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Old 30th Dec 2006, 21:04
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anoraknophobia
 
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Runway resurfacing

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but in this case has someone cocked up big time? No work is being carried out on the resurfacing of the runway between 21 dec and 2nd jan,standard practice for the construction industry so this temporary runway surface has to be landed on for the best part of two weeks. As anyone who has read the Bristol postings on the rumours thread can see, bad weather at Bristol can be challenging for pilots at the best of times,but these latest incidents would seem to indicate a miscalulation in the timing of these works.Have commercial pressures,ie keeping the runway closed for the minimum time impacted on the work that can be achieved each night. The work is not scheduled to be completed till March so Winter 2007 could yet throw up some more nasties.
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