YBBN will be fun this evening!

[Jabawocky]

Been the most sever storm I have seen at my office in Stafford in the 15 years I have been here.

This screen shot was not the worst of it either. A LOT of large hail in the CBD and east of me.
http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab58/jaba430/ScreenShot2014-11-27at45959PM_zps2d2b3283.png


Bit of circle work going on :uhoh: Hope the fuel uplifts carried a bit for mum and the kids.
http://i849.photobucket.com/albums/ab58/jaba430/ScreenShot2014-11-27at50908PM_zps7a706665.png

[Ultralights]

have a look whats happened at Archerfield!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3bgqcNCAAAaHBz.jpg

A couple of my Sikorsky colleagues are up there at the moment, now they need a new hotel room after the windows blew in and soaked everything!

[Ndegi]

YBAF area, Decathlon, C172, helicopters and a B Double blown over.

[Howard Hughes]

Shame it's 'Schoolies', Cooly looks OK for a diversion! ;)

[Squawk7700]

The owners of the 162 Skycatcher will be happy if it's written off !

[Stationair8]

76 knot gust at YBAF just after 4pm.

[Grogmonster]

Notam shows AF closed till 9am for WIP. I assume the cleanup.

Groggy

[BPA]

The two RA aircraft are almost new C162's Skycatcher's .

[Squawk7700]

They can't be very new as they stopped making them a while back :confused: New to the RAA register perhaps :ok:

Car RAMROD - it just occurred to me where your username came from :D

[MakeItHappenCaptain]

Two maintenance facilities had their doors removed completely.
Old Sunland hanger front and rear sections blown in.
Two Skycatchers and two Jabbapoos flipped out front of terminal. (At least they aren't blocking up the 60 minute temporary parking area any more as per usual.:rolleyes:) Pretty sure Pathfinder employees can take the week off...
C172 (MZW) and C152 (IVW) next to them also rolled up.
RQ Citabria balled up.
Multiple aircraft "moved"
TBM700 almost turned into a metro.

[holdingagain]

Virgin sent this out 25 hours before storm hit

Virgin text
Forecast storms may impact flights tomorrow and your Virgin Australia flight may be disrupted. We apologise for any inconvenience.

How right they were, flight cancelled

YBAF looks a bit battered but have seen a lot worse out there a long while back but certainly a big pain for the flipped over schools

No one has mentioned hail, was there any

[TBM-Legend]

Massive hail through Brisbane...

[Oakape]

Bit of circle work going on. Hope the fuel uplifts carried a bit for mum and the kids.

Not everyone had enough. You can see ANZ805 on the divert to Sydney in the bottom right corner of the screen. I think a QF flight diverted to SYD as well & some went to the Gold Coast.

When we went over on the approach to BNE a little later, Archerfield looked like a swamp & the NDB was out as well.

[AussieO2]

I see that the Fox Jet mock-up, on the pole, at ABC Spare Parts, Rocklea has lost the port wing and the stbd is severed. and a blue Robbie on its side at YBAF

[yssy.ymel]

Yeah, the Warbirds hangar was severely damaged. One of the doors ended up 150m over the fence in another paddock - the '44 (apparently Grant Kenny's) on its side. A few light planes pushed back toward the Warbirds hangar had one off the doors land on their wings, and the other door went back inside and narrowly (and I mean a hands width) missed the wing of a CJ1. The wind blew through took out the front doors of the office. A couple of guys missed getting hit by one of the doors by diving under an aircraft.

One guy in a CJ2 ex YSSY was given clearance, which was then cancelled with 60kt winds and the NDB gone. Looked pretty nasty down there.

[Squawk7700]

It doesn't take much wind to blow off a big hangar door. Ours went AWOL recently with nowhere near that much wind. It would have been scary; probably best to stand well clear, no point getting squashed for the sake of delaying the inevitable damage.

[TBM-Legend]

Which is warbirds hangar? Is it the old Steve Hart one?? How did the big yellow Invader Go??

Sounds rough ....I guess hail hit anything outside too...

[Ultralights]

https://scontent-b-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/10806463_10152926621393156_1050870686767501489_n.jpg?oh=ab0f 7cea8cbd6d45b62ed9924ab1651e&oe=54D28837

https://scontent-b-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10262243_10152926621373156_462966342156012224_n.jpg?oh=4efb5 30988c9604f101ace72a56af0b9&oe=551CB3F1

https://scontent-a-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10540788_10152926629013156_3688060079793986581_n.jpg?oh=984a 6c99f69e8555435e433d50968744&oe=5509DA05
Bits of flying debris?

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10441058_10152926629008156_152982547863520470_n.jpg?oh=5258a 49b72da3adc5d20dba24344d47e&oe=55088567&__gda__=1423149837_7d20f06826fc66d6f50c2887e0e1e15a

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1501799_10152926629018156_259378342533306199_n.jpg?oh=367ffa 02f95fb47c0b2dde2c68fcf51f&oe=550E61D1&__gda__=1427311721_23290acf14523b95901754f23b35ffb4

[jas24zzk]

3rd pic down...

Is that a Decath in the background?? :eek:

[Ultralights]

yep, IPI, was a hangar buddy here at Bankstown up until recently..

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10393966_10152926621338156_8881557107929625185_n.jpg?oh=b54f dcf35cc1763c044ccdd6d0e0914e&oe=550AF4AB&__gda__=1423473341_8b62c277c0b406ba5f39c0fc9f687a60

Very low time as well. sad.

[jas24zzk]

i'd be surprised if it doesn't return to the air.

Looks like its pretty much that everything damaged are available as replacements.

Sad sight tho, she looks like a clean and loved unit.

[Typhoon650]

Anything with a six cylinder Lycoming look like it's a write off?

[spinex]

Anything with a six cylinder Lycoming look like it's a write off?

No, but have we got a deal for you on a 6 cyl Jab engine!:8

Things could get a little interesting regarding the (airport installed) anchor cable which appears to have let go and allowed the majority of the flipped birds to go on their merry way. Have a close look at the photo below.
http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b550/Carling113/archer27-112_zps8581d83a.jpg

[BPA]

No 6 CYL Lycoming or 6 CYL Jabs in those two aicraft. The Cessna C162 Skycatcher is fitted with a Continental O-200D.

[MakeItHappenCaptain]

Is that a Decath in the background??


Airbatic, but not a Decathlon.

Steve Hart's hanger is the one down the west end. Two doors reattached yesterday. Two buggered. The Decathlon in there was smacked in the wing by a door and pushed back under one of the Yaks. L39 copped a ding on the right tip tank and door scraped the canopy and dinged the right side. Not major. Another door dropped on a Tomahawk and a C310 scraped one tank across the ground and banged the other into the hanger. Nothing operational inside damaged and the Sea Fury is OK. A20 was over at Cameron's and everything on that side of the airport seemed ok. Sheets of metal in trees near the BP. Lucky no-one killed.

[Tinstaafl]

Awww.... I used to instruct in MZW & IVW. Learnt aeros in IVW too. <sniiifff!>

[Car RAMROD]

Things could get a little interesting regarding the (airport installed) anchor cable which appears to have let go

Been there, done that. The airport will do their hardest to get out of having to cough up for the owners excess or repair bills. Make sure all owners of damaged planes (that were tied down, or hit by one that was tied down) all pursue the airport for the $$$.


Squawk7700- meow!

[spinex]

No 6 CYL Lycoming or 6 CYL Jabs in those two aicraft. The Cessna C162 Skycatcher is fitted with a Continental O-200D.

Pay attention in class, BPA, there are more than just the two flycatchers that got flipped, including surprise, surprise a couple of plastic fantastic Jabaloos. 'Sides I'm told they're giving Jab engines away with every cup of coffee at the Bundy Maccas at the moment.

[spinex]

Re the airport, I suspect the aircraft insurers will be after them to recover, never mind owners. They're not known for being backward in coming forward when there is the possibility of clawing back some of what they shelled out.

[ravan]

Don't worry Tinstaafl, only one of your birds, MZW, was written off.

The other that was flipped was actually IVZ, in which I have many instructing hours.

Unfortunately, it was already derelict having been bought by someone who couldn't (or didn't want to) pay his maintenance bills. A sad finale to a good little aeroplane.

[Towering Q]

Not a high-viz vest to be seen anywhere. Maybe normality is returning.

[muffman]

Will VH-SRO fly again? Saw it copped a leading edge beating but couldn't tell the extent from the pics.

[BPA]

spinex,
Yes I know more than the Skycatches were flipped but you need to pay attention to my post, as I said there are no 6 CYL Lycoming or 6 CYL Jabs IN THOSE TWO AIRCAFT, as the photo you posted is of Pathfinders two Skycatcher 's (24-8329 and 24-8511).

[spinex]

How green is yer anorak......? :cool: (Disclaimer: The smiley indicates that this is an attempt at humour and should not be read as necessarily referring to the balance of this post, including any images which may or may not be included)

I see the yellow Citabria IPI somehow managed to get over/between SRO and her stablemate and am told she was blown out of the open sided hangar in front of them. That aside there is going to be a whole lot of less dramatic damage about the field, I hear RQAC's RA reg Sling copped a bent aileron and both BFG's 172's are grounded, despite not having budged from their hangar.
http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b550/Carling113/archer27-113_zpsa8739e65.jpg

[wateroff]

Maybe poor old ISE might finally get a wash at least.

[MakeItHappenCaptain]

Many straightened tiedown hooks about.

One of the BFG's C172s was actually parked under Flight One's Chieftain after the event.

[rjtjrt]

Quote:
Things could get a little interesting regarding the (airport installed) anchor cable which appears to have let go
Been there, done that. The airport will do their hardest to get out of having to cough up for the owners excess or repair bills. Make sure all owners of damaged planes (that were tied down, or hit by one that was tied down) all pursue the airport for the $$$.

Whilst I don't expect people affected to not seek compensation, a lawyers interest in sueing is not in the interest of the general aviation community.
People salivating and braying for blood from airport owners in this respect will just result in all all airports in Australia removing all tie down provisions. Lawyers will be happy, but we will not. I want more airport facilities, not fewer. So seek compensation, but an out of court settlement without liability being admitted would probably be best in the long run.
Airport owners are not our enemy, and we want more facilities, not risk averse airport owners.

[Creampuff]

Airport owners used to be us...

[rjtjrt]

Airport owners used to be us...

Ah, nostalgia - it's not what it used to be!

[Traffic_Is_Er_Was]

How long has the cable been there? Perhaps it was installed before privitisation?

[601]

A lot of the cables were installed there in the 70s. That is last century.

I remember sitting in an Islander parked outside Rex Aviation watching a couple C180s come adrift from a cable and slide across the concrete during a storm in the mid 70s. One ended up under the wing of the Islander with the LH wingtip on the ground just clear of the RH main gear of the Islander.

The reason I was in the Islander was that there were no spare tiedown points anywhere on the field and had just parked it as the storm stuck. The place was full of aeroplanes. So I parked the Islander's tail to the expected wind as per the AFM. Other wise it would have flown away.

[gerry111]

Anything GA upside down at RAAF Richmond tonight? We've just had one of the storms of all time.

[Ultralights]

actually,there was very littel wind involved with most of the storms that passed through sydney last night, very heavy rain, countless lightning strikes at bankstown, but only 15 kt wind gusts.

[Squawk7700]

I was just north of the city last night, vertical and horizontal rain combined for 30 mins but very little wind. The traffic came to a standstill and it took over an hour from St Leonards to the City (usually 20 mins).

If this is global warming, I'm not impressed.

[gerry111]

The wind here at Richmond was a lot more than 15 kts! A number of large trees felled. And it bucketed down. Most of the town lost power for several hours. Traffic chaos as all seven sets of traffic lights were off. Even the trains were stranded. It was the wildest wx I've seen for quite a while.

[Two_dogs]

horizontal rain ... but very little wind
:confused:

[Ultralights]

winds stronger above ground level.

[Flying Binghi]

Found some video of the YBAF storm. Damn keen that cameraman :ok:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zzqrG64IbP0

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d1ooqt2ALpk

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi7hgLVxCr8

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FgN4a-RsRvc

[Aussie Bob]

I sincerely hope it is not about to happen again ...

Severe storms to hit Brisbane tonight (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-18/severe-storms-moving-toward-south-east-queensland/5977136)

[Jabawocky]

Maybe a bit on the south side.

Was a fizzer. My car hardly got wet all evening and even now it is hardly doing more than wet the grass.

The other week however :eek:

[jbr76]

Was a fizzer.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10857897_10152657896504302_6377581990046244081_n.jpg?oh=891d b3107c61dfd8a89381059eab3b58&oe=5542284B&__gda__=1426195037_6897bdd62df399e8d66038831092d711

Certainly wasn't a fizzer in my books ...