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Rightbase
BAA or BBC?
I've just heard the BBC report BAA as saying the snow ploughs have been working all day. The problem is they have so much snow they don't know where to put it.
Suggestions?
To be fair, remember most of the airfield is already covered with it.
Rightbase. I can help. 3 suggestions....
1. More kit
2. Get it off the surfaces.
3. If still too much, put what you scooped off into tipper trucks and take it away like they do in HEL.
There are many busy international airports that handle all a/c types and would have slowed but stayed functional today. They have had more practice. Machinery is cheap if you factor in ALL the costs. Today would have paid for some ploughs and labour and been a one day payback. No business plan required.
The third runway at LHR is necessary for increased capacity and spacing. Just please include a few bits of kit if poss?...and maybe some people that know what they are doing?
The theme?
You just have to know what you are doing. Then you don't think there is snow 'everywhere' and no possible solution.
Snow and ice is a huge problem but maybe all the talk of global warming has stopped people thinking it can ever be cold?
Solution: Use the diggers to scoop the odd bunch of Plane Stupid supporters off the taxiways and utilisation increases to a point where it is now economic to invest in such devices?
G