It was the third time lucky for 51 young local Scouts on Saturday when three aircraft from the Scouts NSW Air Activity Centre came to town.
Central Coast Aero Club at the Warnervale airport was the venue for a visit by three Scouts owned-and-operated Cessna 172 aircraft to give Scouts aged five to 18 a taste of flying.
Bad weather curtailed previous air activity days in March and June and although Saturday went ahead, high winds caused Sunday to be called off.
The Scouts NSW Air Activity Centre is based at Camden Airport, south-west of Sydney, and has been providing safe and fun aviation experiences for tens of thousands of youth and adults across the state since 1972.
It has produced many qualified pilots who made aviation their career, flying for commercial airlines, the Royal Flying Doctor Service, charter companies and Defence.
Participants have gone on to careers in other aviation related areas including air traffic control, or to be recreational pilots or taking family and friends to the air.