Airspace charts now available free to download

The airspace charts from Airservices are now available to download free in pdf format. The relevant maps for out flying sites are the Sydney and Newcastle VNCs and the Sydney VTC.

http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/aip/aip.asp

direct link

Note the radio areas around the non-towered aerodromes are not shown, but you can easily find the aerodromes at Bathurst, Mudgee and Orange.

Edit May 2018: updated the link, slso if the page moves I found it under: Publications>Aeronautical Information Products (AIP)>AIP Charts (24 MAY 2018). There is also a copyright agreement you need to click.

Updated the weather links

I fixed and updated some of the weather links that were broken.

• The Windity link now goes straight to the map and airgram for Blackheath.
• For the blipmap, use Camden (current day) or NSW 24 and 48h forecasts.

Some handy tips:

• Windity has a handy precipitation forecast in the airgram.
• Blipmap can show you when the thermals are likely to start by looking at the height of critical updraft strength and the cloudbase potential plots.