The airspace boundaries for the Sydney basin have been released. The Western Sydney International Airport (WSIA) is a dominant part of the airspace near Sydney. The good news for gliding at Camden is that the gliding airspace has turned out better than was originally expected. Although the airspace to the northwest, west and southwest of Camden airport has been reduced, this reduction will still allow gliding activities.
The areas to the southwest with C LL 5500 and 4500 respectively were formerly 7500. The area directly west was 7500 and is now 2500. If you want to see this part of the world before it is gone, organise a flight via gliding.com.au, sydneygliding.com.au or Sydney Motor Glider Flight Group on 0439 353 966.
This screenshot from the draft VTC (above) shows the boundaries. The draft VTC is available from the
engage.airservicesaustralia.com
2021 OCCURENCE MANUAL COMPLETED
When SOAR reports are completed they are moved to the Occurrence Summaries. The 2021 version has been completed. It is available from the glidingaustralia.org website in the Operations area.
Training Manual Revision 2.4 is Close to Release
The next version of the GAus Training manual is close to release. It is currently with CASA as part of the review cycle. I foresee it being release early August. This revision fixes several errors and aligns further with our Part 149 status. The manual will be announced via an email to GAus members and will be available via the glidingaustralia.org website documents area.
GAus Document Control and Review Process
The GAus Document Control and Review Process manual has been released. The manual is available from the lidingaustralia.org website in the Administration documents section. The manual outlines the standards and processes for naming of documents and the process for review of documents. It specifies the tools used for document production and review.
One area of immediate improvement is the use of change bars. Updates to manuals will highlight changed areas as shown in this diagram. Readers can now look through a manual and find the areas that have changed. Double bars denote the changed area.
The review process now focuses on content change. Previously Word versions of documents would be circulated. Unintended consequences where corruption of document preferences and the reviewer’s own views on spelling and grammar took precedent to “content”. This lead to a lot of wasted time by the document owners. Documents for review are locked in the future so that Comments are the only modification possible.
