Father & son fly a Bushcat Ultralight 2086kms from QLD to TAS via 3 awesome Aviation Museums.

Tasmanian pilots fly a newly purchased Skyreach Bushcat ultralight aircraft from Caboolture, QLD to the most southern state of Australia, Tasmania.
Crossing the outback, visiting towns and stopping at 3 aviation museums before crossing the famous Bass Strait via Flinders Island.
6 days, 20.1hrs of flying and lots of toilet stops...
Follow us on our adventure in this 340kg (BEW) aeroplane!

[@tezzvids1]

Absolutely, thoroughly enjoyed the video journey. I'm an ex QLDer ( sunshine coast ) living in Devonport. Love it here in Tasmania. Keep these vids coming.

[@pierrejoubert681]

"Australia to Tasmania". I love that bit. I never tell friends and family all over the world that I live in Australia, I always say Tasmania, and leave it to them to figure out. Most of them don't even know that it is one of the Ozzie states, and many think that it is a fictitious place anyway. Greetings from Meander.

[@AlanMydland-fq2vs]

who did it first, a guy in a tiger moth by navigation of the sun. a englishman i believe

[@blonboy]

Thoroughly enjoyed tagging along for your journey! As a father myself, Im quite envious of the opportunity to do somethign so amazing with your son. Well done!

[@thrusteroz]

It was awesome and looking forward to more adventures with both my kids in the bushcat soon!

[@NigelWoolleyaviation]

Great stuff Mark and Carlos! Well done dealing with everything on your journey and with plenty of editing of your hours of footage too.👍👍

[@thrusteroz]

Thanks Nigel - was a lot of videos to sort - ive learnt to take shorter clips in future and somehow time/date stamp them! Hope to take you for a fly soon :)

[@douglaskbrown1154]

Beautiful, laid back presentation. Thanks guys. Nice plane! Sweet music.

[@michaelsladek5697]

Loved watching your flying adventure with your son. He will remember that for the rest of his life. There is so much adventure to be had with light aviation in Australia!

[@thrusteroz]

I agree - RAA has really made flying an actual affordable hobby now.

[@DirtySanchez943]

Loved 😍 the kit kat celebration 🍾

[@KTWardlaw]

Great job Gents! From Arizona, USA!😎👍🏼

[@SKYHILLMIKE]

Good work mate thanks for sharing, epic adventure with your son. Good excuse buying a plane interstate so you get to do a flying trip.

[@thrusteroz]

Worth every cent! We only get one life so best go make the most of it - thanks for the kind words!

[@DirtySanchez943]

The video 📹 quality is amazing 👏

[@antpartridge8257]

Thanks for sharing the adventure! Great video. Your son is an excellent co-pilot!

[@thrusteroz]

Thanks - He did great and made a great co-pilot!

[@stemwoods]

A major congratulations to you guys. Thank you for sharing. I know how long it takes for Dreams to come true. Again, congratulations 🤙

[@kersplatot5070]

What a great trip, one you will always remember 😀👍👍

[@thrusteroz]

Thanks dad :)

[@orvjudd1383]

Thanks for sharing your flight home!

[@billybud9557]

Fun vid.........first time I've ever seen a Bushrat...........loved it. Thanks

[@orvjudd1383]

It’s a Bush cat not a Bush rat.

[@johnz6028]

Your video is my dream, fly to anywhere with my daughter. I try to pass my RPL in the coming days. Thanks for your share so awesome video. I fly at Tyabb, looks so nice a place.

[@bushcattom]

Thanks for bringing us along.

[@stingsportflyersusa2561]

Long vid but Congrats to you and your son for such a memorable trip

[@TheLincolnshireFlyer]

Great adventure with your Son. Done a fair bit of flying with my son in the U.K 👍😊

[@thrusteroz]

Flying with family is the best! Safe landings from OZ

[@brentkennett4097]

Love it guys... great trip. cant wait to give it a go 🙌

[@brushitoff503]

Just found this, thank you, that was enjoyable.

[@JohnJones-s5y]

Just a quick note, the old Dehaviland Beaver is a great plane for getting large loads in and out of hard to reach places and they could easily stay in the air for many hours so the engineers installed a Venturi on the bottom of the fuselage hooked up to a tube with a small funnel at the other end and they called it a “Pilot Relief Tube” so the pilot would not have to land as often just to get relief!

[@thrusteroz]

:) Im an ex Beaver Captain! I miss them alot - but never had to pee while flying but handy to know. Wonder if i a start a gofund me if i can raise enough to start a Beaver channel :) Safe landings...

[@richardwylie07]

Wow what a great adventure. I'd love to do that with my son.

[@DirtySanchez943]

Great flight boys 👦 just be careful over Bass straits that's where poor Fred Valentich disappeared.

[@davidsullivan8236]

I like the dad and son vibes

[@robdotcom71]

Epic little ferry flight back home....

[@tag491a]

Nice one, well done.

[@warshrike666]

I noticed Paul Strike in the video mate, Karen is my instructor i fly Bronzie. Great video is exactly what i want to do once i get my licence. Thanks for posting, when i see them next ii will ask after you. I havn't flown for over 4 weeks now as i just got back from 3 weeks in Europe. I am so looking forward to flying again. :)

[@markbutcher4874]

Paul and Karen were great help and lovely to fly with :) enjoy your future adventures

[@warshrike666]

@@markbutcher4874 Thanks mate and you too, i would love to do a trip with my son's like you guys did. I bet you had a great time. Paul and Karen are just great and she is a awesome instructor. :)

[@pbr1968]

Wow, you guys started your amazing journey from right beside the flight school I fly with - Caboolture Recreational Aviation. In fact, you can see the Savage Cub (8455) that I fly in the backgound at 1:56!

[@TheRealChetManley]

Love the video but please no background music next time. What a great adventure and cool airplane!

[@jonathonheidenreichffrt3986]

Brilliant. Well done!

[@thrusteroz]

Thankyou!

[@chris-adams-tas]

Great footage & edits Mark, Carlos. Wise decision to return early to fix sensor IMHO.

[@thrusteroz]

Was a strange fault but always best to be safe - was just the 12v aux that caused the issue - nothing to serious!

[@ralfmatters448]

Excellent job.

[@wimm1392]

Thanks very much.

[@Bubbyisagoodboy]

Great video mate

[@TonyHarrisonPhotography]

What were the fuel costs for that flight - and what a great adventure, thanks for documenting and sharing. Did a flight from Kununurra to Bankstown in an RV10, and that was an epic three day adventure. Really get to know the aircraft and your own comfort levels!

[@markbutcher4874]

Hi Tony - RV10 would be a bit quicker! Overall about 15hrs at just under 20l/hour - using mogas at around $2.45 a liter - so around $735! Cheap

[@DirtySanchez943]

Life is a bumpy ride...

[@petergrundy8081]

Enjoyed that

[@Blxz]

Nice flight. Private airstrip? I've been looking at the possibility if putting my own in somewhere in northern central Tassie.

[@thrusteroz]

Thats my own strip that we cleared and put in - has been a steep learning curve and will continue to improve it. Nothing better then having your own strip to fly from! Let us know if you put a strip in and we will come visit!

[@Blxz]

@@thrusteroz what's involved in putting in a strip from a council or legal perspective? Much planning permission or more of a 'ask your neighbours if they mind' kind of deal?

[@wallywally8282]

That sure was brave!😂

[@mattfields2033]

Great video. Background music is a little too loud to hear talking clearly

[@thrusteroz]

Thanks - we are still learning how to make videos! And honestly didnt expect this many views - we will sort the audio better next time!

[@mattfields2033]

@@thrusteroz Congrats to you on the views. I’ll be watching them all. I subbed.

[@yamezzcuross4353]

What does a Bushcat cost in Australia?

[@knome739]

gees the music is a bit strong,hey i want to hear you guys

[@alexandermenzies9954]

Yep, it tends to diminish takeoffs and landings in particular. Otherwise a great video.

[@mustardseedsociety]

What was your average TAS and fuel burn ??

[@markbutcher4874]

We planned at 75kts - and was pretty close to that overall. Fuel burn on some legs was around 13-14l an hour -and a bit more on the shorter legs or higher climbs :)

[@mustardseedsociety]

@@markbutcher4874 Thanks for the feedback !! That's about 86 MPH. {my mind loves to think in MPH !!} I appreciate your feedback because even though I think the Bush Cat is a great aircraft, I think I'm going with the Pipistrel Alpha Trainer. I've heard lots of reports of the Alpha trainer always getting right at 120 MPH in cruise which would be 34 MPH quicker and I think the 2 classic control sticks of the Alpha Trainer suits me better and it uses a 80 HP Rotax verses the 100 HP Rotax on the Cat. I recently heard on a video Daniella Knoll quoted an out the door Bush Cat price of 113K and that is pretty close to the quoted Alpha Trainer price. I'm really disappointed the Bush Cat price is over a 100K - if the Cat was say 65 or 70K, then the Cat wins. But when the Cat is about the same as the Alpha Trainer, then the Alpha Trainer wins. I mean don't get me wrong, if for somereason the Alpha Trainer sky rockets and the Cat goes down some, then the Cat will win out. But about 2 years ago I heard the Cat going for 85K out the door. The other thing I just found out is the Cat has a 105 MPH Vne where as the AlphaTrainer is 155 MPH Vne. I like to see larger separations of normal IAS verses Vne than smaller ones. Bush Cat Tom from Wisconsin told me that the Vne was moved back from 125 Mph when they redid the tail. But best wishes to you and your Bush Cat !!

[@serverlan763]

so what was the cause of the high oil temp?

[@thrusteroz]

Was never high - just the gauges misread when we turned on the AUX (Cig lighter) plugs - Im guessing the voltage drain of running phones/ipad caused the gauges to misread. When we turned off the AUX gauges read perfect - so we havent used the cig lighter since but at least we know when we do - the gauges wont be accurate.

[@serverlan763]

@@thrusteroz I fly a Bushcat in Darwin, Use the cigarette plug to charge my phone, we never had issues with the other gauges. The One I fly though only has a small LCD glass system that covers most of the gages including oil temp. It hardly has any analogue gauges and no DI, Id prefer a bunch of analog gages like a Cessna. That's what i'm used to.

[@sheerluckholmes5468]

Nice vid, but geez the racket in the background.

[@thrusteroz]

We will do better with the audio next time - would you prefer no music? Its very quiet with none :) All feedback welcomed

[@sheerluckholmes5468]

@@thrusteroz I don't think that I wouldn't like any music but try and keep the music relevant to the activity and keep to a genre rather than spinning out of control by going from rock to country to opera. Nearly everyone on KZbin these days has music and unfortunately they all think it makes their video better when often it does the exact opposite as it can be very annoying. Keep at it, you can only get better and before uploading do some critical listening and ask yourself if that what you would watch on someone else's video. All the best going forward.

[@marcoantonio-df4mr]

Travel free just tell us the weather

[@davidjames5460]

Shame, couldn't watch any longer due to music. Why do folk spoil which otherwise have been a great production. Lets hear all the relevant minus the tunes. 😢

[@thrusteroz]

Sorry - we try to make it a bit less boring - with no music and noise cancelling headsets there is no background audio sadly. Appreciate the feedback :)

[@davidjames5460]

No probs mate, just my pet gripe, enjoy your flying and precious time spent with your lad. All the best David

[@ODowney1]

Couldn’t take the crap bang bang music after 20 seconds.Too many potentially good videos fail because of this noise.

[@bradclarke2770]

Turn off the fn music!

[@Videostufftas]

Great video but for the loud music very distracting from the good video ambient aircraft audio would have been fantastic 😊