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FAA bars flight maneuver after D.C. incident
Close call at Reagan National prompts change The Federal Aviation Administration will bar airports nationwide from using a traffic-reversing operation after a close call last week at an airport near the nation’s capital. (www.washingtontimes.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This is kind of a knee jerk reaction. Nothing happened, the planes were never even really that close, yet we're freaking out because airplanes are involved. By the reasoning employed here the use of automobiles should have been outlawed well before the Great War.
Before we know it .. all the "former" military bases may "re-open" so there will be some place for them to land .. then bus them back to the original destination
every airport has a calm wind runway designation.... that is, when the wind is calm RWY xx is always used.. but, it's much bigger than that... a major airport runway in use impacts approach control and center operations. If SFO has to change runways, arrivals and departures out of airports in the area are all effected and the patterns for airports in the area are changed, too... changing runways not a simple operation... that being said, it is possible to allow opposite direction departure or arrival during lulls in activity
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FAA suspends air traffic procedure that preceded close call near D.C.
The Federal Aviation Administration has suspended an air traffic-switching procedure that preceded a close call among three planes last week at Washington's Reagan National Airport, Reuters reports.
http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/post/2012/08/faa-suspends-air-traffic-procedure-that-preceded-close-call/819701/1
FAA suspends air traffic procedure that preceded close call near D.C.
The Federal Aviation Administration has suspended an air traffic-switching procedure that preceded a close call among three planes last week at Washington's Reagan National Airport, Reuters reports.
http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/post/2012/08/faa-suspends-air-traffic-procedure-that-preceded-close-call/819701/1
let's see... tower sees wind shift...must change runway... notifies approach control who notifies center.. looks like they'll have to hold all the inbounds somewhere... pity the poor controller who just accepted 5-6 inbounds then gets shut-off and has to find a place to put them... does this sound safer to you?
Can a controller explain this to me please? This article is pretty weak.
I assume they are not preventing airports from changing runways for arrivals and departures based on wind conditions.
It would seem they are Just preventing them from happening together. Basically they are saying traffic has to flow one way. No arrivals and departures heading "straight at each other".
I assume they are not preventing airports from changing runways for arrivals and departures based on wind conditions.
It would seem they are Just preventing them from happening together. Basically they are saying traffic has to flow one way. No arrivals and departures heading "straight at each other".
I don't go back to work until tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure this is just saying that if ATC is advertising a west flow, and the wind is calm enough and a pilot requests to depart east, these will be automatically denied. It will hurt the smaller airports that have abilities to depart opposite direction sometimes. this is not saying once on a west flow always on a west flow that isn't feasible, and therefore didn't fix the problem anyway... typical FAA
Yup, dealt with this early this morning, calm wind, tower opens on a south departure cause that is what a plane was doing when it opened. 3 of us all departing north had to take the much longer taxi from the terminal to depart south then wait for departure to turn us back north. Controller said he would have had to have any inbounds hold (though the only one had already landed right when the tower opened) and change the atis to allow any north takeoffs or landings.
Ain't the fedul gummit wunerful.LOL Lot's of new terminals are now being built at one end of the runway as well, rather than mid-field. it'll get worse before it gets better.LOL