanks heaps. Looking forward to travelling on a 767 between Canberra and Sydney...

Alex.

[Maikha Ly]

I thought I'd put it out there, as it seems the bulk of us are going down on QF787, do any of you chaps off this forum wanna meet up at check-in at a certain time, and go down there as a group?
(Pardon if airline check-ins don't work like this, it has been a while for me!).

I'd reckon it'd be great to put a few names to faces and have a few laughs enroute, rather than sit separately on the plane reading flight safety cards :P

[Steve Jones]

The Canberra Airport website has a map showing the final line-up of aircraft for the day in the order in which they will be displayed:

http://www.canberraairport.com.au/PDF/OpenDayMap.pdf

My understanding is that all the airline aircraft will be open for walk-through, as will the Catalina (gold coin donation I think). Not sure about the others such as DC-3 etc.

Weather permitting, it is expected that the Dragonfly will do at least one aerial display at some point during the day.

[Maikha Ly]

Hi all

I have three other friends also heading down with me on QF787, so shall be a good day indeed!

Is Qantaslink still doing the Q400 joyflights for charity like previous Open Days? I haven't read anything mentioned on that, and would hate to think I've had the wrong assumption all along!