redozbris Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Howdy all... On the Brisbane VTC Down the Bottom Left is a small airport called amberly... some of you might have visited it .. some may not have... Quetion for you all, I am pretty sure i know the answer, and there is no such thing as a stupid question, There is a second pie shaped ring at 20nm (and one out further at 30nm) from Amberley (20nm AMP ARP) Is this controlled airspace when the ctr is active? My money says yes, but for us unitiated types, the red lines mean military on the vtc, but the red line with the small hairs on it (hey, I'm descriptive) dont seem to be in the legend.. Just want to make sure, to me it means that Coominya/Forest Hill etc inside the 20nm and that inside the 30nm chunk means that they are off limits, plus all the restricted areas etc.... Just curious, The one time I've been down there I checked on NAIPS before heading to make sure all the R62X's areas where de-activated, and checked the ersa... thank you ladies and gents... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Hey! Yep in the 20nm ring it's a restricted area when they are active, unless under 1500ft which is only a Danger area. In the 30nm ring R620D doesn't apply till 4500. These area's aren't always active, but most week days they are, worth checking the NOTAMS or call up Bris Center to check. You get spoilt when you fly through there often with a clearance, and forget about all those that can't! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J170 Owner Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Amberly is a military airbase. The Royal Australian Air Force's RAAF Base Amberley is our largest base, employing over 3500 people. It is 40kms south-west of Brisbane on the outskirts of Ipswich. A large number of units call Amberley home: Combat Support Group Combat Support Unit Amberley - base managers No 395 Expeditionary Combat Support Wing No 382 Expeditionary Combat Support Squadron No 396 Expeditionary Combat Support Wing Detachment Amberley Airfield Defence Wing No 1 Airfield Defence Squadron - Airfield Defence Guards No 2 Airfield Defence Squadron - Airfield Defence Guards [*]Health Services Wing 1 Expeditionary Health Squadron Health Operational Conversion Unit [*]Reserve Training Wing No 23 Squadron [*]No 44 Wing Detachment Amberley - air traffic control [*]No 82 Wing - strike and reconnaissance No 1 Squadron - F/A-18F Super Hornet Fighter No 6 Squadron - F/A-18F Super Hornet Fighter No 4 Squadron - Pilatus PC-9/A Trainer [*]No 36 Squadron - C-17 Globemaster heavy transport aircraft [*]No 33 Squadon - KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport [*]No 87 Squadron - photography [*]No 278 Squadron - flight simulator and technical training [*]No 1 Airfield Operations Support Squadron - airfield engineering [*]RAAF Security and Fire School - security, fire-fighting and military working dog training Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 By the way, they cleared me direct over the field at 1000ft one day as I came out of Archerfield, that was pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redozbris Posted January 28, 2012 Author Share Posted January 28, 2012 Thanks Thought so... !! Whenever I get nearby I bug Brisbane Centre to double check if its active or not, just was very curious! Thanks all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howard Hughes Posted January 28, 2012 Share Posted January 28, 2012 Whenever I get nearby I bug Brisbane Centre to double check if its active or not, just was very curious! Thanks all! You can always listen out on the ATIS Frequency if you have an ADF (359), this will tell you if it's active or not. Then whilst operating in the area, make sure you are on CTAF frequency (which should be the Tower frequency 118.3), should it become active at anytime they will announce on that frequency normally as "Amberley airspace and associate resticted areas will become active at time XX", or words to that effect. Cheers, HH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 You can always listen out on the ATIS Frequency if you have an ADF (359) Yeah indeed, why they don't have the ATIS on a VH frequency is beyond me. I haven't flown a RAA plane with an ADF yet! Oaky has ATIS on 124.3 from memory. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Yeah indeed, why they don't have the ATIS on a VH frequency is beyond me. I haven't flown a RAA plane with an ADF yet! Oaky has ATIS on 124.3 from memory. Try this number 07 53613581 (ATIS by phone) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted January 31, 2012 Share Posted January 31, 2012 Try this number 07 53613581 (ATIS by phone) Thanks Kiwi, I've got that in my phone, but I reckon it would just make more sense to have it on a VH frequency too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zodiac3813 Posted February 2, 2012 Share Posted February 2, 2012 Hey!Yep in the 20nm ring it's a restricted area when they are active, unless under 1500ft which is only a Danger area. In the 30nm ring R620D doesn't apply till 4500. These area's aren't always active, but most week days they are, worth checking the NOTAMS or call up Bris Center to check. You get spoilt when you fly through there often with a clearance, and forget about all those that can't! Oh well, we get spoilt with our low flying costs instead... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shags_j Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Starnge that it isn't on VH Freq... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz3g Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Starnge that it isn't on VH Freq... Even some that are can't be accessed by older VHF's because of tighter channel spacing or being outside the ordinary range of frequencies or frequency spacings for most of us. My old ICOM A200 is more than due for an upgrade and I'm saving my pennies so this can occur. kaz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Hi All, This morning I found Amberley ATIS on 123.3 Nothing in ERSA yet. Kiwi 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 AT LAST? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 Hi All,This morning I found Amberley ATIS on 123.3 Nothing in ERSA yet. Kiwi Hi All, I found Amberley ATIS on 123.3 working again, I don't know if it is here to stay...... I hope it is. Kiwi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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