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Strange experience travelling from Faro to Doncaster/Sheffield airport last week. Perfect sunny day, no wind to speak of.
Plane came into land, touched down, but then instead of braking, accelerated back down the runway and took off again. Captain came on a couple of minutes later and claimed "wind had got under wings" making taking off again the safest option because we'd travelled too far down the runway.
Couldn't really buy this at all. There was no wind and I understand the runway is one of the longest in the country at around 2 miles. If he messed up that badly, can't imagine he should be flying.
Could this have been a planned training exercise, or is there some other explanation?
Plane came into land, touched down, but then instead of braking, accelerated back down the runway and took off again. Captain came on a couple of minutes later and claimed "wind had got under wings" making taking off again the safest option because we'd travelled too far down the runway.
Couldn't really buy this at all. There was no wind and I understand the runway is one of the longest in the country at around 2 miles. If he messed up that badly, can't imagine he should be flying.
Could this have been a planned training exercise, or is there some other explanation?
Sounds fair enough, they were going to Land too far down the runway to stop safely so went around for another go. That's clearly safer than landing long and then going off the end. You might land long for a multitude of reasons and if you go around very late on then you'll still touch down as part of the go around manoeuvre.
Back in the good old days of RAF Finningley, there were a couple of whingers in both Finningley village and Blaxton whose constant complaints about a/c noise meant you had to extend downwind and turn finals late to avoid them when operating off R/W 21 (R/W 20 today).
While I don't remember any restrictions of this nature on Instrument Approaches (and landing well in to the R/W) I suppose the intervening 17 years might have meant an increase in NIMBYs and odd 'avoids'.
While I don't remember any restrictions of this nature on Instrument Approaches (and landing well in to the R/W) I suppose the intervening 17 years might have meant an increase in NIMBYs and odd 'avoids'.
Ginetta G15 Girl said:
Back in the good old days of RAF Finningley, there were a couple of whingers in both Finningley village and Blaxton whose constant complaints about a/c noise meant you had to extend downwind and turn finals late to avoid them when operating off R/W 21 (R/W 20 today).
While I don't remember any restrictions of this nature on Instrument Approaches (and landing well in to the R/W) I suppose the intervening 17 years might have meant an increase in NIMBYs and odd 'avoids'.
Interesting you should mention that. Part way through the flight the captain said something about having to approach from a different direction to normal bacause of some noise restriction in the area. Completely forgot about that. Maybe that had something to do with it.While I don't remember any restrictions of this nature on Instrument Approaches (and landing well in to the R/W) I suppose the intervening 17 years might have meant an increase in NIMBYs and odd 'avoids'.
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