Maddie
23rd Jun 2013, 19:11
Good evening all,
Friday just gone I was on flight to Dublin, it was a smooth flight, no bumps, also when we landed there was virtually no wind either. However, on our final approach we had to go into a hold as the runway we were going to land on, had just been classified as off limits by ATC because of wind.
The 10 minute to land bell had already been announced and it was a few minutes after this that the Captain announced the delay and the reason for it, so it was obviously a relatively short-notice decision to switch runways.
I was just wondering what type of wind would have caused this, is it a particular type of cross-wind that just happened to be blowing around at that time. It was around 4.30pm.
Just curious as this has never happened to me before and I do fly a fair bit
Friday just gone I was on flight to Dublin, it was a smooth flight, no bumps, also when we landed there was virtually no wind either. However, on our final approach we had to go into a hold as the runway we were going to land on, had just been classified as off limits by ATC because of wind.
The 10 minute to land bell had already been announced and it was a few minutes after this that the Captain announced the delay and the reason for it, so it was obviously a relatively short-notice decision to switch runways.
I was just wondering what type of wind would have caused this, is it a particular type of cross-wind that just happened to be blowing around at that time. It was around 4.30pm.
Just curious as this has never happened to me before and I do fly a fair bit