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Old 7th May 2008, 07:32
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Got caught in fog there nearlly fifteen yrs ago and nothing seems to have changed and nothing ever will unless someone plows in!
Even then I doubt whether things would even change then, Launy is Launy!
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Old 7th May 2008, 07:46
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Somebody ploughing-in will not change the fog situation at Launy!

PS: 40 posts and not a peep from Canary, the thread starter!
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Old 7th May 2008, 08:00
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Interesting that Missy knows what the crew should have done, and in what order. I don't, I wasn't there. With fog around, either runway might have been suitable and usable. Tasdevil.f27 says that VB used 32L for the 2nd approach and JQ was still above. 'After the event' WHAT IF's count for naught. Professional pilots pre-brief on Contingency Planning, and leave What If's to the wannabes and neverwillbes.
We don't need another unsubstantiated LAUNY beat-up like the action taken against the QF crew with the supposed lights out incident. Hearsay affected the 2 QF guys lives, even though there was no supporting evidence.

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Old 7th May 2008, 09:12
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As Vref+5 said ...

I"n G there is no separation standard listed therefore there was no airprox"

As a punter, am I pleased that my Jet RPT aircraft is flying in dodgy weather, near another Jet RPT aircraft, in airspace that has no separation standards?

Damn right, I'm not
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Old 7th May 2008, 09:56
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He said both aircraft were in contact with the Melbourne control tower because the Launceston tower had closed.
No wonder they nearly hit, they were talking to Melbourne Tower not Melbourne Centre.

Bloody good radios we have in towers these days!
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Old 7th May 2008, 11:32
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Dubya speaks crap again.

"Yes Maggott,

at night, in IMC, and RPT... other procedures are available, and are sometimes different to published missed approaches.
The pilot would also have had available to him (or her) the single engine contingency (aka escape procedure) which can be used in a situation if you get to the bottom of an approach, then suffer engine failure and don't get visual. The published missed approach will kill you. In this case it is okay to use the single engine contingency....
What I am trying to say, is that we can't comment on what the crews did on this occasion. They may have used procedures that you and I have no idea of....and been totally legal in doing it...."

Both engines in both aircraft in were working. NO contingency options available.

IF you start an Instrument Approach you either land or CONDUCT THE PUBLISHED MISSED APPROACH.

If the conditions were IMC, how did they both get below MSA without starting an approach?

If they were both above the MSA who bloody cares.

Now where are those weapons of mass destruction DUBYA?
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Old 7th May 2008, 11:40
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He said both aircraft were in contact with the Melbourne control tower because the Launceston tower had closed.

Good pick up Dirty Pierre.

Even ANSA management do not allow an aircraft in the circuit area at YMLT to talk to YMML tower.

The guys in ML tower wouldn't know what to say to the aircraft in cira at LT anyway.

"Ah.... Ah.... contact Melbourne Centre....ah ah standby for frequency information....ah..ah..QANTAS 418 RWY 27 Line up behind the company 747 on final."
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Old 8th May 2008, 09:37
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Tasdevil.f27 says that VB used 32L for the 2nd approach and JQ was still above.
Thats the whole point. DJ was below JQ during the initial approach, then when DJ went round at some point they would have been above JQ (probably at above 1200-1500ft agl at opposite sides the aerodrome). It is how they then got to be below for the second approach that is the interesting aspect of this.
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Old 9th May 2008, 01:35
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Missy, where did you get the 1,200-1,500 ft figure from? Access to the radar tapes, if so you shouldn't be publishing it here, OR as I suspect just pluck it out of your @rse. Why can't an aircraft in trail of another climb through the leads altitude, (with appropriate separation). You have demonstrated an ability to read the YMLT approach chart but have no knowledge of the dynamics of the event or the circumstances in which they occurred. Why should the crew of the 2 aircraft be subject to your misguided allegations? Leave it to the responsible people who will deal in fact, not fanciful conjecture.
Already this thread has made it into the mainstream (albeit CRIKEY) media.
By the way Mr.Sandilands.. swish/swish, never heard it before, but it reminds me of a horses tail, and we all know what a horses tail is connected to, a horses......

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Old 9th May 2008, 05:15
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"By the way Mr.Sandilands.. swish/swish, never heard it before, but it reminds me of a horses tail, and we all know what a horses tail is connected to, a horses......"

An excellent point.
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Old 9th May 2008, 07:23
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Back Seat Driver said
Why should the crew of the 2 aircraft be subject to your misguided allegations?
And which particular allegations (misguided or otherwise) are you referring to? I don't think I have introduced any allegations to the debate.

I think there was a degree of luck with this reported airprox. I'd much have this as a learning experience for all concerned. It would be interesting to have this scenario in the SIM and see what pilots did.
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Old 9th May 2008, 08:26
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Quote Missy #38
With Virgin making an approach, Jetstar should have held at 4100ft (in case Virgin went round)
Do you know for a fact that JQ was holding while DJ carried out the approach. Perhaps JQ were still miles away. I don't know, I wasn't there.
Quote Missy
when Jetstar went round Virgin should have climbed to 4100ft
Why? Perhaps by then they were nowhere near the missed approach track.
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It is how they then got to be below for the second approach that is the interesting aspect of this.
Aircraft pass each other a zillion times a day, why is this 'interesting'?
Apparently the 2 aircraft were in proximity of some sort, but there is no evidence that the proximity was in any way less than that required. By making these statements you suggest that the crews erred otherwise you're just sprouting your own guesses. My point to you is Missy, I don't know what they should have done, because I wasn't there, and unless you were, you don't know either.

Lastly Missy
I think there was a degree of luck with this reported airprox
I've never met an airline pilot who left anything to luck. If you made that kind of accusation about any professional pilot, in a bar anywhere, you'd be drinking by yourself little Missy.
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Old 9th May 2008, 11:08
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BSD

Great post that reintroduces some perspective and reality about this so called "incident".

Comments by some of the contributors here defy belief.
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Old 9th May 2008, 11:15
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Some one said "you stay at 3200 as I'm at 4200" it may have been 3100 / 4100 it was one thous diff anyway.
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Old 26th May 2008, 15:36
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There'll be no one watching tonight. Tassie airspace (along with a few other sectors around the country) TIBA for 7 hours.

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Old 26th May 2008, 23:19
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Devil

I know.....but I can't help myself

Its time to trott out the map again, suggest you print a copy and take it with you

J

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Old 27th May 2008, 00:03
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We are the only western country that I know of (I fly regularly around Europe, US, Asia, Middle East) that allows 2 high capacity RPT jets to operate at the same airport without a published separation standard (note - saying "you stay at 4100, I'll maintain 3100" on the CTAF is not a published standard) Anyone see a problem here? With more 190's and possibly RJs coming into the country operating at regional airports, there is going to be more of these incidents - it's a statistical fact.

If you don't learn from other's mistakes, you are doomed to eventually make the same ones.
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Old 27th May 2008, 05:24
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Jaba,

You'd better contact AsA docs and get them to send out an ammendment form for your map. Scurvy D.Dog still not returned to service.
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Old 28th May 2008, 00:02
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Rog,
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Tis a bit like the Knight's scene from Monty Python's Holy Grail ....
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... funny, they seem ‘armless’ enough, most of the time
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.... hat .... coat .... bayonet .... DOOR!
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Old 28th May 2008, 03:46
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Hey Rog

I am sure he will in good time, however unless they resource his Tower with enough ATC's the result might be the same.......

J

PS aanyone see the news today?
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=570538
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