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Ando

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  1. 14 minutes ago, johnm said:

    I can remember flying to an airport about 200 miles away and about 30 miles out I heard a Qlink flight saying the met condition was CAVOK

     

    I didn't like the sound of CAVOK so diverted about 60 miles and sat there for 30 minutes then proceeded to intended destination - it was good flying weather ! ............................... (a little bit of paranoia can go a long way !)

     

    I know what CAVOK means - should i happen to hear it again

    Don’t get Paranoid….. that will get you in trouble 

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  2. 1 hour ago, Bosi72 said:

    It is not that hard to learn MET acronyms, only patience and some practice is needed. The more you check the weather, the more you know..

     

    To understand GAF, check this video 

     

     

    To decode TAF, you can tap in your EFB and it will decode for you (the screenshot below is from AvPlan)

     

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    Finally, if you come across the "tricky" TAF/GAF feel free to post it, I am sure everyone would help.

     

     

     

     

    Still pretty chilly there then

  3. 2 hours ago, RossK said:

    Thanks Thexder for the update, it's very rare that we actually get eye witness accounts.

    I had wondered how he got where he was, from the photos and google maps it looks like he was off the east side of the strip only half way down, ie there was plenty of runway left to land on.

    Good news is the pilot is OK, actually that's great news.

    We've all made mistakes and this is one of those swiss chees ones, where if you make enough mistakes, they line up and bite you in the end.

    I've got a nice bit of video footage of a take off I did in the Sportstar with a 45 deg 25kt cross wind from the left. The plane just wanted to turn left despite full right rudder, it was a poor choice of runway in hindsight as I could have chosen the other cross runway with 45 deg crosswind from the right.

    But I managed to make some good decisions during the take off roll and got us airborne - but a better decision would have been to abort and have another think about it.

    There are alwys things we can learn from and do better next time.

    Hopefully this pilot learns from this and does better next time.

    I wonder Ross if you could post that video. Would like to see that being a low wing aircraft. Cheers Andy

  4. 8 hours ago, Hongie said:

    The youtuber, as far as i can tell, has simply made it up, in an effort to garner views... there is no adsb data available for todays flight from what I can tell. The last adsb data available for WMM (that i can find) is from the 17/10. In saying that, its possible, although i'm not sure if it is the done thing, that the ATSB has contacted the many adsb sites and requested the data to be purged after the fact.

     

    Regardless, it's very poor form of the youtuber to put out a simulation on the day of this happening!

    Exactly what I thought 

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