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Old 14th Oct 2007, 05:46
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The problem is that most countries/airports where they will report water/contaminate depth are invariably the ones which have well designed drainage and grooved runways ... It tends to be places where asking for a simple ATC request is diificult to communicate that tend to be the runways that are not properly drained or grooved ...

If your company is asking you to operate their machinery into such places one has to make a sensible judgement on the conditions, once the reversers are deployed on most types you negate the GA option and are only then finding out what the true BA is like having touched down ...

Commercial pressures are often the cause of overrun accidents, with not being able to 100% justify your actions in diverting in such cases with no 'hard facts' on the runway state to back up your decision.

(BTW: Chenia/Madrass mentioned above is undergoing runway grooving work over the next few months ... hopefuly Mumbai/Bombay will follow their lead in due course ...).
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