Wombat

Hi guys,

Thanks for your replies, I feel so welcome to this board. I am glad I have found this website and I will continue to visit it as often as possible. (hold on I work in IT, I could visit daily!)

Cheers

Ty

its interesting seeing the totals on each websites Online petitions.

Save Essendon Airport - 610 signatures

Close Essendon Airport - 140 signatures

Funny thing is that with the "Save Essendon Airport" you can read each signature, but with the "Close Essendon Airport" you cant. So with the Close Essendon Airport it could be the same person signing many times!!!

Hi guys,

I got this email from SEAG last nite...

HelloThis is just a quick email to say we are currently planning to hold a

 

meeting at Essendon Airport on Friday, October 17 (afternoon). This date is

 

still in planning we are just trying to get another people to attend.

 

Peter Ryan leader of the Nationals will be in attendance. I am just

 

wondering if you would be interested in attending at this time? Please note

 

this is not a confirmation of the date we are just gauging interest before

 

finalizing dates and times. You will receive a follow up email with all the

 

final information as long as you have contacted us to confirm interest.

 

Essendon Airport Corporation have kindly given us access to the terminal

 

and seating to host this information meeting. Peter Ryan will be able to

 

answer questions in relation to Essendon airport and will also discuss what

 

the Nationals are doing to keep Essendon open.

 

Due to Peter Ryan attending we can only organize this meeting in the

 

afternoon on a weekday.

 

New site updates:

 

* TV News report now available for download from the website.

 

* Automatic mailing list nearly completed.

 

Regards,

 

Lincoln Robinson

 

** You are receiving this email because you provided your email address on

 

the Save Essendon petition, if you would like to be removed from future

 

notifications please email us and let us know. Once our automatic system is

 

up and running you can add and remove yourself automatically.

Cheers

Ty

Hi everyone,

I found this website from www.saveessendonairport.com.au link down the bottom of their page..

I am just a YMML spotter/photographer and have an interest in commercial aviation.

I have been to several airshows at YMAV and YMPC over the years.

If I had the money I would love to get a PPL. I have visited the B738 sim in the city but I havent flown in it yet. (costs so much!!):eek:

This seems like to be a great website, I will visit it often!

Cheers

Wombat

(real name is Ty)

:biggrin:

Folks,Great thread. I have been using Oziexplorer with both Natmaps and VTC's for over a year now. This software is worth every cent of the $120 odd that I paid for. Maptrax in Cairns emails you fresh VTC's for $5 per map - absolute bargain!

 

I however went for a different option for flight. I size, print and laminate my route plan onto pages that slip into my knee board for easy reference - whatever the power system is doing. This takes care of map reading.

 

I also used to drop the route plan onto my Garmin II+ and follow the needle. Now having secured a Lowrance Airmap 600C with terrein avoidance from Oshkosh - this only set me back about $600. I drop the route onto the SD Card for the GPS and have an aviation moving map that is quite legible that is splashproof (I am a triker where we get the elements in the cockpit). This works pretty well.

 

Next I would like to replace the kneeboard with a tablet notebook such as a miniaturised Panasonic Toughbook - however this seems to be way too costly...

 

Hope this helps.

Do you use the MapTrax VTC loaded on your 600c? I've tried loading a scanned WAC map from OziExlorer (Trial) to my card but the 600c won't read the file to allow me to load it. I am going to purchase CD Maps and OziExplorer for planning but would prefer to have an Airservices map on the screen rather than the 600c World Map.