View from my apartment yesterday
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No such thing, while its a tad shorter than 07/25, its capable of handling up to A380s as far as length and RFF facilities go with over 2.4km of LDA.
Not quite. It's not listed as available to us. 16L has an LDA of 2200 metres, whilst 34R is 2400 m. A look at the performance application shows that 16L has a bare 80 metres spare, in calm conditions, and is immediately too short with even one knot of downwind. I considered it too short for the 767, so I'm not likely to throw a 380 at it.
Well. Finally back to Brisbane 30 hrs after leaving SFO. We sat on Tarmac for 3 hrs in MEL and they got a new air crew since others had run out of hrs, then by 10 am the cabin staff also had run up their max 20 hrs so they could not fly us up to SYD. So three and a bit hrs after landing in MEL we were disembarked.
Several psg were getting a quite annoyed but in reality in such situations what can one actually do but just wait.
Can someone explain why a 'modern' international airport such as Sydney international and the most significant in the country can't land planes in fog? Safety yes but in Europe they would never get away with it. Also in Europe it would cost the airlines a fortune under EU rules for delay and missed connections.
It was foggy this morning so there were a few diversions to Melbourne.
Looking outside now, lots of fog has rolled it and it's only 9pm. Does that mean delays may be worse tomorrow?
It was foggy this morning so there were a few diversions to Melbourne.
Looking outside now, lots of fog has rolled it and it's only 9pm. Does that mean delays may be worse tomorrow?
09:21 UTC, 10/06/2013 TAF AMD YSSY 100921Z 1009/1112 29008KT CAVOK FM110000 36010KT 9999 FEW045 PROB30 1012/1016 4000 BR PROB30 1016/1023 0500 FG RMK T 16 14 12 11 Q 1019 1019 1018 1017 | |
11:03 UTC, 10/06/2013 TTF METAR YSSY 101100Z 34006KT CAVOK 14/13 Q1019 RMK RF00.0/000.6 FM1200 29008KT 4000 BR |
Aircraft are still landing ... QF774 just landed.
The ATIS is giving 4000 meters BR (mist). That's no issue.
What do you think about first departures? I assume they'd be ok if the aircraft make it to SYD tonight.
Is SYD now a cat II airport? At 500m vis, if I remember correctly, it's just beyond the limits of cat I.