Hi Caucatc
Nope, not BA. Private. My comment was to Bekolblockage asking for 07R for the Business Aviation Centre at Hong Kong. I'm not sure that RADAR realize how much taxi time (and a runway crossing) it saves us (07L is preferred by the airport). Usually, if we ask, they're very helpful and we get 07R
Beijing usually give us 36L/R or 18L/R which is ok for stand 629.
While I've got a nice friendly, helpful Beijing ATCO here, can I ask why you guys always tell us to descend so early? We tend to trundle around at about FL450. As a rule of thumb, if you take the number of thousands of feet (45) and multiply by 3.1 you get the number of nautical miles we need for an "ideal" descent. so 45 (thousand feet) * 3.1 = 139.5. Usually in China they start us descending well before 200 miles. Why so soon?
Cheers
Last edited by welliewanger; 17th May 2010 at 10:54.