WIZZ AIR Skiathos vid
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WIZZ AIR Skiathos vid
Not sure if posted previously but your thoughts on this insanity?
WIZZ AIR SKIATHOS - Daily Record
My triple would have left its tyres in the sea….
WIZZ AIR SKIATHOS - Daily Record
My triple would have left its tyres in the sea….
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From the outside it looks like pure showboating. Removing any margin for error, disgraceful.
First of all it wasn't a tripple 7, so a pointless comment. Secondly nothing particularly out of the ordinary for this airport (check out the hundreds of videos). Thirdly wrong forum for this sensationalist stuff!
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Jonty, but they should be. SOPs are there for good reason and performance calculations allow for touching down at the correct place. All well and good until there's an accident then the book would be thrown at the pilots via the FDR.
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I would hazard a guess from the many youtube videos showing shallow approaches/low TCH that the issue isn't showboating (although it may be a factor). The issue is more likely a lack of faith in the performance figures resulting in landing short to get more runway to stop in. A feel good factor rather than wilful disobedience towards SOPs.
Why would pilot's have a lack of faith in the performance figures? Is it because they are so wildly conservative as to be almost meaningless? Or are they of little practical value even if they were more accurate; who comes to a complete stop on a runway ever during normal line operations? No-one unless it's a form of emergency.
Why would pilot's have a lack of faith in the performance figures? Is it because they are so wildly conservative as to be almost meaningless? Or are they of little practical value even if they were more accurate; who comes to a complete stop on a runway ever during normal line operations? No-one unless it's a form of emergency.
I wonder what injuries the locals would have sustained should they have conducted a missed approach over that sand.
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I make it about 12 foot from the wheels to the ground at 136m from the piano keys / 300m from the TDZ markings - and there's a displaced threshold on 01 for a reason.
Interestingly the runway is pixellated on the last Google Earth images. Older ones still ok.
Interestingly the runway is pixellated on the last Google Earth images. Older ones still ok.
It isn't the fault of pilots that airlines are wanting them to fly bigger and faster aircraft onto runways originally built for much smaller aircraft. If anything the road in front of the threshold should be blocked off and an extension to the bitumen made all the way to the water. Maybe a boom gate system to stop traffic passing, or block off the road entirely? No pedestrians or spotters at all, it only takes a slightly low approach and a bit of thrust out the back for a serious injury.
