ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE TOURIST FACILITY
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A must-see center in Alice Springs, with small planes to treat families isolated in the bush.
A must-see place in Alice Springs, about 80,000 people visit the center every year. It is the base of the medical corps, equipped with small planes to go and treat isolated families in the bush. If you are bitten by a snake in the middle of the desert without a hospital nearby, the Flying Doctors are the ones to call. They intervene within an average of 2 hours. The Alice Springs base dates from 1939. The Royal Flying Doctor Service Museum is located in the original radio communications building. Put yourself in the shoes of a pilot and visit the interior of a Pilatus PC12 fuselage. You will be able to see the ways of communicating at the time when the telephone did not exist! Radios, old medical equipment but also modern airplanes to realize their evolution over the decades. Imagine in 1928 when the first pilot of the Flying Doctors, Arthur Affleck, had only a bad map and a compass for navigation instruments! He relied on rivers, telegraph lines and flew in a cockpit open to the wind and rain. Flights were mainly by day but sometimes at night in case of extreme emergency. The fuel was filled up in flight. It is a non-profit organization. All profits from the center's admission, coffee and sales on their website are invested in medical equipment and aircraft maintenance. Exciting visit.
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Nous lui préférons toutefois la découverte de faune et la flore locales.
Ne pas faire de détour spécifique si vous n'avez pas beaucoup de temps sur place.