CMF (Chambrey) Flights

[Mad-Air]

1000hrs first day of the season: The de-icing machine has packed up, our a/c now stuck due to snow and ice, two more flights today to op through CMF.
Need I say any more.......!!!
Who else operates through CMF? - Do you have the same problems?
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[crewrest]

Sounds like the skiing must be good, if you get get there

[In trim]

Lovely little airport, Chambery. 340 days per year they handle 3 turboprop flights per day to Paris, then winter weekends they get inundated with more flights than they can cope with.

You're lucky they've got any de-icing facilities at all....2 years ago they didn't!

The equipment they have got is basic to say the least! But if you put someone down there each Saturday to kick, scream, chase, encourage.....it definitely gets you priority treatment. Trust me....I've been there and it works!

[arrow2]

Excellent - so it has been snowing there - off to Alpe D'Huez next Friday so I am a happy bunny! Nothing wrong with Chambery in the summer been there a few times in PA28.

A2

[Raw Data]

Chambery is great fun... not very organised, though.

I had to go to Innsbruck today, now that is a nightmare... ended up missing and going to Salzburg. As usual, the LOWI weather observations were hopelessly optimistic...

[tech...again]

I was in LYS all day yesterday/22 DEC (16.5 hours!) dealing with the fall-out from CMF's almighty cock-up... <img src="mad.gif" border="0">

CMF rarely if ever actually gets snow, but that wasn't so much the problem yesterday as the total lack of de-icing fluid. How organised... <img src="eek.gif" border="0">

They seem to have got it sorted today though, even if the handling seems to have been rather snail-paced... <img src="wink.gif" border="0">

TA

[spoilers yellow]

We set off LGW-CMF in the morning of the 22nd, forecast was for light snow(rare in CMF).

When we got the weather it was heavy snow, braking action was poor, we sat in the hold for 20mins- no improvement so set off for LYS ( i think they handled something like 60 diversions that day!!)

The company shifted all CMF services to LYS for the rest of the day.

[Multp]

I remember quite a few years ago spending a few minutes or so blowing snow off the runway using a Puma helicopter...a rather expensive 'snowplough' but added another facet to the role of helicopter operations!
I was based there for four winters and only one year did we have any significant snowfall.
Happy Times!

(No, I'm not really so sad as to have nothing better to do than to post here on Christmas Day, but some of us have to work today. Will be off to make some noise soon! Happy Christmas to all.)