Fog - the great leveller
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Fog - the great leveller
Looks like someone important won't be getting to bed early. Challenger (presume RAAF) from Canberra missed at YMML, tried YMEN, circled some more and just landed at YMAV with the vis somewhere between 900m and 100m (consecutive METARs)
PS I'm not really a plane spotter - just stuck in Sydney wondering if I'll end up in Melbourne or Brisbane - the two possible alternatives VA have given me....
PS I'm not really a plane spotter - just stuck in Sydney wondering if I'll end up in Melbourne or Brisbane - the two possible alternatives VA have given me....
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Hey UTR,
That will teach ya to live down there.
Not far from AY but this was 9am at Deni…..icing n the mirror at ground level, Temp -2.0C
Glad I was only seeing this by SMS and not actually there. It was 19dC and climbing (CAVOK) where I was
That will teach ya to live down there.
Not far from AY but this was 9am at Deni…..icing n the mirror at ground level, Temp -2.0C
Glad I was only seeing this by SMS and not actually there. It was 19dC and climbing (CAVOK) where I was
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20DME ML on the 340 radial it was clear skies, I know 'cause that's where Wmk2 lives:-)
Got the Quad drone out today & video'd the muck...yuk!
You can see the murk down Sth from ground level, now I know why I left the rat race many years ago
'Tis that time of year, high pressure, cold clear nights, the Fog God goes to work:-)
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Got the Quad drone out today & video'd the muck...yuk!
You can see the murk down Sth from ground level, now I know why I left the rat race many years ago
'Tis that time of year, high pressure, cold clear nights, the Fog God goes to work:-)
Wmk2
Fog as far as the eye can see.
This was taken about 0815. I confidently predicted that the fog should start to lift/break up by around 0900. I wasn't even close. It was more like midday or a bit after when it finally started to disappear.
This was taken about 0815. I confidently predicted that the fog should start to lift/break up by around 0900. I wasn't even close. It was more like midday or a bit after when it finally started to disappear.
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Evidently the fog rolled in early last night at YMEN. It was still there as I approached LACEY this morning at about 0915 and was going to hold for 30 minutes when advised that it was clearing from the north. Made a visual approach to 17 when you still wouldn't have got in off a 26 ILS. 
Mind you it was -1 at YGTH this morning and the bleedin' aircraft needed de-icing yet again. Never so pleased to get airborne and get the heater on and thaw out.
Mind you it was -1 at YGTH this morning and the bleedin' aircraft needed de-icing yet again. Never so pleased to get airborne and get the heater on and thaw out.
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Well this is why YMML spent a small fortune on a CAT III system.
Even some INT missed out yesterday so clearly use of CATIIIb isn't universal.
I gather Australia does not have any Cat 111 or Cat 11 runways?
I spent end of last week in Mt Gambier - a place invented to make Melburnians feel good about their weather.
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ML RWY 27 is available for LVTO to appropriately trained crews. Minimum 125 metres visibility. RWY 16 also 125 metres or 100 metres LOC guided takeoff.
550 metres applies to CAT I landing provided the TDZ transmissometer is serviceable.
550 metres applies to CAT I landing provided the TDZ transmissometer is serviceable.
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I spent end of last week in Mt Gambier - a place invented to make Melburnians feel good about their weather.
