Newcastle Hang Gliding Club

Hi All,

I've been chatting with Rick and Allan. We checked the bureau, we checked Seabreeze, we with the locals, we checked with blipmap, we checked with XCskies, we checked the lint in our navels. The view isn't much good.

Allan will provide his usual excellent forecast, in the meantime, as we see it, along with the already wet ground, tomorrow will have a lot of cloud cover, probably no rain (more likely localised showers), and westerly wind, strong above. As Allan put it, too much weather!

Some points to consider making in your own objection to CAR166 (mandatory VHF at non towered aerodromes)
E-learning on the topic is here
http://casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:STANDARD::pc=PC_100101

comments can be provided dircetly from the home page:
http://casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:STANDARD::pc=PC_100169
an exmple follows in read more

Every cloud has a silver lining
I have been sick, feeling drained and the silver lining is that I have had the time to catch up with little things like organising my photo albums. It is enthusing and I hope that summer will hurry along. Dawson has done well at getting Coppermine up and running again, well deserving of the title Awesome Dawson.

Read more for photos and stories of Wollombi, Mt Koskiusco, Manilla and our 260km flight along the Murray River to Swan Hill.

I have added a custom filter to the site so that any email address which is included in a post will automatically be obfuscated.

"What does obfuscated mean?" I hear you ask.
Obfuscation is the process of taking some text and making it unrecognisable, whilst still allowing it to work in it's intended way.

"What a way to waste your time Dawson! Why weren't you out flying instead of doing that?" you may well ponder.

Saturday 26 Sunday 27 June
Aerotowing at Petes airstrip Denman
Trikes, ropes and dollies will be there. Bring hang gliders.
Sleep in the hangar or bring a tent.
Bring BBQ food. The town will be inundated by 800 or so pony club types.
Bring a donation for strip fees accom and BBQ gas for Pete and family.

We will continue to look at the weather, usualy a little better up the valley compared to coastal forecasts.

Gents,
I've received a few airspace / NOTAM questions from the central coast guys. Thought I'd repeat the answers here in case anyone's interested..........

Ant,
From a practical side, I don't think you will achieve much by calling Willy tower. Known HG/PG sites are marked on aviation maps which SHOULD give fast movers the info. Your call to tower will probably not filter back to us anyway.
Reference restricted airspace, HG/PG are NEVER allowed to fly in active restricted airspace - it's illegal.

A big thank you to Ricky & Airborne for letting us hang from their rafters, and to Scott for giving a presentation on chutes, Stuie for winding us up, and to everyone who came.

Watch this video on Youtube

By practicing deploying, hopefully we'll all be more prepared should we ever actually need to deploy, and some of us learned that we need to get new deployment bags, or that we've got to push rather than pull.

Thanks again for coming along.

Dawson

Gents,
For your info - the restricted airspace over Glennies (surface to 10,000) will be active Monday to Friday for the next two weeks. That's:
17-21 May
24-28 May

I have to pay for all my hang gliding equipment somehow, so I fly Hornets as a gig on the side. We'll be blasting through the Glennies area for the next two weeks. I had a laugh at work the other day when I saw that one of our 'holding' waypoints for the upcoming exercise is Lake St. Clair. Nope, can't be changed.