Storm Damage Melbourne Area
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Storm Damage Melbourne Area
Has the hail damaged any aircraft at Essendon or Moorabbin? I have never seen brown before on a radar image.
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The live streaming images were awesome (on the BOM website). The brown is land, the black is heavy/severe rain.
The remainder of racing at Flemington was cancelled and I get home, check the weather radar and see more rolling storms and also the MEL arrivals and departures queue looks amusingly long. "Delayed, delayed, delayed..."
Word from an associate at Moorabbin is that there was some minor damage to an a/c belonging to either MFS of MFT - but said associate is known for talking absolute bollocks.
The remainder of racing at Flemington was cancelled and I get home, check the weather radar and see more rolling storms and also the MEL arrivals and departures queue looks amusingly long. "Delayed, delayed, delayed..."
Word from an associate at Moorabbin is that there was some minor damage to an a/c belonging to either MFS of MFT - but said associate is known for talking absolute bollocks.
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Melton copped it pretty badly, with heavy hail the size of golf balls. About half a dozen cars were badly dented (inlcuding mine 
) and the windows of the building we were in were smashed.
This 310 is probably a write-off:
...and afterwards the relatively warm ground caused an amazing radiation fog.
) and the windows of the building we were in were smashed.This 310 is probably a write-off:
...and afterwards the relatively warm ground caused an amazing radiation fog.
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I wonder how many light aircraft at Essendon did not have their rudder chocked and therefore may have internal damage such as cable break or stretch. There is a CAO (?) somewhere - or used to be, anyway) that says an LAME must check any unrestrained control surfaces if the winds exceed 30 knots (?) including gusts. TEM is a good reason to install rudder chocks.
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Good question GG
I hope I never have to test this for real
but if our Retard Vehicle were in that hail storm the Composite sections would be fine! The rest would be more like a golf ball or worse 
I hope I never have to test this for real
but if our Retard Vehicle were in that hail storm the Composite sections would be fine! The rest would be more like a golf ball or worse
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I used to instruct in a 150 that was covered in golf ball like speed dimples and it flew just fine until mother nature came back and finished her off with a hangar door. I hope there weren't any new aircraft on the ground that got written off.
