safty flags

Go to your local 4wd shop who should be able to supply you with all the goodies and information.

I can't say if flags are mandatory in the Simpson, but they are a good idea anywhere in dune country.

I have a three metre flag mounted to the bull bare, which I have been using for about two years. The feedback I have received on it suggests that it has averted at least two or three head-ons. As such I would recommend the taller, the better.

3 metres is probably a practical limit, as they tend to hit overhanging tree branches from time to time. The down side is the difficulty in storing the flagpole in the car when not being used. There are a number of flags being produced with two part or telescopic poles. They are more expensive than the shorter single piece flagpoles but the extra visibility they provide is well worth it.

Have a look in the archives. This has been covered lots of times.
Flags are not compulsory but should be.
I use a fishing pole blank with a piese of safety vest material on the top.
Got the fishing pole from a garage sale for $10, cut the guides off and stuck the dayglow material on. Held onto Bull Bar with big hose clamps. When you don't need it, stow on the roof rack.
Vince

I use an old 27mhz Fiberglass Whip with some saftey vest material on it. It screws quickly onto an HUGE old spring base that I had that I have fixed permantally to the roof rack. It stoes along the side of the car next to the door sills (where I also store my annex poles).

dingo
flag not mandatory but certainly would use one
have a lokk at pushbike shops where can pick up long ones pretty cheap.
worth comparing prices and heights from cple 4wd shops
mounted mine to cb aerial with duct tape or depending on uhf aerial could do same with that
cheers
fozzy

also keep your uhf radio tuned to channel 10.... that should give you a 2 or 3 km warning...

Dingo,

A flag is a must but not compulsory, however a Desert Park Pass is compulsory and in the book that you get with the pass it will have all the safty requiments for a desert crossing.

Passes are obtainable from this site.

Wayne

by the date of this you'll know I'm a bit late but I've made a flag out of two farm electric fence picket fibreglass rods joined and araldited with a 4" piece of copper pipe. This makes it 2.4metres long and stores inside our roof rack side rails until needed. It attatches at the front right of the rack into a short tube with a little locking bolt. The flag is one of those green/orange flouro coloured jobs that slides on the end and tied through a hole drilled in the rod.