Wx at LHR Monday morning.......

[Jerricho]

Hey guys and girls,

Trying to get hold of a certain BAW pilot this morning that was given some rather extended routing around the sky "cloud dodging" from Ock.

As your Tour Operator and co-ordinator, I think you owe me a Tenner!! ;). That certainly was the senic route.

Wasn't much fun this morning, but you gotta laugh. Hope you had a safe trip home form the airport!!

Take care,
J.

[Shuttleworth]

does anybody understand this posting?

[5milesbaby]

If you have seen the wx in the London TMA for the last 5 days or so you would certainly know what its all about. Must have been difficult for those trying to calculate holding fuel when they had nowhere to hold, and a very uncertain number of track miles to touchdown. The best one I saw was the OCK inbound that tracked thro the KK overhead before turning north to go in via LAM, as long as its not regular....... :mad:

[vertigo]

And because no one will fly the headings issued we can't land enough aircraft.
With over forty aircraft per hour arriving at the stacks and barely thirty per hour landing, delays soon go through the roof.
Then as soon as the weather calms down you always get at least one pilot demanding to know why his delay is 35 minutes !

This when we are under increasing (customer) pressure to reduce flow control even at the cost of increasing airborne delays.

[Jerricho]

Perhaps it isn't 100% clear to anybody else, but the poor old BAW jet left Ock heading Northish over the top of the field, then turned NW, merrily steaming towards BNN, then had to double back the way he came, then turned downwind for a right ciricuit.....probably travelled close to an extra 45 miles.

As I was implying, great tour of West London. If I were a cabbie and charged by the mile, it would have been a great fare!!!

[Doors to Automatic]

This routing is not unheard of though is it? I did it once about 12 years ago and there did not appear to be any rough weather in the area.

[Point Seven]

DoorstoAutomatic

Sounds like you got Jerricho when he was training. Or valid.

P7