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Old 8th Oct 2002, 16:10
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interesting thread..
In the Lr60, we suffer a huge penalty when landing in the wet. By "wet" I mean shiney surface, and this is a huge problem when landing somewhere like EGLF. We can land at MLM in the dry but when its called wet, we can't land unless we have zero fuel(obviously not an option.) Also what irks me is that EGLF have just redone their runway, but it is not Grooved!! stupid..

Hence we have stopped ops into eglf due to the chance of having to divert due to wet rwy, and this annoys the pax (and sticks them onto the M25 to get from eg EGGW to EGLF..)

My plea is that when issuing rwy conditions, be a bit more picky about whats damp and whats wet..
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