CASA Community Grants now open – for Weather Cameras?
 

On Monday 20th March, CASA released the link for their Community Grants for this year.

How about applying for a grant for your NFP or community group, club or otherwise and request that the grant goes the installation of weather cameras?

Be sure to include information as to how the installation of cameras would enhance safety for your airfield or transiting aircraft.

In the cost section, you’ll need to enter in information about how much you’d expect to spend. Based on the generous donation by Dick Smith recently to the weather camera community, we have worked out that we have spent around $450 on average per site. Some were as low as $200 and ranged up to $1,000. This usually covers 2+ cameras and in some cases internet and a router. If you don’t have internet available, I’d be suggesting to ask for $500 to get you started.

I can’t personally apply because by small sole-trader business is not community or NFP, but I encourage you do apply and try your luck!

If you’re lucky enough to be approved, I’d be more than help you by providing information on how to install the cameras and host the images and of course I’d happily sell you some cameras, however this is all about safety, so nothing is forcing you to come to me.

https://www.casa.gov.au/about-us/con...ommunity-grant


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It looks to me as if there's a few bare patches that could do with filling up - I wonder if there's a geo database of airfields you could overlay and which might show where best to target new installations?

From the brief look I had at CASA's application form it didn't seem to me to be geo-fenced. By that I mean that if a group domiciled in Brisbane regularly flew to the middle of W.A. (unlikely I know but you get the point!) then I see no reason why they couldn't apply for funding for a camera or two along the way, and in W.A.?

Better still perhaps if various people got together and applied some reasonable logic to the above and presented a creditable case for a number of cameras in strategic positions...

FP.