(QUOTE=WebPilot)I guess that both airliners and pricey display aircraft like Hunters have to earn their living[/QUOTE]

I don’t think the mention of civil airliners and display aircraft in the same sentence is appropriate. A UK registered civil airliner has a CAA approved Minimum Equipment List (MEL), which allows the aircraft to despatch with certain, specified, unserviceabilities. If it doesn’t feature in the MEL, (or the Configuration Deviation List – CDL) then the aircraft is going nowhere!

Most allowable defects in the MEL have a time limit (Rectification Interval). in which they MUST be fixed, which can vary from a single flight to get the aircraft to a maintenance facility, or up to 120 days for something more trivial and less safety critical.

You are, quite simply, breaking the law by being ‘under the influence’ on board a British registered aeroplane.

Idiots!

And the press always report aviation stories SO accurately.

I presume that’s the NOTAM that has been posted on the other forum, so the times will be GMT (or should I say UTC these days), so it will be 1230-1305 BST.
Forecast is not too bad, just depends if a shower/thunderstorm is lurking at the time.
TAF EGCC 040915Z 041019 21012KT 9999 SCT018 SCT040 TEMPO 1019 6000 SHRA BKN018CB PROB40 TEMPO 1019 3000 TSGR BKN010CB=

This is awful for both EDI and BHX, as they will have lost more route(

Slightly more awful news for the staff of Duo!

UK minima are quoted in feet for Decision Height, and metres for Runway Visual Range (RVR), so in the UK absolute minina are :

Cat 1 – 200ft DH, 550m RVR
Cat 2 – 100ft DH, 300m RVR
Cat 3a – 50ft DH, 200m RVR
Cat 3b – 0ft DH, 75m RVR

Different companies may have different procedures, but for us, anything less than Cat 1 is a mandatory autoland (and Cat 2 & 3 use Radio Altitude for minima).
Leeds IS Cat 3b on 32, but only Cat 1 on 14 – never done it for real, but apparently an autoland on 32 is entertaining, as the runway is sloping away from underneath the aircraft as it (automatically) attempts to find the ground!!
Low Vis Procedures (LVP) must be in force for Low Vis Operations (LVO ie autoland) and as Wannabe says, this involves aircraft holding at holding points further from the runway, to minimise any possible disturbance to the ILS signal.

Re: Re: Re: Hereford Spitfires. – TD135

Originally posted by Mark12
Moondance

Here is a shot of TD135 at Tynemouth on 25 July 1960. Although on arrival it had been in silver finish with its original 604 Sqd. codes NG-U, by this time it had been camouflaged by the cadets.

Superb! – never seen a shot of TD135 in-situ at Tynemouth. Many thanks.

Originally posted by Britannia
Not great but I like the way I got 3 EZY’s together

Like that one a lot – the more unusual shot can be far more interesting!