hey,
I was on an easyJet A319 heading for Belfast yesterday on the westerly runway out of Stansted. That was about the 3rd or 4th time I’ve flown out of stansted and each time I am surprised by the low climb out. The aircraft always seems to get to about 5000ft and then stays at that altitude until nearly birmingham before then climing to cruising altitude.
Whats the specific reason for this? obviously its airsapce clearance. Are the aircraft staying below the northerly approaches the LHR?
The ‘low level’ flight gave me some nice views of the English countyside, its amazing how flying reminds me of GoogleEarth! I found myself trying to zoom in on the Airship Hangars at Cardington!! :rolleyes:
Mr F.
By: andrewm - 1st August 2006 at 11:36
STAR STandard ARrival
Standard Terminal Arrival Route is the correct term
By: Flex 35 - 31st July 2006 at 11:22
clearedtoland is quite correct.
ATC (especially around the extremely busy airspace of London) sometimes can’t give a climb straight away due to reasons clearedtoland explained. Inbound traffic going into STN, inbound traffic going into LHR – this all affects when further climb can be given.
It doesn’t just happen at London Airports either, at MAN (when the 06s are in use) and aircraft are flying a LISTO departure most crew are told to “maintain 5000 feet on reaching”, and more often then not they don’t get further climb until another 10-15 miles. This is due to the approach stack going right under the SID. This happens at large airfields and busy airspace, I’m only using MAN as I’m familiar with the airport and procedures. This is what happens at STN, and what you experienced yesterday.
Hoped that helped a bit! 😀
Flex
By: clearedtoland - 31st July 2006 at 10:55
Airspace capacity you were following the SID which is capped at 5000ft due to interaction with other SIDS/STARS you might be left out of the mix for a while especially if its very busy.
SID Standard Instrument Departure
STAR STandard ARrival
Sign In
July 31, 2006 at 9:44 am