Peter Creswick wrote:
We paid for every cent of the infrastructure, ie, all the super
computers and all of the other BoM infrastructure, and the scientists
that produce the global models from which all those forecasts etc are
produced. Billions in investment, and millions in ongoing costs,
So the notion is either:
a. Get a suitable national body to fund BoM to produce
thermal forecast for all of Aust.
b. Failing that, ask SAGA to bump up the annual fees by $2
per person and get the SA maps made available to SA pilots.
Sounds too simple to me, wheres the catch? (Ah, yes - a
whole
Anthony Smith wrote:
Sounds too simple to me, wheres the catch? (Ah, yes - a
whole lot of people objecting to raisng GFA / SAGA fees to
cover the cost?)
Haven't see any around here yet.
- mark
I tried an internal modem,
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Anthony Smith wrote:
Sounds too simple to me
Dave wrote:
Now you have Mark. I most certainly would object to SAGA who deliver NOTHING
for the money they already get raising any fee's, doubly so in the light of
their unilateral decision (without any consultation with members) to make
FLARM mandatory at SAGA events which will have a
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:11:50 +1000, Robert Hart wrote:
DDSC uses the Linux firewall/server to run an intranet web server
(and
mail server etc). I am currently writing scripts to acquire and load
on
to the web server wx data from BoM and elsewhere so that we have that
immediately
Emilis Prelgauskas wrote:
I seem to recall $3k/$1.5k/ann were the figures for that contest area,
which encompasses much of South Australia used by glider pilots.
It works out to about $2 p.a. for each South Australian GFA member.
I spoke to Peter some more while we were upstairs; All the
Is all this data avialable for the rest of Australia or was
it just set up for the Worlds and cover only SA?
Emilis Prelgauskas wrote:
I seem to recall $3k/$1.5k/ann were the figures for that
contest area, which encompasses much of South Australia
used by glider pilots.
It works out
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Emilis Prelgauskas wrote:
I seem to recall $3k/$1.5k/ann were the figures for that contest area,
which encompasses much of South Australia used
Anthony Smith wrote:
Is all this data avialable for the rest of Australia or was
it just set up for the Worlds and cover only SA?
Just SA at the moment. But it's calculated out of a global climate
model, and can theoretically be produced for any region.
- mark
Peter Creswick wrote:
You must be kidding !
Unfortunately, you are not.
That sounds like standard public service thinking now doesn't it,
I think you're oversimplifying a bit.
The BoM gets tens of millions of dollars per annum from the aviation
industry. Qantas and Virgin Blue basically
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Peter Creswick wrote:
You must be kidding !
Unfortunately, you are not.
That sounds like standard public service thinking now doesn't it,
I think you're oversimplifying a bit.
The BoM gets tens
Emilis,
Can you please contact me on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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