Westerly winds returning

We have started to see the return of Westerly winds for the Winter season, which brings a lot more pilots up to the mountains for a flight. this is just a friendly reminder for local pilots to help out pilots who are visiting and for visitors to please familiarise themselves with the restrictions in the site guide before attending and seek out a BMHGC SO/SSO for a site introduction before flying.

Marangaroo Airspace R520

This page is now out of date. Please see the updated post regarding this airspace.

A couple of people asked me about airspace over Marangaroo, so this is a long overdue post and I needed to look up the details again myself.

Marangaroo is an army training area, so you shouldn’t fly over the base. Beyond this there is airspace as protection from the demolitions firing range. This is a restricted area so stay out.

Details are:

• Name: R520

• Status: Conditional Status RA3: Pilots must not flight plan through the Restricted Area and clearances will not be available.

• LATERAL LIMITS: A circle of 1.5 NM radius centred on 33,25,39.4S 150,09,22.9E

• Heights: SFC - 8500 feet

• Time Limits: Week days excluding public holidays 7:30AM-4PM or as amended by NOTAM

You can see the area on the XContest maps as area R520. You can check the NOTAM for R520. You want to see...

" 

THE FOLLOWING REQUESTED LOCATIONS HAVE NO CURRENT NOTAM: 

R520 MARRANGAROO (R520)

"

Info from:Aeronautical Information Package (AIP), En Route Supplement Australia (ERSA), Effective 03-Mar-2016.

 

Alex