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Old 6th Feb 2007, 22:57
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tangoecho
 
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I was listening to ATC when FR was on approach on the 5th feb.
He was about 10 miles out and asked for braking action on the runway (after the snow shower) and was told the runway was slush (so many mm's) and couldn't get a proper friction reading because of the slush.

FR wasn't happy with this and ATC put them in the hold until a runway inspection was done.
After about 10 mins ATC told FR the runway was now wet full lengh and they came in for another approach.
They were cleared to land and a light snow shower started again, FR pulled up and said they weren't happy and diverted to EDI.

Now during all this planes were landing and departing. Airfield was never closed during the couple of hours I was listening.

Stu...
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