Originally Posted by PT6A
Our company advises us to consider all Indian runways as contaminated for 30 minutes after rainfall (Due to the fact they are poorly constructed and ungrooved)
The new airports at Hyderabad and Bangalore have runways that are crowned and grooved. There may be others ...
I wouldn't raise Kolkata and Chennai to the level of "death traps", but you do have to be really careful in a rainy crosswind, especially at VECC.
Why do Indian Airports flat out refuse to accept that their runways are contaminated?
I hadn't run into this, but it's been over two years since I've flown there. I don't know anything about ATS guidance, but I'm sure they're required to pass along pireps unless they have better information (or
think they know better
).