Weekend Flying Weather

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Weekend Flying Weather

Postby Henni » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:18 am

To all the weather experts,

In your opinion, should we have flyable weather once again by this weekend?

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Postby Bennie Vorster » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:23 am

:roll:

Forecast: Wednesday, 6 June 2007

Min: 8°C
Max: 16°C

Weather: Cloudy at times with a 60% chance of thunderstorms

Wind: moderate south-westerly
Sunrise: 06:48
Sunset: 17:23
Moonphase: Last Quarter
Moonrise: 22:30
Moonset: 11:10

Reported Weather

Wednesday, 6 June 2007 10:00 SAST
Temperature 10.8 °C
Dew Point: 9.8 °C
Humidity: 93 %

Wind: NE, 4.0 km/h
(2 Kts)

Pressure (QNH): 1014 hPa








Forecast: Thursday, 7 June 2007

Min: 5°C Max: 17°C
Weather: Fine.
Wind: light south-westerly
Sunrise: 06:48 Sunset: 17:23
Moonrise: 23:32 Moonset: 11:46
Moonphase: Last Quarter




Forecast: Friday, 8 June 2007

Min: 4°C Max: 18°C
Weather: Partly cloudy.
Wind: light westerly
Sunrise: 06:49 Sunset: 17:23
Moonrise: xxxx Moonset: 12:20
Moonphase: Last Quarter




Forecast: Saturday, 9 June 2007

Min: 3°C Max: 21°C
Weather: Fine.
Wind: moderate north-westerly
Sunrise: 06:49 Sunset: 17:23
Moonrise: 00:32 Moonset: 12:54
Moonphase: Waning




Forecast: Sunday, 10 June 2007

Min: 5°C Max: 21°C
Weather: Fine.
Wind: moderate north-westerly
Sunrise: 06:49 Sunset: 17:23
Moonrise: 01:34 Moonset: 13:29
Moonphase: Waning




Forecast: Monday, 11 June 2007

Min: 4°C Max: 17°C
Weather: Fine.
Wind: light south-westerly
Sunrise: 06:50 Sunset: 17:23
Moonrise: 02:37 Moonset: 14:06
Moonphase: Waning




Forecast: Tuesday, 12 June 2007

Min: 3°C Max: 19°C
Weather: Fine.
Wind: light north-westerly
Sunrise: 06:50 Sunset: 17:23
Moonrise: 03:45 Moonset: 14:49
Moonphase: Waning

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Postby Henni » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:33 am

Thanx Bennie - I know what I will be doing this weekend! Been a while since I've seen many microlight aeries in the Microland/Bapsfontein skies.

Been plenty of bliks flying around lately, especially the previous Saturday.

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Postby Hot Stuff » Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:11 pm

Bennie my friend where on earth did you find this infomation, do share it with us
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Postby Bennie Vorster » Wed Jun 06, 2007 12:24 pm

http://www.weathersa.co.za/LoginServlet ... 1236455768

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Just regesture and log in for the seven days for cast. Els you will only see a day or two in advanse. :wink:
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Postby Hot Stuff » Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:14 pm

Thanks Bennie, hows the trike doing?
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Postby andreb » Wed Jun 06, 2007 6:53 pm

Henni
There is a group of flying out of Microland every Saturday morning early and most Sunday as well (especially afternoons). We are Ray, Massimo, Marius, Greg, Roy and Andre. Some other regular flyers are Henk, Cobra, Tjoek, Pieter (soon), Joe, Lionel, etc. Then there are some otehrs whom I do not know.
If you ever want to join us, them pm Massimo, DieselFan or myself.
If you have any exciting new destinations, then let us know. Bronkies dam is getting tiring....
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Postby Henni » Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:38 pm

Hi Andre,

Thank you for the invitation. I'm also an early flier on the weekends, mostly every weekend, so I'll call you guys on the radio this weekend.

Regards,

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Postby The Agent » Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:19 am

Hi Henni waneer kom jy op Rhino kuier??????????


About the weather like some weather men they sucked all the info out of the thumb. :wink:
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Postby AV8 » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:23 am

I find this site pretty good as well.

http://www.accuweather.com/world-index- ... HANNESBURG
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Postby Henni » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:30 am

Hi Agent,

Binnekort! Miskien nog sommer hierdie naweek. Ek het so 'n ruk terug met die MXII soontoe gevlieg, maar die wind het gewaai en toe ek naby julle koppie kom het ek liewers omgedraai omdat my brandstof reeds laag was.

Die Mizer is 'n ander storie - hou 50 liter en vlieg 70 mph, so nou kan ek dit veilig doen.

Groete,

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Postby Arnulf » Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:15 am

andreb wrote:
Bronkies dam is getting tiring....
True, and I could imagine that the residents at Bronkies dam have a similar feeling about microlighters........ :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby Aerosan » Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:20 am

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:23 am Post subject:

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Forecast: Friday, 8 June 2007

Min: 4°C Max: 18°C
Weather: Partly cloudy.
Wind: light westerly
Sunrise: 06:49 Sunset: 17:23
Moonrise: x Moonset: 12:20
Moonphase: Last Quarter

LIGHT WESTERLY MY G@T I turned onto rwy 31 at Bara and started rolling. Next minute Im indicating 60 mph and on the GPS 12 mph :shock: climbing like a homesick angel. Next minute indicated 45 mph and GPS about 30mph :? It was one of the more eventfull take off`s in my life :!: :!: proved that if the plane doesnt know the wind is howling all will be ok :twisted: :twisted: landing was on par with the take-off :shock: :) to me it felt like I was flapping the wings all the way down. Not a bad days flying but not relaxing for sure. Just goes to show you can never trust the weather buro :twisted: :twisted: :wink:
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Postby Dre'man » Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:52 pm

Try this site, they do an extended forecast as well and have been pretty accurate with regard to wind speeds etc.

http://www.1stweather.com/metrocast/joh ... ndex.shtml
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Postby DieselFan » Sun Jun 10, 2007 8:02 pm

Aerosan wrote:Just goes to show you can never trust the weather buro :twisted: :twisted: :wink:
The SA one... :roll:

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