PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Wet Runway Performance
View Single Post
Old 17th Mar 2006, 11:48
  #11 (permalink)  
Bigmosquito
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Worldwide
Posts: 24
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Contaminated runway

I don't know about the B-737. However airports operations on loose snow and slush covered runways are treated in a similar manner as operations on a runway contaminated with standing water. The only difference is that because of different densities, a measurable depth of loose snow or slush must first be converted to an equivalent depth of standing water.
Do you have a table converting loose snow, slush into water depth?
Other type of contamination are treated with other tables.
Up to 3mm of water - WET (JAA)
Above 3mm of water & more than 25% - Contaminated (JAA)
Example:
35mm (1.38 in) of loose snow is equivalent to 12.2mm (0.48 in) of standing water.
You have then a runway surface contaminant in terms of equivalent water depth.
This number is then entered into the appropriate charts.
But before going further, what type of charts does Boeing provides?
Rgds.
Bigmosquito is offline