Do I need a sand /dune flag?

[B.S.F.]

Do I need a sand/dune flag between Innamincka and Coongie lakes? Thank you .W.

[KarlB]

No.

Cheers
KarlB
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[Eevo]

nope.

if u cant see a big car, why would you see a little flag?

might help if your in the supermarket car park and cant remember where you left the car...

[goingbush]

There was, ahhh for want of a better word, a ****** that pulled into Longreach Caravan Park in a LC 200 with a mega huge caravan, with WDH and all the typical satelite dishes, onboard washing machines and who knows what else. The Van was sitting up on tandem 16" rims but it was so long that the approach and departure angles were about 15 degrees. These guys make me laugh, there is no way they can go any much more than a flat, straight road.

He had a full height orange sand pole and flag, he kept it on the whole week driving around town. What a dick,

[newhue]

Turn head lights on. Can see them far easier, and a long time before any flag.
Unless your flag is 2 to 2.5 higher than the car, it worthless anyway imo. I use an old bamboo beach fishing rod.

[weeds]

I haven't been to coongie lakes.....but I'm yet to understand the flag thing

I did have one on my Simpson trip, only because everybody said I had to.......don't think I would bother next time

[newhue]

isn't it a marketing gimmick picked up initially by ARB on the back of some OHS garbage the mines thought up.

If the flag is high enough you can see it amongst vegetation, or perhaps just before cresting a dune. If it's not really high it useless.

[Tombie]

A decent height flag has saved me more than a few times.

On a flat road I wouldn't bother though as at speed they just get torn apart.

On the mine spec vehicles I just don't bother removing it.
On my vehicle I have a quick disconnect.

[POD]

Not necessary on the Coongie Lakes road, there are no sandhills to cross. When you get up there, if you plan to camp on the lake shore rather than the creek, you go into the dunes a bit but trust me you don't need a flag. Take a canoe, we were up there a few weeks ago and I really wished I had taken the canoe. You can hire a crap one in Innamincka.

[ramblingboy42]

you don't need a flag , you don't have to have a flag, but if you are in dunes they actually work.....if theyre high enough.....you can see them climbing a dune well before you see the vehicle under it.

[Discomark]

We had one for the Simpson crossing and I'd say it is handy for that type of terrain. What saved us though was chatting on the CB. On one occasion we were about to gun it up a big dune but a bloke on the other side heard us chatting, he was about the do the same from the opposite direction so lucky he heard us. :o
A flag would not of made much difference if we had met at the top as you really need momentum on the big dunes so it would have been too late if we had met at the top.