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Old 17th Dec 2003, 16:17
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Tonic Please
 
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Cold weather and airliners

Lately in the UK, (London area in particular), it has been very cold by my standards in the mornig. Its lovely to wake up to clear skies and aircraft contrails at 8am but I just wanted to know if you big guys and EGK and GLL do anything different to get the planes up and running.

Do your runway distances and fuel load get affected? Do you use more "voltage" due to anti ices being on all over the place? Do you have these on as soon as you sit in the pointy end?

What other factors must you concider with such climatic conditions?

Smooth skies

Dan
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