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Forum: Rumours & News

1st Feb 2024, 22:07

Replies: 445

Lufty at SFO

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Posted By Del Prado

Is there enough space to resequence a go around?...

Is there enough space to resequence a go around? How does SFO find a gap for them?

Forum: Rumours & News

16th Dec 2023, 20:49

Replies: 445

Lufty at SFO

Views: 129,237

Posted By Del Prado

Looks like it happened 15 years ago and the...

Looks like it happened 15 years ago and the controller retired a few months later.

Forum: Rumours & News

13th Dec 2023, 08:56

Replies: 445

Lufty at SFO

Views: 129,237

Posted By Del Prado

Of course ATC have already established wake...

Of course ATC have already established wake separation, but once cleared for visual approach the responsibility for wake separation passes to the pilot.

Thats what the book says, that’s what...

Forum: Rumours & News

5th Dec 2023, 09:11

Replies: 445

Lufty at SFO

Views: 129,237

Posted By Del Prado

PukinDog, thanks for your response. You...

PukinDog, thanks for your response.

You reference minimum separation/wake spacing but SFO don’t operate to minimum spacing, they provide gaps for departures from the crossing runways. Look at the...

Forum: Rumours & News

4th Dec 2023, 07:18

Replies: 445

Lufty at SFO

Views: 129,237

Posted By Del Prado

I’ve handled many fuel maydays, double figures in...

I’ve handled many fuel maydays, double figures in just one incident/closure, none of the captains were demoted or sacked.
What sort of strange blame culture do you operate under?

Forum: Rumours & News

30th Nov 2023, 19:09

Replies: 445

Lufty at SFO

Views: 129,237

Posted By Del Prado

Pukindog, some very long posts on here. I’ve just...

Pukindog, some very long posts on here. I’ve just got a couple of questions for you.

One of ATC’s primary roles is to issue accurate onward clearance/approach times or at least an accurate...

Forum: Rumours & News

28th Nov 2023, 12:01

Replies: 445

Lufty at SFO

Views: 129,237

Posted By Del Prado

Reminds me of an exchange at LHR many moons ago. ...

Reminds me of an exchange at LHR many moons ago.
”EIN12A, report British Airways 737 ahead in sight.”
EIN - ”We have them in sight.”
BAW - “Er, we’re in cloud.”
EIN - “Yes, but we saw you go in...

Forum: Rumours & News

28th Nov 2023, 10:28

Replies: 445

Lufty at SFO

Views: 129,237

Posted By Del Prado

DLH told them company SOPs prohibited visual...

DLH told them company SOPs prohibited visual separation. SFO didn’t give them an accurate delay of when they could expect an ILS with radar separation. They gave them 10 mins, after nearly 15 they...

Forum: Rumours & News

27th Nov 2023, 21:00

Replies: 445

Lufty at SFO

Views: 129,237

Posted By Del Prado

There have been many visual approaches flown at...

There have been many visual approaches flown at night that haven’t ended well. Off the top of my head there was the KAL (at Guam?) and one in Italy which ended up with the ATC serving time in jail...

Forum: Rumours & News

27th Nov 2023, 09:54

Replies: 445

Lufty at SFO

Views: 129,237

Posted By Del Prado

Thats not quite how it works. Does it say on...

Thats not quite how it works.
Does it say on the approach chart “Arriving aircraft must accept visual separation”?
The flight is planned according to the charts. There are charts for an ILS...

Forum: Rumours & News

24th Nov 2023, 10:29

Replies: 445

Lufty at SFO

Views: 129,237

Posted By Del Prado

I still struggle to see why they couldn’t have...

I still struggle to see why they couldn’t have given the Lufthansa a 3 mile separation ‘bubble’ by increasing the gap on one runway by a mile and vectoring the Lufthansa in the middle of that gap for...

Forum: Rumours & News

20th Nov 2023, 13:39

Replies: 445

Lufty at SFO

Views: 129,237

Posted By Del Prado

There’s the stats from the FAA, from the CAA,...

There’s the stats from the FAA, from the CAA, from Heathrow Airport Limited (which form part of their Fiduciary responsibilities), from SFO (which are probably part of their stock market filings...

Forum: Rumours & News

20th Nov 2023, 12:10

Replies: 445

Lufty at SFO

Views: 129,237

Posted By Del Prado

Here’s a list of Heathrow’s stats for 2023 so...

Here’s a list of Heathrow’s stats for 2023 so far. Aircraft movements taken from Heathrow Airport website.

January 2023 34,961
February 2023 32,503
March 2023 36,671
April 2023 37,249
May 2023...

Forum: Rumours & News

20th Nov 2023, 11:40

Replies: 445

Lufty at SFO

Views: 129,237

Posted By Del Prado

look at the post by Request Orbit 2 above your...

look at the post by Request Orbit 2 above your post. They have helpfully provided CAA and FAA figures for the two airports.

Do you have some verifiable figures that prove SFO has double the...

Forum: Rumours & News

15th Nov 2023, 16:42

Replies: 445

Lufty at SFO

Views: 129,237

Posted By Del Prado

Anyone know what spacing they use at SFO? A...

Anyone know what spacing they use at SFO?

A landing rate of 30 per hour per runway would imply an average of 5 and half mile spacing. 6 or 7 miles would be enough to fit in aircraft that couldn’t...

Forum: Rumours & News

15th Nov 2023, 08:15

Replies: 445

Lufty at SFO

Views: 129,237

Posted By Del Prado

I’ve had a British pilot describe an RNAV...

I’ve had a British pilot describe an RNAV approach as “****” on the RT before. He wasn’t swearing AT me, not insulting me, just using it as an adverb.

I never said Germans don’t know what the F...

Forum: Rumours & News

15th Nov 2023, 06:34

Replies: 445

Lufty at SFO

Views: 129,237

Posted By Del Prado

Wake turbulence separation is applied by time...

Wake turbulence separation is applied by time rather than distance. Minimum radar separation for non vortex pairs remains 2.5nm but the next step is to apply non vortex spacing via time also...

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