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Last updated: Fri 04 Nov 2011 9:57 PM |
NSW Sport Aircraft Club Inc.
Flying into Wedderburn
Wedderburn Airport YWBN
Runway details are published in the ERSA. (Correct for 10th March 2011. – Make sure you use the latest update from Airservices Australia website!).
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, (yellow hatched areas).
The following chart shows the tracks we use to achieve this
Click on the above image for a larger view
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 !
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- Atmospheric Sounding for
Sydney Airport (YSSY) (useful to predict convection heights, etc), or for sites elsewhere in Australia
click here