Dick Smith invests in more airport weather cameras in April 2024 !
 

14 months on from Dick Smith's welcome donation of $10,000 towards weather cameras in 2023, we are now partnering to do it all again this year with yet another donation!

Last year we got around 26 new sites and over 60 cameras online, resulting in a huge boost to aviation safety in Australia.

I'm running it all again this year, so feel free to post below, or email me at [email protected] The more we talk about cameras and where we want them, the better for everyone.

Be sure to include the following:

- The planned location for your cameras
- How many cameras you think you'll need
- If you already have internet access or not
- A contact person and phone number (especially if it's not you that will be organising it)

Once I collate all the responses I'll assess and prioritise the submissions and start rolling out the gear. We won't be able to pay for your new Starlink, but I'll do my best to help you out!

A HUGE THANKS to Dick Smith for making this a reality again!

Well done to Dick and everyone involved in this. It sure makes for better planning being able to "look ahead"

Always gets me that the major airports don't seem to have them it's the smaller guys that do.

Keep up the good work !!

As you can probably imagine, the bigger ones are the hardest to deal with!

Dick is a great Australian carrying out philanthropic acts mostly unknown to the public.

This is another great contribution by Dick, a great opportunity for smaller and remote airports and worthy of our strong support.

Thanks Dick! :ok:

And thanks to Squawk 7700 for organising this program. :ok:

Lots of interest thus far and I'll post an update on where we're looking at making some inroads, particularly into areas with limited to no current coverage, outside of the J-Curve.

Kilcoy Airfield Aero Club to the north-west of Brisbane are the first cab off the rank for a set of cameras thanks to Dick.

They will be shipped up there tomorrow and with any luck may be running by the weekend.

Nice work guys for being a pleasure to work with and make it happen quickly :-)

What is the URL link to the cameras?

https://myairportcams.com

Great news!

Ballina are now onboard. I’ll be shipping their gear over next week.

We’ve located a perfectly placed hangar with a perfect view of the runway.

More news... discussions are taking place around installing cameras at Horn Island and on some of the surrounding islands. They are desperately need up there!

Our first set of Dick Smith sponsored cameras are already up and running thanks to the energetic members of the aero club there.

I can already tell by the surrounding mountains that these will be a valuable aviation safety asset. I also notice that there's a helipad at the nearby hospital so these have the ability to assist with the safe airlifting of passengers into and out of the hospital.



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That would be game changing for those folks. Don’t underestimate how important these tools are GA Pilots. Your funding and work is much appreciated gents. Your work does not go unnoticed.