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Icarus2001
 
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60 mins holding PH to avoid landing overweight Sun 5 October

Does anyone want to share with the rest of the class any info about a Velocity callsign yesterday calling Perth approach and advising that they needed to hold for 60 minutes to avoid landing overweight. They were then apparently asked to CLIMB to FL 120 to hold, so the crew must have realised quite late that they were too heavy. Good pick up of course. Just wondered if it was winds, FMS, flat batteries in the calculator? Or was it an air return not requiring an immediate return to land?
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