:confused: I live around 20 miles north of Manchester and only see the odd flight inbound to Man, however last night was strange, at around 18:30 I saw a Balkan A320 flyover my house and head over towards Winter hill in Bolton, as he went over a SAS MD0-80 followed him very close. They did 2 complete circles again over my house and towards winter hill. This was then proceeded by a Qatar A330 and Emirates A330 again doing the same pattern.
This continued for at least 2 hours with aircraft after aircraft, never in five years of living up here have I seen so many aircraft. Also to cap it off I saw the Beluga passing over inbound to Chester. Anybody got any ideas? All I can think of is there were some bad weather and that they used this airspace for a holding pattern.
By: wysiwyg - 17th August 2004 at 22:24
[QUOTE=Jeanske_SN]What aircraft has fuel for flying in a hold for two hours?[QUOTE]
If you are within weight limits there’s nothing to stop you from taking whatever fuel you need to hold. If low vis procedures are in force (Cat 2 or 3) we are supposed to plan to arrive with an absolute minimum of 45 minutes holding fuel bur can up that figure as much as we wish. It would be silly to fly half way round the world and then divert for the sake of a few tonnes of fuel when you knew the weather was going to be pants.
By: topjet330 - 17th August 2004 at 13:46
the weather was very bad over Manchester yesterday so maybe this was why!
By: Jeanske_SN - 17th August 2004 at 12:30
What aircraft has fuel for flying in a hold for two hours? Or wasn’t it constantly the same aircraft? Why not land at Liverpool or something?
By: Moondance - 17th August 2004 at 09:39
There is a published hold at ROSUN (354/19 nms from MCT VOR) – lot of CBs around yesterday, so perhaps aircraft holding while weather cleared?
And come to think of it, there was a large and slow moving CB over the southern part of the Peak District yesterday evening, probably making inbound routings via TNT/DAYNE unuseable.
By: Bmused55 - 17th August 2004 at 08:32
Perhaps in a holding pattern due to some sort of upset at the airport?
The delay having a knock on effect with later traffic?
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