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Old 16th October 2003 | 01:40
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I can't remember if 3/21 was/wasn't available. We didn't have the data for one of the runways, can't remember which one. The controllers indeed would have honered our request for 35, however the time frame given would have been unacceptable from a fuel standpoint. Which given operational restrictions means that the runway most aligned into the wind was not available.

I don't blame the controlllers, they were simply following the rules they had to work within. I do fault whom ever decided to allow noise abatement to seemingly hold a higher wrung on the ladder than safety of flight.
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