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Change of undies required in Melb TWR today after John Travolta's missed approach?

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Old 13th Nov 2010, 00:15
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Change of undies required in Melb TWR today after John Travolta's missed approach?
16 ILS arrival with a 300ft AGL cloud base. Broke out of cloud to the right of the small church at Bulla, probably saw the tower in his little windscreen!
Taps opened, back into cloud, no one saw that!!
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Dunno about the tower, the crane being used to build the new one might be a different story.
Saw a 727 go around on 09 one dark foggy night that went straight over the top of the tower, which has to be a km from the center-line .
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one must then question the currency of the crew to be that far out of tracking tolerance for an ILS...
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Forgot about the crane.

If you go here, you can see the track. Plug in 11.15am and he is on the ILS.

WebTrak: Melbourne International Airport
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Forgot about the crane.

If you go here, you can see the track. Plug in 11.15am and he is on the ILS.

WebTrak: Melbourne International Airport
He certainly made a meal of that last couple of miles!
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Oh good he got it right the second time. Well done.
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Got to wonder if that aircraft departing 16 interfered with the LOC signal?
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Anyone know when JT's flying into Perth?
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Where is the media beat up about this? Surely an incident as serious as a missed approach is worth 3-4 days of safety concerns.


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At least they referred to him as First Officer JT today on Seven news
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The radar tags showed nothing less than 300+ Metres, I wonder if Capt Fathom has hit the nail on the head?
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I note that the unscheduled flight over Keilor sent the noise monitoring station there soaring to 72dB.

No doubt East Keilor resident Ms van den Berg of the 'Close Essendon Airport Campaign' will probably blame Essendon again....
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Why are you all assuming JT was flying it?
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I note that the unscheduled flight over Keilor sent the noise monitoring station there soaring to 72dB.
How about we all chip in for the JetA1 and get hime doing laps of the city doing scenics for all those locals who complain the airport. Not above 3000 JT
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Regardless of who was flying things sure did get out of shape down there near the mimima...
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Anyone know when JT's flying into Perth?
He was due in today, but he had to head home as missus has gone into labor.

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Why is he visiting? Is it for Qantas PR in light of the A380 incident recently?
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Why is he visiting? Is it for Qantas PR in light of the A380 incident recently?
Something to do with QANTAS's birthday I think, & also probably something to do with Oprah's visit next month.

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Telethon
He was visiting to appear on Telethon. Was hoping to see the B707 in Perth today but I've now realised why it wasn't there courtesy of DF.


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He WAS scheduled to appear on Perth CH 7's 'TELETHON' CHARITY Fund - Raising Program this evening (Sun) Perth time as the 'Star Guest', and to attend a 'Civic Reception' put on by the Perth Lord Mayoress - and be presented with the 'Key To The City' for his efforts....

I guess he's half way (?) home again by now....

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