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I'm impressed....
.....by the way some of you blokes can pick an airport by the size of the dung-beetle poo next to a standby-light pot....so where is this....any one but Forkie...facing roughly north west at 2000z....Flopt ..[again].
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hmmmm HDG around 270, ADF over left shoulder TRK around 260-262 from 114.20 prolly YBSU.....Could be Kingaroy or Kilcoy maybe on your way to Blackall or Charleville?
You need to post higher res fotos for us lazy folk.
You need to post higher res fotos for us lazy folk.
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cazbahkid pix -
1 Newcastle
2 Synga shipreck Stockton Beach
3 Stockton Beach
4 About to overfly Port Stephens lighthouse northbound (near Fingal Bay)
5 Cabbage Tree Island off Hawks Nest NSW
6 YPMQ runway 03 (agree with wishawas)
1 Newcastle
2 Synga shipreck Stockton Beach
3 Stockton Beach
4 About to overfly Port Stephens lighthouse northbound (near Fingal Bay)
5 Cabbage Tree Island off Hawks Nest NSW
6 YPMQ runway 03 (agree with wishawas)
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The below photo was taken west of Hughenden yesterday. I took it because the cells made an interesting photo. However, after looking at the shot this morning the cell on the left looks like a tornado.
The shape of the shower from it looks unusual and my initial thought was it was a disappating thunderstorm. However, there is a far bit of dirt/water being thrown up around the base, which you wouldn't get from a storm that is dying (only from an initial downdraft).
Wish I had of paid more attention to it while I was up there!
The shape of the shower from it looks unusual and my initial thought was it was a disappating thunderstorm. However, there is a far bit of dirt/water being thrown up around the base, which you wouldn't get from a storm that is dying (only from an initial downdraft).
Wish I had of paid more attention to it while I was up there!
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Thanks for the shots of Emerald. Rang a rellie in Capella this morning to enquire how the nieces house in Emerald was fareing, and advised that the water on the southwestern side of the town was lapping the doorstep, so hope that is its high tide mark. Believe the food trucks could get from Mackay to Capella, but then had to be unloaded and two pallets made a load for the choppers taking it the rest of the way into Emerald. Would like to see some photos of that if anyone has some.
Re. the shot of the cell west of Hughenden - do you mean to say Hughenden has actually had rain - must be one of the driest places in Qld - west of the divide and a long way down from the Gulf.. See the report was for flooding on the Jordan at Jericho too..
Thanks for the shots of Emerald. Rang a rellie in Capella this morning to enquire how the nieces house in Emerald was fareing, and advised that the water on the southwestern side of the town was lapping the doorstep, so hope that is its high tide mark. Believe the food trucks could get from Mackay to Capella, but then had to be unloaded and two pallets made a load for the choppers taking it the rest of the way into Emerald. Would like to see some photos of that if anyone has some.
Re. the shot of the cell west of Hughenden - do you mean to say Hughenden has actually had rain - must be one of the driest places in Qld - west of the divide and a long way down from the Gulf.. See the report was for flooding on the Jordan at Jericho too..
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Commiserations to Hedley on his Cherokee 6 that went under with his strip. Glad to hear the big birds got out O.K. And good work by the Blackhawks, they will be back on the job again tomorrow now that Avtur has arrived. Those private volunteers deserve a big hand for pitching in to keep the supplies flowing too.
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Those private volunteers deserve a big hand for pitching in to keep the supplies flowing too.
They did not know how to handle the offer of help? System is lacking in that way it seems. So I sit here fat dumb and happy in Brisbane willing to help but nowhere to start?
So I eventually phoned the Mayor of one region and she advised they just got their water treatment going again but just....and roads were starting to clear so the problem was off there.....but as things change by the hour you need a co-ordinated approach not a bunch of well meaning folk wandering aimlessly.
Anyway a big pat on the back to those doing a great job to help folk affected by the floods.
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I once flew insurance assessors to a station in South Australia.
A caravan (the kind that you tow) had been shattered and spread across the plain like confetti. Only the wheels were left. A trailer from a road train had been moved about 30 metres. A water tank had also been shredded nd spread around. The top had been ripped out of a gum tree.
A cessna 172 which was not tied down, and was about 100 metres waywas undisturbed.
The house was un disturbed.
This fierce, localised event must have been a tornado.
I once flew insurance assessors to a station in South Australia.
A caravan (the kind that you tow) had been shattered and spread across the plain like confetti. Only the wheels were left. A trailer from a road train had been moved about 30 metres. A water tank had also been shredded nd spread around. The top had been ripped out of a gum tree.
A cessna 172 which was not tied down, and was about 100 metres waywas undisturbed.
The house was un disturbed.
This fierce, localised event must have been a tornado.
Jaba,
Something like this was started after Katrina in the states...lightie owners were the only heavy lift that could get in to a lot of the disaster areas.
Something like Angel Flight but as a lift capability...could work?
Something like this was started after Katrina in the states...lightie owners were the only heavy lift that could get in to a lot of the disaster areas.
Something like Angel Flight but as a lift capability...could work?
Call me cynical, but....
Those of you wanting to fly over the floodwaters to see history and record it for the rest of us, make sure you remain within gliding distance and altitude of dry land or remember to carry life jackets.
Don't want to tempt CASA now do we.
Those of you wanting to fly over the floodwaters to see history and record it for the rest of us, make sure you remain within gliding distance and altitude of dry land or remember to carry life jackets.
Don't want to tempt CASA now do we.
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I read Jaba's comments about helping. Let me tell you there is a heap of charter operators with aircraft just sitting around. Very capable aircraft at that but no one will use them because the whole effort is so disorganised. That is except for all the private pilots and aircraft out there that are "cost sharing". Read total sarcasm just in case you don't get my drift.
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