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Old 24th Oct 2007, 10:43
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mr.777
 
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Always good to have feedback Fred.
Are you saying you'd prefer to fly at at a higher or lower speed though?
If its higher, we like to get you back to 160 asap on SRAs because its easier for us to judge heading corrections at a lower speed.
If you'd like to fly slower, thats even more benefit to us although we do have spacing requirements to adhere to from the Tower...if in doubt, an early "heads-up" (i.e on the downwind leg) is always helpful to us as we can build a bit of extra space between you and the preceding/following a/c.

As regards sickness, i cant comment as I myself was off sick yesterday on an afternoon shift! As has been already correctly pointed out, the taxiway reconstruction works at KK arent helping at the moment as the tower can require up to 30miles between pairs of a/c as opposed to the usual 6miles under normal 26L/08R ops. Although summer is over, there is still a fair bit of traffic into KK until about 0100 as well which can necessitate holding. The bad news is the taxiway works are scheduled to last until February
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