Last Updated: 3rd June 2008

NSW Sport Aircraft Club Inc.

Flying into Wedderburn

Wedderburn Airport YWBN

Runway details are published in the ERSA.
Wedderburn is a CTAF - 122.55 MHz. Take care: the CTAF boundary abuts the edge of R555.
Information affecting operations is published on our Notams Page.

Operations at YWBN

We operate to reduce the noise impact of our operations on our neighbours. The following chart shows the tracks we use to achieve this

Weather conditions at Wedderburn Airport YWBN

As you can appreciate, flying is particularly weather dependent.
The main factors which affect our operations are:-

Rain
Wind
Low cloud or fog

Rule # 1 - the weather at Wedderburn is very different to that in Sydney.
We have no reports issuing from Wedderburn.
The closest reporting station is Camden.

Online Weather Information

You can obtain up-to-date weather information online, thanks to:

Bureau of Meteorology, last 72 hours of conditions at Camden, updated hourly
(you may need to press REFRESH in your browser if a page with an old timestamp is presented).
The weather radar for the Sydney region at the Bureau of Meteorology's web site gives a good picture of the weather conditions in the Sydney Basin. If there's no heavy rainfall around Wedderburn, then there's every chance you can at least do circuits !
Atmospheric Sounding for Sydney Airport (YSSY) (useful to predict convection heights, etc), or for sites elsewhere in Australia click here