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marmel
20th May 2007, 22:51
I've been a passenger on the Malev Budapest-Dublin flight several times in the last few months, and they always make a strange route change when they get close to Dublin... I was hoping someone here would know why.

When the flight gets within say 50miles (best guess) of Dublin it makes a sharp 90deg left turn, approx 5 mins of level flight, and another 90deg right turn before landing straight in. It looks very strange on the passenger moving-map.

Can anyone enlighten me as to why this is done? I've never seen this sort of major route correction on any other flight.

Fried_Chicken
21st May 2007, 11:15
Hazarding a guess, you may have been tracking direct the DUB VOR which is North of the airport. The left & then right turns may have to position you for a long final for straight into RW28 at Dublin (assuming that was the runway in use)

FC