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Old 7th Oct 2007, 00:56
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Don't forget however that Pilot reports of breaking action are very subjective.
The only report that should be reliable is the one from the Airport Authority testing equipment.
In Cx we will not allow landing on a RWY that has a breaking action of "poor".
This does not apply if it's Pilot reported, only if it comes from an official measuring equipment report from the Tower.
Now do ATC in a lot of Asian counties have the correct Measuring equipment? Do they ever use it?
I've never seen it ( apart from Japan in Snow ) used in Mnl, Tpe, Kul, Sin, Cgk, Bkk, etc etc in heavy rain.
At the end of the day you are going to have to decide for yourselves based on local knowledge of the RWY surface at the place your landing.
Off the top of my head, RWY's that I know to be slippery when wet are:
BOM 09/27, TPE 06/24, MNL 06/24, PEN 04, CMB 04, BKK 14L.
Those RWY's are not grooved.
SIN, SEL, BKK, HKG, NRT etc all have nice grooved RWY's.
Refer to the Jepp chart for the correct details as my memory is not as good as it used to be!!
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