The areas marked in orange
relate to the Oakey Restricted Military Airspace.
Within each area will be found two or more restricted training area
designations (e.g. R643B) each followed by two numbers (or one number and SFC) separated
by a line which indicates the highest band (above surface level) that the particular
training area occupies.
The two purple lines radiating out from Jondaryan township mark the
Eastern boundary of Area Glider South Alpha which extends to the West out to the 23 DME
radial.
This area is clearly within restricted Oakey Military airspace, but on
request is routinely released to DDSC for gliding operations. But with an important
limitation - only areas R643A, R643B and R643C are released. This imposes a height
restriction of 6,500ft AGL, or 7,700 ft AMSL. Allowing for separation levels, we are
therefore restricted to a max height of 7,000 QNH within Area South Alpha (unless R655 is
released on special application. |