01-12-2011, 07:24 PM
Anyone with news? Should be recovering and nearly time for the Precision Mowing Team (fingers crossed).
(02-12-2011, 02:20 PM)yarrumevets Wrote: Firstly the good news - the field will support Oz Day training, if that's what everyone would like to do. Parking vehicles over in the helicopter practice zone (sorry gents) and flying in the regular carpark as per last year's routine would be fine.
The bad news - there remains standing water on parts of the runway and it's still way too wet to mow at the moment.
The terrible news - bikers have chopped the runway to shreds! I kid you not, when I say that for 75% of the total runway length and width, you'd be hard-pressed to mark out one square metre which wouldn't have deep tyre marks in it. The only area to escape attention was eastern end of the strip, for about a quarter of its length - the rest of it is ruined. I didn't take a photograph because my 'phone was at home on the charger, but I'm sorry to say that I'm not exaggerating - it's going to take a long while to recover from this hiding.