NTL currently closed?

[Kent Broadhead]

I notice a QF BNE-NTL 717 has diverted to Sydney, a Q400 on the same route has now done multiple circuits and an Alliance F100 operating BNE-NTL operating for VA looks as though its a bout to divert.

I can't quite interpret the METAR YWLM 040000Z 28009KT 9999 BKN006 SCT033 14/14 Q1013

Is the issue wind or flooding?

[Stephen Brown]

I don't think it would be weather, probably flooding.

[Kent Broadhead]

Looks like the F100 has landed, Q400 still doing circuits north of the airfield.

[Greg Hyde]

My Guess flooding based on the amount of rain that NTL/Hunter Valley has had over the last couple of days

[Kent Broadhead]

Q400 now on short finals by the look of things, after at leat half a dozen circuits.

[MarkR]

I notice a QF BNE-NTL 717 has diverted to Sydney, a Q400 on the same route has now done multiple circuits and an Alliance F100 operating BNE-NTL operating for VA looks as though its a bout to divert.

I can't quite interpret the METAR YWLM 040000Z 28009KT 9999 BKN006 SCT033 14/14 Q1013

Is the issue wind or flooding?

You will find this handy http://www.bom.gov.au/aviation/data/education/metar-speci.pdf

That METAR is quite benign, wind 9kts, bkn cloud at 600ft would be the concern with aircraft struggling to get visual at the minima, flooding would not appear on a metar other than with a remark.

There is runway works in progress with displace thresholds reducing available IFR approaches.

Notams indicate taxiway flooding only on the northwest side.

Q) YBBB/QMXLC/IV/M /A /000/999/3248S15150E
A) YWLM
B) 22/07/05 00:09 C) 22/07/08 02:00
E) TWY A3, TWY A4 AND TWY A5 NOT AVBL DUE FLOODING

[Kent Broadhead]

Thanks Mark. The wind was howling in Sydney at the time, and the 717 diversion suggested a larger issue.