A318 lands at London City for first time
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The A318 is not yet approved,that is the reason for the trials.
A list of all aircraft cleared for scheduled operation is here----
http://www.lcacc.org/aircraft/index.html#Other
A list of all aircraft cleared for scheduled operation is here----
http://www.lcacc.org/aircraft/index.html#Other
Bear Behind
Yes it did. It taxied to the alpha exit, then little further. It then shut down and was a tug pushed it, tail in, next to the fire station where it sat for about an hour or so. From my vantage point I saw lots of people milling about it, presumably Airbus bods with the LCY people and the CAA judging by the Flight report. Lots of them disappeared on board and didn't reappear so I guess went back to TLS with the aircraft.
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Sorry I'd have moved it if I'd known it was getting in the way. More to the point, aren't there problems with the size of the 318 at LCY, vis a vis if you park it nose in to the terminal then because of its height the tail infringes the required runway clearance?
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If anyone is interested there's an article about steep approaches in the A318 in the April edition of IFALPA News - which you can find on the IFALPA website...
http://www.ifalpa.org/if_news/IFALPANews06NWS011.pdf
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http://www.ifalpa.org/if_news/IFALPANews06NWS011.pdf
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I was about to write a posting claiming that the author of this thread must be on some mad smack until I realised it was about the A318 and not the other airbus in the news at the mo the A380!!! Man I should not log onto this thing when I have just woken up!
