Originally Posted by
Bill4a
a great sense of satisfaction in shifting blocks of ice without damaging anything (too much!)
Not Christmas but I triumph of MRD work at Waddo. Spent from Friday until Sunday noon getting the runway in a fit state for recovery of a tin triangle from Goose.
He duly pitched up and asked for the runway state - 90% black top we told him.
Fine, where is the 10%?
All over. One metre of ice every 10 sqr meters.
No sooner had the MRDs flaked off one section it froze on the next. MT also managed to create a 3 foot ice wall from Foxtrot to the 03 threshold.
Success!
Now had SATCO allowed us to use steel blades as we had on the lazy runway we would have had 100% black top and minimal damage anyway.