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Have pax'ed into LHI on many occaisions, she's a wild old landing with everything going right. Can't have been easy on one engine. All praise and admiration for the crew involved.
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Life rafts to be carried if aircraft plans to venture more than either 100nm from 'land' or a distance equal to 30 mins at normal cruising speed, whichever is less.
Originally Posted by PA31
Life rafts to be carried if aircraft plans to venture more than either 100nm from 'land' or a distance equal to 30 mins at normal cruising speed, whichever is less.
Why the exemption? LHI is under 400 nm from the mainland and I would have thought that a Dash-100/200 would TAS better then 200kts in normal cruise?
In any case, the reason for the exemption is known really only to flight ops. Something about the risk analysis showing that the chances of both engine failing and the time taken for AMSA to get there doesn't warrant the rafts carriage. Hey, they can fit another four revenue seats on there now!
Originally Posted by Dragun
Nope, 186kts is the published figure.
I must be missing something here. Liferafts are required >400nm from land. SYD-LHI is 423nm (Google Earth). At the worst point, you'll be 206nm from land (not considering flying up the coast to PMQ first). I can't see that liferafts would ever be required SYD-LHI in an 20.7.1b certified aircraft.
, twin turbine applies to this situation
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Something about the risk analysis showing that the chances of both engine failing and the time taken for AMSA to get there doesn't warrant the rafts carriage
Yea sorry, 186kts is the single engine cruise speed and I was, for some reason, referring to EDTO (ETOPS) which obviously has nothing to do with this. Disregard.
As for the life raft "exemption" - you know what, now that I think about it, I can't see why they're required either. Maybe in the past, CASA has just applied the clause in CAO 20.11 that says they can require their carriage regardless and somehow Qlink talked them out of it.
Sorry for the stuff up, should've read things more closely on a Sunday morning.
As for the life raft "exemption" - you know what, now that I think about it, I can't see why they're required either. Maybe in the past, CASA has just applied the clause in CAO 20.11 that says they can require their carriage regardless and somehow Qlink talked them out of it.
Sorry for the stuff up, should've read things more closely on a Sunday morning.
