What about Terabaginarf and Bringmebarraback?
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:aus-soaring- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Cleaver > Sent: Wednesday, 14 May 2008 12:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. > Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Decodes for area met briefings > > Not so Robert > > The PCA contains a map on one side with Area Forecast boundaries, HF > frequencies and all the MET locations identified by code, and on the > other side a complete list of these locations both by name and by code. > > Some of them are IFR waypoints (eg LEYOX - which is very close to an > old one called OXLEY that is in Western NSW, and GAFFA which is in > the middle of nowhere - the Great Australian not-very-much) whilst > others are aerodromes and others are 3 or 4 letter codes for places > without an aerodrome, > > Apart from the fact that these are what is used in all sorts of > weather reports and forecasts, as others have said there is no reason > not to use their real names (where they have one) but it will still > need a map of some sort to see where they are - hence the PCA and its > regular updates. > > And if you think people don't need a special map for the purpose, can > readers pinpoint the following without referring to a map? > > Gulargambone > Tullibigeal > Oodnagalarvie > Bolivia > Richmond - all 7 of them? > Point Perpendicular > Seal Rocks > Warburton > Cape Leveque > Coober Pedy > (just to pick 10 location names at random) > > Wombat > > At 07:20 13/05/2008, you wrote: > >Mike Cleaver wrote: > >>Alternatively you could go to your local Airservices' map reseller > >>and buy a copy of the current PCA (Planning Chart Australia) which > >>shows the locations and the Area Forecast boundaries. You can carry > >>them around more easily than Robert's Google Earth map too - even > >>on the cockpit if you want. > >Very true, Mike. > > > >However, the PCA only helps in locating places you don't know (or > >are unsure about) once you have decoded them and then looked up the > >lat/long in ERSA. > > > >I have been using the area met briefings somewhat irregularly for a > >few years and, while I know quite a number of the ICAO airfield > >codes around Qld and northern NSW, I don't know many (if any) if the > >three letter VFR way point codes that are also regularly used in the > >forecasts. > > > >So, from now on, when I'm on the ground getting together a weather > >briefing, using Google Earth is going to be the way I cope with > >these wretched codes from now on! > > > >I do question why we are still using these codes today. I can > >understand that in the days of slow morse code and then > >teletypewriter transmission short codes saved time. In today's > >world, I can see only one reason - and that's because it has always > >been done that way! > > > >-- > >Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >+61 (0)438 385 533 http://www.hart.wattle.id.au > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Aus-soaring mailing list > >[email protected] > >To check or change subscription details, visit: > >http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
