Originally Posted by
jmmoric
4 miles final and 3 departures? That’s 3 departures in less than 2 minutes.... if your 737 is doing 120 on final, and the departures use 40 seconds to get airborne... it’s barely doable.
I’d personally believe in 2 departures.... unless something small you can get out of the way fast.
All 3 departures were 737s, the first was rolling as we hit 4nm; the second was cleared as soon as the first was airborne and I was pretty amazed when the third was then cleared, however we still got landing clearance by about 1.5nm; don't ask me what departure separations were used as I don't know however my crew said similar situations were not unknown.
I'd call it good runway utilisation.
On another fam flight departing 08R in a 737, the captain wound it up to about 50% before we even turned onto the runway so maybe these guys were doing the same.