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sherman said:
ChocolateFrog said:
sherman said:
Loganair having fun getting into Shetland today.
LM78 from Aberdeen to Kirkwall https://fr24.com/LOG37JG/2750433e
What's going on there then? LM78 from Aberdeen to Kirkwall https://fr24.com/LOG37JG/2750433e
Fuel burning?
ETA just looked in up, no approaches onto 33 so looks like 27 (westerly) is in use with a (too) big crosswind from the north.
Gonna be fun in the ATR.
El stovey said:
33 looks a goer from that? maybe it’s not available or something?
ETA just looked in up, no approaches onto 33 so looks like 27 (westerly) is in use with a (too) big crosswind from the north.
Gonna be fun in the ATR.
My other half is on it. Going to her work for the next 2 weeks thats why Im watching it. Thanks for the info ETA just looked in up, no approaches onto 33 so looks like 27 (westerly) is in use with a (too) big crosswind from the north.
Gonna be fun in the ATR.
It landed
Edited by sherman on Tuesday 6th April 17:50
Edited by sherman on Tuesday 6th April 17:50
sherman said:
El stovey said:
33 looks a goer from that? maybe it’s not available or something?
ETA just looked in up, no approaches onto 33 so looks like 27 (westerly) is in use with a (too) big crosswind from the north.
Gonna be fun in the ATR.
My other half is on it. Going to her work for the next 2 weeks thats why Im watching it. Thanks for the info ETA just looked in up, no approaches onto 33 so looks like 27 (westerly) is in use with a (too) big crosswind from the north.
Gonna be fun in the ATR.
The hold was the racetrack shape you could see on FR24 and also here
There’s also some weather to the south of the airfield.
The crosswind looks to be too strong for them to land at the moment,
I’ve tried to summarise the issues as I see them here.
El stovey said:
So they did a visual approach onto runway 33 in the end?
That would have been bumpy with that wind from the north blowing over the hills.
Be interesting to hear how it was.
She just messaged. It was terrifying and will be having a large whisky later to calm the nerves That would have been bumpy with that wind from the north blowing over the hills.
Be interesting to hear how it was.
Thanks for the data.
Krikkit said:
When would anything SF require something that can't sling under a Chinook?
When range is involved.When speed of response is involved.
When HALO (High Altitude Low Opening) and HAHO (High Altitude High Opening) para drops are involved. A400 can't achieve either.
When TALO (Tactical Air Land Operation) is required - C-130 massively outperforms A400 here.
When Low level RIB drops for the SBS are required.
A400 is too big and too unwieldy to be thought of as a Tactical Transport and CANNOT achieve what C-130 achieves.
That is the reason why we retained the K model for as long as we did and why we retained 14 J models.
Canning the Herc is a short-sighted, and, frankly, utterly stupid idea.
seabod91 said:
As per some previous post’s, does anyone have anymore info on that these companies / customers are actually surveying ?
We had this up near us a few days ago, seemed to be surveying the line aircraft will take from the new hold//stack in south Cambridgeshire to where they would turn for finals into Luton.El stovey said:
So they did a visual approach onto runway 33 in the end?
That would have been bumpy with that wind from the north blowing over the hills.
Be interesting to hear how it was.
It's the first flight I've ever been on where the pilot got applause on landing. That would have been bumpy with that wind from the north blowing over the hills.
Be interesting to hear how it was.
Yes it was runway 33. You need a visual approach on landing at Sumburgh. Often that means getting below the cloud and approaching at what is pretty close to sea level. It's always entertaining.
knotweed said:
El stovey said:
So they did a visual approach onto runway 33 in the end?
That would have been bumpy with that wind from the north blowing over the hills.
Be interesting to hear how it was.
It's the first flight I've ever been on where the pilot got applause on landing. That would have been bumpy with that wind from the north blowing over the hills.
Be interesting to hear how it was.
Yes it was runway 33. You need a visual approach on landing at Sumburgh. Often that means getting below the cloud and approaching at what is pretty close to sea level. It's always entertaining.
I did not see it personally, but I am told that there was a Shadow King Air and U2 both visible on FlightRadar,
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
sherman said:
knotweed said:
El stovey said:
So they did a visual approach onto runway 33 in the end?
That would have been bumpy with that wind from the north blowing over the hills.
Be interesting to hear how it was.
It's the first flight I've ever been on where the pilot got applause on landing. That would have been bumpy with that wind from the north blowing over the hills.
Be interesting to hear how it was.
Yes it was runway 33. You need a visual approach on landing at Sumburgh. Often that means getting below the cloud and approaching at what is pretty close to sea level. It's always entertaining.
chopper602 said:
Anyone's guess!It's a Basler BT-67, a re-engineered Douglas DC-3 with turboprop engines. Originally a 1943 built C-47B, serial number 43-48859, and served with the USAAF, the French Armée de l'Air, and the South Vietnamese Air Force before ending up sitting in the desert boneyard by 1980... http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Se... ...the last picture on that page shows the 'plane at Abuja, Nigeria in 2019, doing survey work.
'ALCI' is the Antarctic Logisitcs Centre International. They operate cargo flights taking spares, fuel, etc, to Antarctic expeditions and scientific research stations, I think.
This one crashed and was salvaged from deep in the Antarctic in 2009, then was damaged again when it hit a snowplow on a taxiway in 2016...
https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id...
https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id...
Salvage video from the 2009 incident... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOwQuQfquRI
But no, i have no idea what it's doing in the UK right now.
Edited by yellowjack on Wednesday 7th April 17:02
yellowjack said:
chopper602 said:
Anyone's guess!It's a Basler BT-67, a re-engineered Douglas DC-3 with turboprop engines. Originally a 1943 built C-47B, serial number 43-48859, and served with the USAAF, the French Armée de l'Air, and the South Vietnamese Air Force before ending up sitting in the desert boneyard by 1980... http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Se... ...the last picture on that page shows the 'plane at Abuja, Nigeria in 2019, doing survey work.
'ALCI' is the Antarctic Logisitcs Centre International. They operate cargo flights taking spares, fuel, etc, to Antarctic expeditions and scientific research stations, I think.
This one crashed and was salvaged from deep in the Antarctic in 2009, then was damaged again when it hit a snowplow on a taxiway in 2016...
https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id...
https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id...
Salvage video from the 2009 incident... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOwQuQfquRI
But no, i have no idea what it's doing in the UK right now.
Edited by yellowjack on Wednesday 7th April 17:02
It's led some life to date though from coming off the line in Oklahoma in the early '40's: could wrap that history into an decent animated film or graphic novel.
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