PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Cold Weather Corrections - Departures
View Single Post
Old 8th Mar 2014, 17:35
  #4 (permalink)  
Inner_Ninja
 
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: United Federation of Awesome
Posts: 5
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
I worked as an ATCO for most of my life and never heard of cold weather corrections so I don't think it's common practice.
As I believe you don't very often experience -20C and below in the UK very often, of course it's not common practice there.

To provide real world experience on top of the excellent info form TheChitterneFlyer and LookingForAJob, I have had a pilot inform they were applying temperature correction in an overshoot/go-around situation, with the published missed altitude of 4 000 feet, and the Mode C when they leveled was 4 300 feet (it was _VERY_ cold out). Never seen it on a standard departure, but if an aircraft was vectored off a SID, the temperature corrected MVA should be used by ATC. I would not expect temperature correction to be applied by the drivers.

Last edited by Inner_Ninja; 8th Mar 2014 at 22:13.
Inner_Ninja is offline