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Divert or not Divert ... Simple Question?
Fog in EZE causes British Airways Boeing 777 to divert...or it least it should have. (avherald.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
As an argentina, I have experienced this airport first hand. Not really sure why international flights are scheduled around the same times, but weather like this happens all the time (usually from Chile's active volcano), it just happened that this time the pilots were eager to meet the passengers needs.
Could have been those pilots were familiar with the WX and that may have been wy they held so long, thinking it may lift
considering that the wx was improving, possibly to well above mins, there was no reason to divert. If it was legal to shoot the approach and EZE wasnt letting them, that could really have hosed them all. It sounds like AA was in the process of going elsewhere, but the METAR shows that EZE was legal. No need to spend all that gas getting to your alternate just to be at emergency fuel when you get there.
10-4 on that but this one is, at least for CAT3A, but controllers said it was below that which Is 200m. You know I really never have understood all that crap; made a lot of them but at basically 600'in which to make that type decision, depending on the exact AC, you are either flaring or close to it and if visibility is that bad on the ground, I really didn't want in that mess anyway, and you get on into the B or C, that's crazy. Even if you do fly it to the ground, most airports don't have the ground radar to safely move you around anyway and it's like taking your life into your own hands. A lot of controllers have told me that they depend on the engine vortices to give the pilots a little hole to manuever in.
good to know (y), I'm not there yet, still two weeks away from my private pilot's license
I am pretty much retired now but am still very current. I flew big iron 135 my entire career; for that I was blessed and very fortunate, but it don't matter whether you pursue it as a career or just as a hobby, to me there was never anything more thrilling or satisfying that wheels up and watching the earth fall away. You just hang in there and get that licenseI remember being young and just starting out as an FE on a 707. I really hated that because on takeoffs, my eyes were glued to the panel and the Captain hoping he didn't hear a negative word out of me. Every now and then though, I'd cut my eyes to the front.lol
nothing like looking over your left shoulder when ATC call "traffic at 12 o'clock"
lol, and you hope somebody sees it.
Haha. Pretty inspirational. I'm going to college in a year and one of my requierments (like personally) are that there has to be a flight school in an accesible place. Sounds kind of crazy, so I usually don't tell anyone that lol