Hold ups at EGCC MAN
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Hold ups at EGCC MAN
Hi Ppruner's
Today the 11th Dec at appox 1400hrs, the WX is perfect, Gin clear skies just the thing for flying, is that why everything MAN bound is stacking up, I stood and watched a V/large A/c 4 eng job circle the "Rosen" area, and then head up north, any body any idea's about this, had it been cloudy we wouldnt have seen all this odd activity!
Today the 11th Dec at appox 1400hrs, the WX is perfect, Gin clear skies just the thing for flying, is that why everything MAN bound is stacking up, I stood and watched a V/large A/c 4 eng job circle the "Rosen" area, and then head up north, any body any idea's about this, had it been cloudy we wouldnt have seen all this odd activity!
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Interesting morning. 
Most people took the departure delays with good humour, others less so.
Instead of almost no inbound delays and an arrival rate of 32+ per hour, we had up and down viz and an arrival rate of between 10 and 15 per hour. Fitting departures into these gaps gives you less than 30, more often nearer 25 per hour taking into account missed approaches and about 20 diversions out.
Less than half the traffic flow with 3 times the workload.
Thanks for bearing with it!
Most people took the departure delays with good humour, others less so.
Instead of almost no inbound delays and an arrival rate of 32+ per hour, we had up and down viz and an arrival rate of between 10 and 15 per hour. Fitting departures into these gaps gives you less than 30, more often nearer 25 per hour taking into account missed approaches and about 20 diversions out.
Less than half the traffic flow with 3 times the workload.
Thanks for bearing with it!
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Good Lord!!!
If that's perfect weather Vfrpilotpb I'd hate to see it when it's decidedly dodgy nay awful
I thought we did mighty well today considering the constant and massive waves of fog that seemed to stream over the airfield. As soon as the bank of fog cleared off again, what seemed like 500 aircraft tried to hurtle their way to or from Manch at any one time - chaos was narrowly and skilfully avoided - as my colleagues will happily testify
Very strange weather today. One minute it was clearing and literally the next minute we're back to 250m RVR's all 'round
We got shut of alot of traffic to Leeds who seemed to be "above" the fog, Castle Don and I think a couple of others went to Birmingham.
Not often we have to offload traffic to Leeds due to Wx!
And for the first time I think since R2 graced us with it's opening - we had a holding situation at MIRSI, ROSUN and DAYNE. Just shows how much R2 has improved things
If that's perfect weather Vfrpilotpb I'd hate to see it when it's decidedly dodgy nay awful
I thought we did mighty well today considering the constant and massive waves of fog that seemed to stream over the airfield. As soon as the bank of fog cleared off again, what seemed like 500 aircraft tried to hurtle their way to or from Manch at any one time - chaos was narrowly and skilfully avoided - as my colleagues will happily testify
Very strange weather today. One minute it was clearing and literally the next minute we're back to 250m RVR's all 'round
We got shut of alot of traffic to Leeds who seemed to be "above" the fog, Castle Don and I think a couple of others went to Birmingham.
Not often we have to offload traffic to Leeds due to Wx!
And for the first time I think since R2 graced us with it's opening - we had a holding situation at MIRSI, ROSUN and DAYNE. Just shows how much R2 has improved things
