PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Another Aircraft off the Runway at BRS?
View Single Post
Old 8th Jan 2007, 07:44
  #243 (permalink)  
BEagle
 
Join Date: May 1999
Location: Quite near 'An aerodrome somewhere in England'
Posts: 26,839
Received 279 Likes on 113 Posts
Certainly that's what I've always understood.

I have often noted that many pilots do not understand (or have forgotten) that 'slippery when wet' means that 'ice' values must be used for performance planning when that runway is anything other than damp (surface colour change, no glistening).

At Lulsgate, it has been seen that 10 airlines have quite rightly taken a stance against the risks posed by a 'slippery when wet' runway - and yet others, some of whom who operate the same aircraft type, have continued. Why are some airlines prepared to risk their passengers' safety when others are not?
BEagle is offline