Dangerous UK Airports

Well, I would say that Heathrow is fine. I also used to work in Air traffic and I know the excellent standard of ATC in this country.

I would say the toughest airfields are the Channel Islands with the strong winds. But, I would say the worst for near misses is White Waltham. I have nearly come a croppppper in there many a time with the amount of aircraft and lack of ATC and aircraft without a radio. It’s madness on a nice Sunday afternoon.

Spare a thought for Innsbruck – wouldn’t fancy an emergency landing there – Nice!

no Probs LBARULES- You can often get some short notice arrvials data from a couple of airport employees – ones an ATC officer and the other is Operations Planner for the airport

Dundee is not that bad an airport. I have had a couple of flying lessons from there and its been okay. Great views from above though.

thanks for the address unfortunately i was a bit busy today otherwise i would have been straight up there!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lba2/ – hope its useful – things re a bit quiet at the moment – but will liven up in a couple of days – if you fancy a wonder up this afternoon theres a E135 of Eastern operating in from Faro on a private charter

no im not could you post the address to it here?cheers

i dont think it has an official name – not sure tho! – are you a a member of the lba2 Yahoogroup?

so thats the official name of it… wow i always knew it as the layby at the side of a road hehehe p.s my names tom

Yea i know what u mean LBARULES – Its worse on the 14 Cemetry car park usually – btw whats your name?

leeds bradford is very awkward eg last friday 25/04 about 5 flight were cancelled coming into lba and the other 1 was delayed indefinitly.surley the staff must get sick and tired of the fog you can hardly see in front of your eyes. i was on the grass at the side of the tunnel with myt g-pids taking off right in front of me and i couldnt see it so it must be very awkward for the pilots

yea i agree with the statements made there about LBA. The fact is the main probelms are SHORT runway, HILLTOP possition exposing to FOG, 14/32 orientated runway which leads to CROSSWINDS, and the lack of CAT3 ILS on 14, which is prodominantly the rwy in use when Fog occurs. CAT3 on 14, and an extra few hundred feet on 14/32 would probably further reduce this number of Diversions – anyway we dont see Teeside, Manchester, Humberside or East Mids complaining when we send a/c that way!

btw moondance i take it you fly for BA?

Originally posted by Moondance
but anecdotally I would suggest that LBA probably has more weather diversions than most UK airports

I would say that phrase is correct if you stick the word ‘mainland’ between ‘UK’ and ‘airports’.

regards
wys

I don’t think runway lengths and traffic should be the major concerns. Don’t forget, air traffic control can make an airport “dangerous”. Was it Tenerife in the 70s where poor communication between ATC and two aircraft led to a disaster where two 747s collided?

Although this was due to the unco-operative pilot of one aircraft, no effort was made to tell him to stop I believe?

Can any of the big widebodies take off with full fuel load Preston?

no problem mate – it was just the secondary runway information you had!

Just a little differance between LHR and Plymouth then!

I stand corrected – I got my data from the database in the Airline game, which has been known to get the facts wrong from time to time!

I had been working on –

PLH – 759m
LCY – 1,508m

For comparison

LHR – 3,902m

well i wouldn’t sat that – the charts i have state

LCY – Rwy 10/28 Total Rwy length 1199m x30
PLY – Rwy 13/31 Total Rwy length 1161m x30
Rwy 06/24 Total Rwy length 752m x26

hope its of some use Mongu!

How about Plymouth?

In terms of runway length, it makes LCY look like Andrews Air Force Base!

yea more of less Softlad – 14 has a slightly higher approach slope – i believe he came in high and fastand touched down near the 09/27 intersection.

btw Pembo, Tristars aint too big for NM really – we get DC-10 and B747 movements every now and again – usually when LUFC are in Europe.

best i can remember was an EI A330 training – his first stop was LBA and he was going to head up to Prestwick after to bash the circ for a couple of hours, so he prob had 3 or 4 hours fuel on board which i didn’t think would be a problem. Neway on finals he captain didn’t look very impressed and said we’ll never put her in there, they did in the end, but he had his doubts!