Guest Sabre Posted June 18, 2007 Posted June 18, 2007 Does anyone have the Lat and Long of Canungra International Airfield??
Case Posted June 19, 2007 Posted June 19, 2007 Hi Sabre, There is a listing for Canungra (YCGA) but I can't find any details of an air strip. The location is 28 01' 00" S, 153 10' 00" E. I can't see anything that looks like a field on Google Earth at that location. The Canungra Flying Club appears to use Kooralbyn airfield for their meetings.
Guest Sabre Posted June 19, 2007 Posted June 19, 2007 Yeh, I had the same problem but then I found some photos of it in the Flying Tigers web site and tried to identify the location from that but had no luck. Thanks if I find it I'll post it here cheers
Case Posted June 19, 2007 Posted June 19, 2007 Found it ! It's actually closer to Tamborine village than Canungra. If you use Google earth - put -27.924744, 153.116317 in the search and it will take you there. Got it by comparing the picture on the Flying Tigers site and following the creek/road and finding the sheds in the background.
Guest Sabre Posted June 19, 2007 Posted June 19, 2007 mmm..I just put that lat and long in and I went to the middle of the pacific near Japan..lol
Guest Sabre Posted June 19, 2007 Posted June 19, 2007 Ha Case .....I found it 27°55'23.41"S 153° 7'0.09"E is more like it..lol
slartibartfast Posted June 19, 2007 Posted June 19, 2007 Sabre - you left out the "-" before the 27, making it 27 degrees North - not South. The coordinates you gave are the same as Case's (very close anyway). Yours are in Degrees, Minutes, Seconds and his are decimal. Of course, you probably know this and were being funny. Just posting this for interest - I went looking for Canungra too. Ross
Guest Sabre Posted June 19, 2007 Posted June 19, 2007 Got ya..ooops my bad yeh I was being funny..lol.......but I still don't see how 27.924744, 153.116317 equates to 27°55'23.41"S 153° 7'0.09"E even though it gets me to the same spot. There is still only 60 min in an hour etc....any ideas oh crap...sorry Slartibartfast....I didn't ready your post properly...roger decimal,,,got it ..thanks mate
Guest Crezzi Posted June 19, 2007 Posted June 19, 2007 You not the first to make that mistake & you won't be the last ! At least it was only using Google Earth & not in your GPS ;-) Cheers John
Yenn Posted June 19, 2007 Posted June 19, 2007 Sabre. you were correct, even if you thought you were wrong. I ran the figures through my calcuguesser and came up with 27deg 55 min 29.075 sec. and 153 deg 6 min 58.741 seconds. I know it is not far but it is different. When using the GPS you can get greater differences than that by using the wrong map datum. WAC charts are using WGS 1984 datum and if you used WGS 1966 you could be up to 200m out.
Case Posted June 19, 2007 Posted June 19, 2007 And I've put it on the Airstrips page so we don't loose it again.
Guest Sabre Posted June 19, 2007 Posted June 19, 2007 Excellent ...now is there anyone in this forum from Canungra cause I see hangars there and I'm wondering if they were empty...lol...you never know
BigPete Posted June 20, 2007 Posted June 20, 2007 OK I'm stoopid - how do you convert from say S36 09.4 E144 45.7 to decimal?? (Remember there are no silly questions - just silly answers!) regards
slartibartfast Posted June 20, 2007 Posted June 20, 2007 Pete - everything you always wanted to know and now wish you were too afraid to ask about geographic coordinate conversion can be found here (Wikipedia) Ross
Yenn Posted June 20, 2007 Posted June 20, 2007 how do you convert from say S36 09.4 E144 45.7 to decimal?? The 36 deg does not change. the 09.4 is minutes I assume. Divide it by 60 to convert it to degrees and add that to the original degrees. ie. 9.4 / 60 = .157 added to 36 becomes 36.157 degrees.
Guest watto Posted January 25, 2010 Posted January 25, 2010 Has anyone got a contact for Canungra????? My daughter has moved to Tamborine village so very convenient..
DAVID SEE Posted June 1, 2010 Posted June 1, 2010 Canungra airstrip Hi Sabre. Just read your note on the Canungra airstrip and the hangers there, mate, I flew over there a couple of months ago and saw the extra hangers, good to see their still there. It would be 6 or 7yrs. since I was there, they have a terrific B.B.Q. setup and the hangers that were there then were all in use, so I imagine they would be full now. There was a big dead tree right in the middle of the approach path on the southern end, it was easier to do a classic 'spitfire approach' by coming in around it than rather than over it. I see you have the co. ords. there is a dam on the western side of the strip. Cheers DAVO..:thumb_up:
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