748F into Wellcamp
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Then, as RM said, you have to contend with the PAPI.
Has anyone gone to the bother of reporting the PAPI anomaly through official channels so that a calibration aircraft can conduct a proper flight test on it?
Has anyone gone to the bother of reporting the PAPI anomaly through official channels so that a calibration aircraft can conduct a proper flight test on it?
The operator refused to use a flight test to check the lights.
This was not a one off event it occurred EVERY single time I flew in there and used RWY12. I reported it multiple times. NOTHING changed. So eventually I just briefed to ignore them completely and stopped bothering with putting in reports.
By the way I have some interesting pics of the threshold of RWY 30 where the 747 landed, when I get a chance I will put them up. Not exactly what I would call the touchdown zone.....
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I haven't flown in there personally to see the PAPI issue, but I'm interested to know at what point does the PAPI become useless? ie..
-Is the problem the same for the RNAV-Z and RNAV-Y procedure? (one is offset, the other isn't)
-If you are on the published 3 degree CDA profile per the approach plate do you have an on-slope indication all the way to TCH? If not, when does it start diverging? Are you on-slope at MDA?
Cheers
PPP
-Is the problem the same for the RNAV-Z and RNAV-Y procedure? (one is offset, the other isn't)
-If you are on the published 3 degree CDA profile per the approach plate do you have an on-slope indication all the way to TCH? If not, when does it start diverging? Are you on-slope at MDA?
Cheers
PPP
Freighters to fly weekly from Wellcamp
Bit of a milk run but Cathay must think it is worth A try. The owners of Wellcamp have done well to achieve this in 2 years from startup.
Cathay Pacific to start weekly Wellcamp freighter service | Australian Aviation
Cathay Pacific to start weekly Wellcamp freighter service | Australian Aviation
The Wagner family will be crying in their beer, when Badgery Creek airport is up and running in a few years time!
Now lets see, it took over a century for a new Redcliffe rail line to be built and opened by the State Government.
How long have the Feds been working on Badgery Creek?
Bottums Up
... when Badgery Creek airport is up and running in a few years time!
The Wagner family have built something from scratch in a very limited time frame, yet our elected Canberra fools are still running around in circles talking up the Badgery Creek dream!
Perhaps we could get the Wagner family to run Australia?
Perhaps we could get the Wagner family to run Australia?
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Duck Pilot - Great video on the Komo airfield - in fact, airport is probably a more precise description. Thanks for the link to the story - as an engineer/earthmover, I really enjoyed it.
I trust Wagners make a go of Wellcamp. Any substantial infrastructure that improves Australia's trading capacity can only be good for the long term.
Far better than the vast amount of taxpayers money pi$$ed up against the wall on useless Govt expenditure, that returns absolutely nothing to the nation.
I trust Wagners make a go of Wellcamp. Any substantial infrastructure that improves Australia's trading capacity can only be good for the long term.
Far better than the vast amount of taxpayers money pi$$ed up against the wall on useless Govt expenditure, that returns absolutely nothing to the nation.
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KLM run a daily 747 combi from Amsterdam to Hong Kong. How much of a stretch would it be to continue onto Wellcamp, so Wellcamp could also offer passenger services to the whole world via Hong Kong ?
How much of a stretch would it be to continue onto Wellcamp, so Wellcamp could also offer passenger services to the whole world via Hong Kong ?
