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Old 27th Feb 2006, 04:21
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Originally Posted by Buster Hyman
Monday February 27, 12:48 PM
The Canberra International Airport will soon be open to frequent 747 flights with the Federal Government announcing a multi-million dollar upgrade of its main runway.

Good.
The mob I fly for use Canberra as a technical alternate. It'd be nice if could really use it though, as when we really need a practical alternate we have to use either MEL or BNE.
And some of the turkeys I work with can't understand what a tech alternate is anyway.
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