A while ago we were working with racal on a portable transponder to allow access outside 30nm Sydney between the Bindook - Sydney track and the Sydney - Katoomba track. Plan was to tow west from Camden into the secondary around The Oaks - Oakdale, climb, then explore above the inbound and outbound traffic.
If you can get over the SY -KAT traffic a run further north would be good fun. Maybe one day when Dick gets the airspace redesigned. Peter Heath. ---- Mike Borgelt <[email protected]> wrote: ============= I've flown in wave in an easterly on the Darling Range from the old Perth Gliding Club field at Byford. Also seen wave clouds over Perth city in a South Easterly when I was a BoM forecaster. I think under the right conditions it ought to be possible to fly from RAAF Pearce or Gingin just to the north of there(the range peters out from there north) to Donnybrook and back. Be a fun flight. May also be possible in a westerly by ridge soaring. Unfortunately we have lots more controlled airspace in Australia and there is in the US. Mike At 12:55 AM 5/4/2016, you wrote: >Â At Narromine (2007?) a few people were >interested in wave XC so we had a chat. I >thought it would be advantageous for Australian >wave sites to put their heads together to map >the local wave locations along the ranges, with >the idea of putting together longer wave XC flights. >Wave doesn't just occur in New Zealand, the >Andes and Sierra Nevada. There have been many >wave flights in Australia but mostly on a fairly local scale. >Â In California, Ramy Yanetz and Kempton Izuno >have been putting ideas together for flying in >the coastal ranges, which are about as tall and >inconsistent as the Great Dividing Range. >Â Kemp had a very nice flight the other day in >FNX (Phoenix), an ASH25 which had burned when >the rear canopy was left open, and was rebuilt. >He documented the forecast and flight on the >Williams Soaring Center newsgroup. Now it has >been published in the Valley Soaring Association >newsletter. One fantastic aspect is the >overflight of San Francisco Class B airspace and >downtown San Francisco. There are video links. >Â It's too easy to think this sort of thing can't be done. >Jim > ><http://www.valleysoaring.net/?page_id=3229>http://www.valleysoaring.net/?page_id=3229 > >_______________________________________________ >Aus-soaring mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring Borgelt Instruments - design & manufacture of quality soaring instrumentation since 1978 www.borgeltinstruments.com tel: 07 4635 5784 overseas: int+61-7-4635 5784 mob: 042835 5784 : int+61-42835 5784 P O Box 4607, Toowoomba East, QLD 4350, Australia _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
