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Dublin was madness yesterday. The United ended up going back to the gate as the crew timed out. Must have been on the tarmac about 2 hours in the end waiting for the winds to drop. They had one attempted take off but rejected before they even got to 20kts due to winds being >40kts. Finally got back to the gate but there was no ground crew so they waited even longer.
gotoPzero said:
Dublin was madness yesterday. The United ended up going back to the gate as the crew timed out. Must have been on the tarmac about 2 hours in the end waiting for the winds to drop. They had one attempted take off but rejected before they even got to 20kts due to winds being >40kts. Finally got back to the gate but there was no ground crew so they waited even longer.
I've now added to my geeky and installed LiveATC and Dublin is on it - watching the live stream and listening in is a game changer.bhstewie said:
Just watching a BA flight from Haneda coming into LHR on Big Jet TV.
I thought it would have flown west from Japan as that's the route the flight took when I went there but it looks like it's flown some sort of "great circle" type route east from Japan?
It's literally 50% around the world so I imagine weather forecasts would play a major factor with wind patterns. Also I seem to have noticed that some airlines are needing to traverse the West to East route - ie no flying over Russia etc (which Emirates can). I thought it would have flown west from Japan as that's the route the flight took when I went there but it looks like it's flown some sort of "great circle" type route east from Japan?
zsdom said:
It’s to do with the curvature of the earth, it’s actually shorter to fly an arc rather than as the crow flies
Any sensible crow would fly the shortest route between two points - the reason this may appear curved when plotted on a map - the Great Circle route - is down to the projection system used for that particular map.Gassing Station | Boats, Planes & Trains | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff