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Marlhill Copse back on the agenda next week with the council, recommendation is to approve with limited remediation to select trees. Assume if passed this will improve runway declared distances
Last edited by SKOJB; 20th Jun 2023 at 21:46.
Will not have any impact on the runway declared distances, but, if the selected ones are the worst Type A Chart penetrating obstacles then their removal could further improve the increased take-off weights brought about by provision of the runway extension, ie more passengers or range. It would then be the proverbial icing on the cake.
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Seeing the runway practically kisses the M27 how about traffic lights to stop high sided vehicles passing when there is a Easyjet departure or maybe brushing the tree tops is enough?
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International survey standards require that if you have a road or railway passing close to a runway to allow for mobile obstacles that may be using it, the surveyor must add 4.8 metres to its level. Hence the reason why the M27 to the south is in a cutting and accordingly does not show as "mobile obstacles" on the ICAO Type A charts.Hence no traffic lights required - simples!
"Brushing the tree tops" clearly shows a total ignorance of how obstacles are operationally managed, not worth causing any more wear to my keyboard.
do you think anyone would stop??
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Presumably it's the 90m x 74m RESA but whether it has an 'arrester' surface I don't know.
I'm a little surprised that this very minimum RESA length that SOU has is permitted considering what lies in the overrun path. Grandfather rights presumably.
I'm a little surprised that this very minimum RESA length that SOU has is permitted considering what lies in the overrun path. Grandfather rights presumably.
After an idiot in a Citation tried to save time/money while positioning in to do an outbound charter. Landed (very late) on RWY 20 with a tailwind on a wet runway and ended up on the M27. We must be close to the anniversary of the idiot's antics?
With the arrestor bed in place it was put to good use some years later when a Seneca, landing in fog well below weather minima, saw the runway very late, decided to go for it and ended up in the arrestor bed. Fortunately for SOU minimal damage, the Seneca didn't do so well!
With the arrestor bed in place it was put to good use some years later when a Seneca, landing in fog well below weather minima, saw the runway very late, decided to go for it and ended up in the arrestor bed. Fortunately for SOU minimal damage, the Seneca didn't do so well!
Four new photos have appeared dated 20 June. While showing that progress is being made, I feel that pictures of cable ducts falls short of the public's expectations of what was going to be shown? Where are some drone or other aerial shots of the construction site?
Now understood that something more exciting may appear next week?
After an idiot in a Citation tried to save time/money while positioning in to do an outbound charter. Landed (very late) on RWY 20 with a tailwind on a wet runway and ended up on the M27. We must be close to the anniversary of the idiot's antics?
With the arrestor bed in place it was put to good use some years later when a Seneca, landing in fog well below weather minima, saw the runway very late, decided to go for it and ended up in the arrestor bed. Fortunately for SOU minimal damage, the Seneca didn't do so well!
With the arrestor bed in place it was put to good use some years later when a Seneca, landing in fog well below weather minima, saw the runway very late, decided to go for it and ended up in the arrestor bed. Fortunately for SOU minimal damage, the Seneca didn't do so well!
On another note, I've just viewed the totally underwhelming images on the runway extension APP 🙄
someone has started another Southampton thread - - ignore!!!
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Last edited by stewyb; 27th Jun 2023 at 18:43.