Flying airway UL55 over high terrain of Alps
Thread Starter
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 20
Likes: 1
From: Seoul
Flying airway UL55 over high terrain of Alps
Hi. I am from Korean LCC.
I am scheduled to fly our new B737-8 airplane from Toulouse, France to Seoul, Korea.
The planned route is to fly along the airway UL55 eastbound. (South France to North of Italy)
Having plotted the route on the chart, we just found we must fly over Alps area.
My company does not fly to European airspace so we do not have any published high terrain escape procedure for this area.
I hope to get some help from you guys based in Europe.
Do European companies have published high terrain escape procedures for this area? (For one engine drift down, and cabin depressurization)
Thank you!
I am scheduled to fly our new B737-8 airplane from Toulouse, France to Seoul, Korea.
The planned route is to fly along the airway UL55 eastbound. (South France to North of Italy)
Having plotted the route on the chart, we just found we must fly over Alps area.
My company does not fly to European airspace so we do not have any published high terrain escape procedure for this area.
I hope to get some help from you guys based in Europe.
Do European companies have published high terrain escape procedures for this area? (For one engine drift down, and cabin depressurization)
Thank you!
Joined: Mar 2012
Posts: 2,605
Likes: 154
From: Having a margarita on the beach
Hi. I am from Korean LCC.
I am scheduled to fly our new B737-8 airplane from Toulouse, France to Seoul, Korea.
The planned route is to fly along the airway UL55 eastbound. (South France to North of Italy)
Having plotted the route on the chart, we just found we must fly over Alps area.
My company does not fly to European airspace so we do not have any published high terrain escape procedure for this area.
I hope to get some help from you guys based in Europe.
Do European companies have published high terrain escape procedures for this area? (For one engine drift down, and cabin depressurization)
Thank you!
I am scheduled to fly our new B737-8 airplane from Toulouse, France to Seoul, Korea.
The planned route is to fly along the airway UL55 eastbound. (South France to North of Italy)
Having plotted the route on the chart, we just found we must fly over Alps area.
My company does not fly to European airspace so we do not have any published high terrain escape procedure for this area.
I hope to get some help from you guys based in Europe.
Do European companies have published high terrain escape procedures for this area? (For one engine drift down, and cabin depressurization)
Thank you!
THAT should help.
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 2,337
Likes: 821
From: Tring, UK
With the Alps, wherever you are, you’re only about 10mins jet flying time from MORAs < 10,000’, 15mins worst case. Drift down is not really an issue, depressurisation needs a plan but it’s pretty obvious from the charts what to do. The UL55 route has ~100nm above 10k, so you’re not going to run out of oxygen (especially with no pax) before you can fully descend, especially if you put a critical point 50nm in...
