Anyone See Anything Wrong With This Yscb Briefing?

[mnewbery]

I copied this rather long briefing from the airservices website this morning. Then I cut out the boring bits.

 

Comments below are totally tongue-in-cheek, if a little cutting

 

CANBERRA (YSCB)

 

METAR TTF SPECI YSCB 042200Z 21003KT 9999 FEW005 14/13 Q1016 RMK

 

RF00.0/009.4 NOSIG

 

TAF TAF COR YSCB 041638Z 0418/0518 VRB05KT 9999 SCT015 BECMG 0422/0424

 

30010KT 9999 FEW030 BECMG 0510/0512 09008KT 9999 BKN025 PROB30

 

0418/0422 0500 FOG RMK T 12 13 19 23 Q 1014 1016 1017 1016

 

(30% chance of fog at 500 AGL between 5am daylight savings and 9am, oops thats Canberra)

 

ATIS ATIS YSCB G 042140

 

+ APCH:

 

RWY: 35

 

OPR INFO: TWY C AND H WORKS IN PROGRESS, REFER NOTAM. RWY 35

 

ILS NOT AVBL, DO NOT USE FALSE INDICATIONS POSSIBLE

 

WIND: VRB 5 KTS, OCNL DW 3

 

+ VIS: GT 10 KM

 

+ WX: FG PATCHES IN AREA

 

+ CLD: FEW004

 

+ TMP: 14

 

QNH: 1016

 

(WTF? Its been bucketing rain for the last week, how can we not have ILS? Aren't the airlines complaining or are they using WAAS? I saw a QANTAS 737 bashing through the muck so maybe someone is getting in...)

 

C0449/11

 

OBST CRANES 2075FT AMSL

 

BRG BTN 276 AND 290 MAG BTN 1000M AND 915M FM RWY 30 TKOF THR

 

BRG 316 AND 331 MAG BTN 881M AND 934M FM RWY 35 LANDING THR

 

OBST INFRINGES INNER HORIZONTAL SFC TO 2075FT AMSL

 

CRANES LIT WITH WHITE OBST LGT

 

FROM 01 082000 TO 04 090700

 

HJ MON TO SAT

 

(mmm, cranes. Should be fun during a moment of weather pressure *joke*)

 

C0450/11

 

AIP DEP AND APCH (DAP) EAST YSCB AMD

 

DUE TO VMC ONLY CRANE OPS

 

ILS-Y OR LOC-Y S-I ILS(5.0 MAP) 2220(350-2.0)

 

IN IMC CRANES LOWERED USE PUBLISHED DA

 

FROM 01 082000 TO 04 090700

 

HJ MON TO SAT

 

(How considerate, they lower the cranes in IMC. Shame about the localiser radios being cactus FOR THREE FREAKIN' MONTHS! How's that morning fog looking then... Hope the pilots are proficient with other forms of radio navigation. Who tells the crane drivers to lower their masts and do they get pissed off when they are told they can't drive cranes even though nobody can actually fly-into-the-airport?)

 

C0001/12 REVIEW C0444/11

 

REGULAR PUBLIC TRANSPORT (RPT) APRON RESTRICTIONS DUE WIP

 

RPT APRON BAYS 11,12,18,18A,19,19A,20,AND 20A NOT AVBL DUE WIP

 

RPT APRON BAYS 16 AND 16A AVBL TO J41 AND METRO 2/3 OPERATIONS ONLY

 

RPT APRON BAY 10 ALT LEAD IN MARKING AND ALT PUSH BACK PROCEDURES IN

 

PLACE

 

REF METHOD OF WORKING PLAN 2011/08 AMEND 1 STAGE 4B

 

FROM 01 090200 TO 03 200700 EST

 

(Looks as bad as it sounds. Didn't we already do this in 2009?)

 

C0007/12 REVIEW C0005/12

 

REGULAR PUBLIC TRANSPORT (RPT) TWY AND APRON RESTRICTIONS DUE WIP

 

TWY H AVBL FOR ACFT MAX WINGSPAN 18.42M. ACFT WITH WINGSPAN GREATER

 

THAN 18.42M TO ACCESS RPT APRON BAYS 6-10 VIA TWY B ONTO TWY C.

 

TWY C BTN TWY H AND RPT APRON BAY 16 AVBL TO CODE A ACFT (MAX WING

 

SPAN 15M) ONLY.

 

ACFT WITH WING SPAN GREATER THAN 15M UP TO 24M TO ACCESS THE GA APRON

 

VIA BACKTRACK RWY 12/30 AND TWY K UNDER ATC CONTROL.

 

ACFT MAX WING SPAN 18.42M (J41, METRO 3) TO ACCESS RPT APRONS BAYS 16

 

AND 16B VIA BACKTRACK RWY 12/30, TWY K AND TWY C UNDER ATC CONTROL.

 

REFER MOWP YSCB 2011/08 AMEND 1 STAGE 4B.

 

FROM 01 082140 TO 03 200700 EST

 

C0015/12

 

OBST 5M AGL ON EXTD RCL 370M N RWY 17 THR

 

NO CHANGE TO DECLARED DIST.

 

REFER METHOD OF WORKING PLAN 2011/07 STAGE 2

 

FROM 01 222030 TO 03 150600 EST

 

2030-0600 MON TO SAT

 

(370 metres north of the runway centreline for Runway 17 threshold? Isn't that like, um, still on the runway or did they mean 370 metres north of the end of runway 35? Either way if you were 5 metres off the ground there you would have a LOT MORE to worry about than this)

 

C0024/12

 

ILS 'ICB' 109.5 RWY 35 NOT AVBL

 

RADIATING INTERMITTENTLY ON TEST

 

DO NOT USE FALSE INDICATIONS POSSIBLE

 

FROM 01 222100 TO 03 161000

 

(e.g. the localiser is broken for February and a good chunk of March. Go the morning fog! For the third time, we get it. Just fix the damn localiser!)

 

C0039/12

 

AIP DEP AND APCH (DAP) EAST CANBERRA EFFECTIVE 8 MAR 2012 AMD

 

DME OR GNSS ARRIVAL PAGE 3 WITH CODE SCBDG03-130 EFFECTIVE DATE TO

 

READ 8 MAR 2012

 

FROM 02 010209 TO PERM

 

(I have no idea what this means because I haven't read the new DAP)

 

C0048/12

 

TRIGGER NOTAM - AIP SUP H07/12

 

CANBERRA RNAV (RNP) RUNWAY 17/35 DEP AND APCH PROCEDURES - REVISED

 

AVBL FM AIRSERVICES WEBSITE

 

WWW.AIRSERVICESAUSTRALIA.COM/PUBLICATIONS/AIP.ASP

 

FROM 03 011600 TO 12 130200 EST

 

(We got an RNP approach?? We got an RNP approach!! Now lets see who uses it...)

 

C0049/12 REVIEW C0443/11

 

TRIGGER NOTAM - AIP SUP H82/10

 

CANBERRA RNAV (RNP) RUNWAY 17/35 REVISED PROCEDURES

 

AVBL FM AIRSERVICES WEBSITE

 

WWW.AIRSERVICESAUSTRALIA.COM/PUBLICATIONS/AIP.ASP

 

FROM 02 090657 TO 03 071600

 

(oh crap, they are horsing with the RNP approach already. This one is only for a month. Wonder if it has anything to do with the cranes?)

 

C0065/12 REVIEW C0061/12

 

AIP DEP AND APCH (DAP) EAST CANBERRA EFFECTIVE 8 MAR 2012 AMD

 

ILS-Z OR LOC-Z RWY 35 AND ILS-Y OR LOC-Y RWY 35 PLAN VIEW DIAGRAMS

 

REPLACE WLE NDB WITH WAYPOINT DALEY S35 33.7 E149 10.7

 

FROM 02 182241 TO PERM

 

(Not being an instrument pilot, I can't see how these statements are related. Does the WLE NDB still work or is it broken too? I suppose I could dig out the DAP and a map and learn something ZZZzzzZZZzzz)

 

C0076/12

 

MM 'ICB' 75 RWY 35 NOT AVBL

 

FROM 03 042300 TO 03 050500

 

(Totally retro ... Middle marker, does anyone still use these? Maybe they turned it off to see if anyone will notice)

 

C0077/12 REVIEW C0069/12

 

PILOT ACTIVATED LGT (PAL) NOT AVBL

 

AD LGT MANUALLY LEFT ON HN

 

FROM 03 010401 TO 03 160700 EST

 

(Does anything work the way it should at this "international" airport? Aren't they making enough money any more? Or have Air Services and Steven Byron collectively decided to "sweat the asset"?)

 

This is just for Canberra. Imagine if you were travelling from Sydney to Albury via Canberra, just for giggles...

 

 

[cficare]

busy work mn....makes sense to me however...