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flightleader

14th Jun 2008 09:14

Sugarloaf

Can anyone give me some help by telling me what it means by "RMK SUGARLOAF 17011kt" at the end NZCH METAR? Thanks.

The Cassidy Kid

14th Jun 2008 09:28

It's the actual wind measured at sugarloaf, on the top of the port hills. Just like the Kaukau wind in Wellington. :ok:

Got the horn

15th Jun 2008 00:12

..and now from Swampy down Dunners way too.

bentleg

15th Jun 2008 04:15

Quote:

Can anyone give me some help by telling me what it means by "RMK SUGARLOAF 17011kt" at the end NZCH METAR?

I'm not a kiwi but logically it sounds like "Wind at Sugarloaf 170 degrees 11 knots"

startingout

15th Jun 2008 11:29

I never though sugarloaf was that high when i used to ride my bike up there. :ok:

Uncle Chop Chop

19th Jun 2008 05:19

I climbed it on the piss once...

mattyj

19th Jun 2008 08:58

Sugarloaf is named for the famous meal that Young GA pilots brew up for dinner, made from the sweepings off the hangar floor..1 cup of sugar, and the last 20ml of long life milk out of the aeroclub fridge..all baked in an oil pan for 1 hour at 180 degrees. Kept many a young instructor alive over a Canterbury winter!!

flightleader

29th Jun 2008 10:49

Thank you all!

Windshear

29th Jun 2008 11:51

The sugarloaf is a main navigation VFR point between Mt Hagen to Mendi or Tari for some us old PNG chaps .. eh Torres :ok:

Old 'Un

29th Jun 2008 21:16

Topo map shows trig point at Sugarloaf as 496m. From memory, that trig is on a craggy outcrop just behind the tower. That being the case, the anemometer will be at or about that height, possibly on the tower at about 500m AMSL.

Now, where's me calculator? (hurrah for metrication - NOT!)

Le Vieux

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