Storm Season

[Craig]

Yup, its that time of the year in my area , Had a good one last night, so i grabbed the camera and got some movies











http://youtube.com/watch?v=rMtzBwpmtCE

[brownbox]

awww, youre so lucky! Unfortunately, where I am located, all the thunderstorms, high winds, floods etc just go right past us, around the hills, and doesnt really get to us at all Dad says hes glad theres no floods at our place, but I think its boring

[JonARNZ]

Wow CC, where do you live?

[bardos]

awww, youre so lucky! Unfortunately, where I am located, all the thunderstorms, high winds, floods etc just go right past us, around the hills, and doesnt really get to us at all     Dad says hes glad theres no floods at our place, but I think its boring 

You love those weathers? At my office I've allways the heli-webcam from our hospital running in the background of my screen. Last week we had a heavy storm in NW-Europe; about 17 people killed......

This one that morning, bad weather has started, our last rescueflight that day.



A few hours later: rain & storm (>120km/h)


I will not tell you about the damage to my house
I love white beaches.......

Bardos

[Craig]

Wow CC, where do you live?

Hunter Valley, N.S.W.

Bout 1hr north west of New castle

[Zöltuger]

Auckland hasn't had a decent hurricane in yonks.

[ardypilot]

We had sweet weather in the Gold Coast for our whole stay, untill the afternoon we flew out (Thursday 25th) when the clouds rolled up and dropped their rain- which sucked for timing as I couldn't get any decent departure photographs out of OOL.

We didn't get any lightning, but here are a few shots taken from the very top of NSW (not sure if they will interest you or not Craig lol):

1. Cloudy Byron Bay

2. Pouring with rain outside Coolangatta airport

3. Jets on the apron

4. Our ride on the damp ramp (heh, that rhymes)

5. Turning for runway 32

6. 10,000 feet

7. 13,000 feet

8. 20,000 feet (my mates dad had a altimeter on his watch)

[Craig]

1. Cloudy Byron Bay

Last time i was in byron, this was the weather

[ardypilot]

Looks like fun Craig, I picked up a leaflet from the airport about skydiving there, and would have loved to go for a jump but I ran out of time and money.

[HardCorePawn]

8. 20,000 feet (my mates dad had a altimeter on his watch)

I wonder how accurate that was... you would think that with the cabin pressured to around 8000 ft that an altimeter in a watch would be all out of whack...

I am surprised it read anything other than 8000ft...

or is it some fancy pants one that does GPS signal triangulation and some basic geometry (which i forgot about 2 seconds after finishing my final exam) to calculate the height??

also, do you know what sort of watch it was?

[ardypilot]

I wonder how accurate that was... you would think that with the cabin pressured to around 8000 ft that an altimeter in a watch would be all out of whack...

It was a fancy Tissot one with a touch screen- the altitude is given in feet (I had to convert it).

[brownbox]

It was a fancy Tissot one with a touch screen

Wonder how much that would have cost!

[ardypilot]

Wonder how much that would have cost!

Retails for $1800 (au) plus...

[Ian Warren]

Goodie Craig , be in Wagga 5/6weeks , love that town , Albury then to Avalon for some real RnR

[Ian Warren]

Airshow time !