Dubai taxiway conditions considered "damp"

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hidetheelephants said:

Dingu said:

Hereward said:

Interesting, thanks. I have just been reading up on the plans for Dubai World Central. Amazing what can be achieved with minimal red tape and endless cheap labour. Makes you realise how stagnant things are in Western Europe.

Regarding freak weather events I always chuckle when I see all the redundant snow clearing equipment parked up at LHR and LGW. IIRC they were panic buys after a bit of snow more than 10 years ago and largely unused since.

Edited by Hereward on Thursday 18th April 20:18

I’ll take stagnant over anything like Dubai thanks. Awful place.

Yes, cheerleading stone age theocracy that cheerfully employs slave labour is a low even by PH standards.

Dubai infrastructure is not geared up for heavy rain , this flash flood caught a lot of people out and certainly the average person has never driven in a flood , there is going to be an awful lot of hydro locked cars

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LHRFlightman said:

Hereward said:

ecs said:

Hereward said:

FourWheelDrift said:

It'll get back to normal quickly, they'll get their slaves onto it and mop it all up.

I wonder if they will retrofit storm drains around the airport and other key bits of infrastructure to prevent such scenes again? As you say they have infinite slave labour for such jobs.

Dubai Airport is effectively EOL at this point, it'll be replaced by Al Maktoum in the coming years.

When it rains here, it's a bit like when it snows in the UK - the whole place descends into chaos for a few days and then everything goes back to normal again. This was pretty bad because it was a 1 in 75yr storm; we had a bad storm around a month ago too, that went on for longer but I think less rain fell because it caused less damage.

Interesting, thanks. I have just been reading up on the plans for Dubai World Central. Amazing what can be achieved with minimal red tape and endless cheap labour. Makes you realise how stagnant things are in Western Europe.

Regarding freak weather events I always chuckle when I see all the redundant snow clearing equipment parked up at LHR and LGW. IIRC they were panic buys after a bit of snow more than 10 years ago and largely unused since.

Edited by Hereward on Thursday 18th April 20:18

Your recollection is wrong.

The snow equipment at LHR was bought in the back of the Begg report, circa 13 years ago.

The equipment, hardly redundant, has been used numerous times since then and is exercised several times each winter, snow or no snow, when the airport team undertakes snow drills.

I'm not sure what the score is at LHR, but I imagine it's the same as at BHX where some of the "snow equipment" is actually cold weather equipment. For example, there are de-icing trucks that spray a chemical treatment onto the runway and taxiways using large booms similar to what farmers use for spraying crops. The chemical spray prevents ice from forming when a frost is expected, or there's light snowfall.

It's essentially the aviation equivalent of gritting trucks, however the reason a spray is used and not salt is that you really do not want jet engines ingesting small stones ...

As such, the equipment gets used multiple times each winter, regardless of how much snowmageddon we get.

[Hereward]

LHRFlightman said:

Hereward said:

ecs said:

Hereward said:

FourWheelDrift said:

It'll get back to normal quickly, they'll get their slaves onto it and mop it all up.

I wonder if they will retrofit storm drains around the airport and other key bits of infrastructure to prevent such scenes again? As you say they have infinite slave labour for such jobs.

Dubai Airport is effectively EOL at this point, it'll be replaced by Al Maktoum in the coming years.

When it rains here, it's a bit like when it snows in the UK - the whole place descends into chaos for a few days and then everything goes back to normal again. This was pretty bad because it was a 1 in 75yr storm; we had a bad storm around a month ago too, that went on for longer but I think less rain fell because it caused less damage.

Interesting, thanks. I have just been reading up on the plans for Dubai World Central. Amazing what can be achieved with minimal red tape and endless cheap labour. Makes you realise how stagnant things are in Western Europe.

Regarding freak weather events I always chuckle when I see all the redundant snow clearing equipment parked up at LHR and LGW. IIRC they were panic buys after a bit of snow more than 10 years ago and largely unused since.

Edited by Hereward on Thursday 18th April 20:18

Your recollection is wrong.

The snow equipment at LHR was bought in the back of the Begg report, circa 13 years ago.

The equipment, hardly redundant, has been used numerous times since then and is exercised several times each winter, snow or no snow, when the airport team undertakes snow drills.

No, my recollection was spot on - the Winter of 2010 was what I was thinking of, which was "more than 10 years ago".

Happy to be corrected by you regarding their subsequent use. Of course it was silly of me to think they sit around totally idle.

[IanUAE]

The rain we had in Dubai last Tuesday crazy. Some areas have only just been cleared of water and many of the ground floor apartments and ground floor of the town houses in the community I live in had water 12" and deeper in them.

Even with full drainage, not sure how many cities would have had no issues with the volume of rain received in 1 day.