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[jb747]

Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 - Wikipedia

Note the year.

 

[AviatorInsight]

Braking would not have been good. It was wet enough to be borderline 'contaminated'.

Then that definitely changes things. Also, if the LDA was under 5000, then that is insane to be attempting that. My calculations showed an excess of about 150m (at 60T which is actually 1.5T above MLW for the ease of the calcs) with good braking action. A quick recalculation with actual Burbank figures and medium action, with max manual braking shows LDR of 2480m/8136ft!

 

[Himeno]

Ah, Southwest at Burbank last week. Well, it was certainly heavy rain. Very heavy.

I don't have charts for Burbank, but I don't think the LDA is the full 5,800'. A comment on prune had it at under 5,000. It's common for the landing or take off distance to be less than the full length of the runway.

In any event, a 10 knot tailwind to a wet and short runway isn't something I would even have had a look at.

It's called 'press-on-itis' or 'get-home-itis'.

 

[FrustratedQP]

I saw a picture yesterday of luggage out in the rain waiting to be loaded into a 737. Obviously wet luggage weighs more than dry luggage. How do you factor in the difference in weight when determining weight and balance figures?

 

[jb747]

I saw a picture yesterday of luggage out in the rain waiting to be loaded into a 737. Obviously wet luggage weighs more than dry luggage. How do you factor in the difference in weight when determining weight and balance figures?

You don't. But wet weather ops use inherently conservative performance numbers, to allow for things like the weight of water on the aircraft, water being pushed in front of the tyres, etc. There'd be far more weight in excess carry on, than on the bags.....

 

[AviatorInsight]

Inside the wheel well of the 737. Was the cleanest one I’ve seen in a while.

 

[Flashback]

Just taxing around LHR and there's red signs on the side of the runways with titles like COBRA and DINGO. What do they mean/are They there for? They're next to the yellow ones.

 

[jb747]

Just taxing around LHR and there's red signs on the side of the runways with titles like COBRA and DINGO. What do they mean/are They there for? They're next to the yellow ones.

Presumably you were flying on BA. They're all taxiway holding points. COBRA and DINGO are on the northern side of the terminal 5 aprons. I'm more familiar with the ones from pier 6 along A & B (LOKKI and LOMAN and SATUN). ATC will give you a taxi clearance to one of those points (i.e. leaving gate 301 "clear to taxi on B, hold at LOKKI").

 

[Flashback]

Presumably you were flying on BA. They're all taxiway holding points. COBRA and DINGO are on the northern side of the terminal 5 aprons. I'm more familiar with the ones from pier 6 along A & B (LOKKI and LOMAN and SATUN). ATC will give you a taxi clearance to one of those points (i.e. leaving gate 301 "clear to taxi on B, hold at LOKKI").

Nice one, thanks!

 

[flyer89]

They're all taxiway holding points. COBRA and DINGO are on the northern side of the terminal 5 aprons. I'm more familiar with the ones from pier 6 along A & B (LOKKI and LOMAN and SATUN). ATC will give you a taxi clearance to one of those points (i.e. leaving gate 301 "clear to taxi on B, hold at LOKKI").

With deicing points VADER and JEDI from memory last time I looked at the charts?

 

[AviatorInsight]

Presumably you were flying on BA. They're all taxiway holding points. COBRA and DINGO are on the northern side of the terminal 5 aprons. I'm more familiar with the ones from pier 6 along A & B (LOKKI and LOMAN and SATUN). ATC will give you a taxi clearance to one of those points (i.e. leaving gate 301 "clear to taxi on B, hold at LOKKI").

That's something different, I like it!

 

[jb747]

It’s a change from the normal computer generated names. There was a route in WA that had a bunch of F1 drivers names. And Brisbane, with LEAKY, BOATS, SINK.

 

[Captain Halliday]

It’s a change from the normal computer generated names. There was a route in WA that had a bunch of F1 drivers names. And Brisbane, with LEAKY, BOATS, SINK.

Are they holding points at BNE or waypoint in the airspace?

 

[jb747]

Are they holding points at BNE or waypoint in the airspace?

I haven't been to Brisbane for a long time (2004!), but they were waypoints on the STARS.

 

[AviatorInsight]

It’s a change from the normal computer generated names. There was a route in WA that had a bunch of F1 drivers names. And Brisbane, with LEAKY, BOATS, SINK.

To add to the SINNK arrival is DRAIN and PLUGG.

There's a stack of these around Australia, as an SO doing the plotting chart you got good at finding lots of these.

There's a line along the YMMM/YBBB FIR that says PUTYA SWEED LIPPS TOUDA PHONE (they actually got rid of the waypoints ALLIL and CLOSA for some reason, I can't find them anymore)

Then there's the first verse (almost) of Waltzing Matilda off the WA coast running North to South. WONSA JOLLY SWAGY CAMBS BUIYA BYLLA BONGS UNDER ACOOL EBARR TREES.

Just west of TSV is ITORT EYSAW APUSS ECATT.

 

[AviatorInsight]

Are they holding points at BNE or waypoint in the airspace?

They're just waypoints as part of the STAR. SMOKA, SAVER and CG are standard holding points into BNE.

 

[stm1sydney]

View attachment 146627 Are holding patterns flown by the autopilot?
I ask because the “racetrack” pattern seem to overly the previous very accurately...

Here's a beautiful holding pattern I captured a couple of months ago (VA BNE/SYD).

 

[jb747]

Here's a beautiful holding pattern I captured a couple of months ago (VA BNE/SYD).

There is no such thing as a beautiful holding pattern. They cost a fortune, and waste vast amounts of fuel and time.

 

[jb747]

Last roster just published.

The trips I have left to do...
QF35 MEL-SIN 30/12
QF36 SIN-MEL 31/12

QF35 MEL-SIN 5/1
QF36 SIN-MEL 6/1

QF35 MEL-SIN 13/1
QF36 SIN-MEL 14/1

QF1 SYD-SIN 20/1
QF1 SIN-LHR 21/1
QF2 LHR-SIN 24/1
QF36 SIN-MEL 27/1

 

[Himeno]

QF36 SIN-MEL 31/12

Do you do anything special around 3 hours in?