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Holy Dustbuster Batman
For those of you flying later on the east coast - pack your dustbuster - vis dramatically reduced in Bris Vegas - looks, smells, tastes like a good Mt Isa Red - dirt that is.
Looks like a sunny afternoon in Hong Kong!!!!!!!!!!!!! :E:E MMMMMGOI |
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..almost, vis down to less than half a mile in Brissie, turned around this morning south of Kingaroy when the sigmet was issued, and am very happy I did so.. wouldn't wanna be caught in this under any circumstances, together with the 40 knot winds a recipe for disaster :eek: Emerald seemingly looks similar, forecast as far north as Croydon!
loved the 165 knot ground speed on the way back (115 TAS) though :ok: Unreal how different it was on the ground at YBAF even on my return at 6.30, scattered clouds at around 6500, almost no wind at the surface at all! Where you see the crow in the pic you'd normally have the Brisbane skyline.... I can taste and smell it sitting at my desk, it's coming through the smallest cracks and forming a nice yucky layer of dust everywhere :{ http://i706.photobucket.com/albums/w.../IMG_1670s.jpg |
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At least you city slickers can get a bit of red dirt on your nav gear and look the goods of a bush pilot :ok:
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wow, Ultralights, there I was contemplating a little bike ride myself, won't bother now :\
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A Singapore Airlines spokeswoman said flight SQ221, a Boeing A380 due to fly to Sydney from Melbourne before continuing to Singapore, has been delayed indefinitely. She said Sydney Airport was likely to suffer delays all day. |
This sounds better than it really was.......... :eek:
BRISBANE (YBBN) METAR TTF SPECI YBBN 230216Z 24023KT 0200 HEAVY DUSTSTORM VV003 27/02 Q1005 RMK RF00.0/000.0 FM0216 24020G30KT 0500 BLOWING DUST NSC FM0216 MOD/SEV TURB BLW 5000FT TAF TAF AMD YBBN 222351Z 2300/2406 32020KT 9999 SCT040 BECMG 2301/2303 27018G28KT 1500 BLOWING DUST NSC BECMG 2303/2305 25018G28KT 0500 DUST NSC BECMG 2306/2308 27018G28KT 4000 BLOWING DUST NSC FM231000 25012KT 8000 NSC RMK FM230000 MOD TURB BLW 5000FT TILL230100 FM230100 MOD/SEV TURB BLW 5000FT TILL231000 FM231000 MOD TURB BLW 5000FT TILL231500 T 27 28 25 20 Q 1006 1003 1005 1008 ATIS ATIS YBBN F 230217 APCH: EXP INSTRUMENT APCH RWY: 19 + OPR INFO: START CLEARANCE REQUIRED. RWY VISIBILITY RWY 19, 600 METRES AT TIME 0216 UTC. BRISBANE VOR AND DME NOT AVBL DUE MAINT. HIAL ON, LOW VISIBILITY PROCEDURES IN PROGRESS WND: 240/20G30KTS MAX XW 27 KTS RWY 19 CLD: SKY OBSCURED + TMP: 27 QNH: 1005 SIGWX: MOD TURB FCST B050 |
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Looks like it would have been a good time to strip the paint off a few that were due to save the cost of having someone do it by hand for a new paint job!
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Hey Ando, any chance of a link to some high-res versions of those photos?
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You guys need to remove the yellow filters from your camera lenses before you take pictures like that... here, let me help you... ;)
http://www.blueskiesdesign.co.nz/nodust.jpg |
i dont think anyone will be able to top his!
goes completely black, imagine flying into this! Broken Hill, today. NSW Dust storm approaching |
Couldn't help laughing this morning when I saw on TV Sydney being hit by the dust storm, & all the whingeing that was going on. I've just lived through two days of that - at one stage watching several sheets of corrugated iron on my front verandah lifting up & flopping back down again & waiting for it to part company with the rest of the structure & disappear!
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Nothing new under the Sun
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imag...-postcard-.jpg
Fierce dust storms became regular events in Broken Hill from the 1890s. Here you can see a dust storm in 1907. Powerhouse Museum – Photo of the Day |
Ozzie - pm me your email address and I'll send them through. Photobucket, where I uploaded them, isn't much better than what you see above.
remoak - nice one! Looks like we're back in the 80s though. Fierce dust storms became regular events in Broken Hill from the 1890s. Here you can see a dust storm in 1907. |
Ultralights, I would cry my eyes out if my Ducati looked like that :{ :{
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Planky, nice picture! did the crow have its CIR???:}
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I paxed to BNE from CNS today with QF, landing about 1240 after half an hours holding. I've never seen anything like it. Approaching 19, the sea was just visible before we crossed the coast, and rolling through on the RWY, the terminal was not visible.
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Yep A380 driver thats exactly what it reminded me of especially when i saw my car covered in dirt reminded me of all the abandoned cars over there:ok:
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