FFVS J22??

I loked at the prints in the tower just now and they are all from Hunting Aerofilms. Looking at Wikipedia it seems to suggest that the archive of aerial shots of Britain is available at the National Monuments Record in Swindon.

09R is straight ahead to 3000ft.
09L is climb to 3000ft, and turn left to track 040 on passing 1500ft (or threshold, whichever is later),
27R is climb to 3000ft, and turn right to track 310 on passing 1500ft (or the threshold……….),

27L is climb to 2000ft, turn left to track 150 on passing 1000ft (or the threshold…….).

When TOGA is applied, many types have problems not climbing past 2000ft.

We tend to have between 30-40 go arounds per month on average. Probably 80 to 90% of those will be ATC initiated.

AFAIK only one Spanish ATCO got that much. There is a lot of disinformation flying about on this subject.

The vast majority of them get nowhere near that amount.. Yes, they compare favourably to the rest of Europe, but I certainly wouldn’t like to be in their shoes now with only three or four days off a month and split shifts (doing 2200-0700 night shift, then back in at 1400 that same day until 2200).

Hopefully this current situation will result in legal working time limits such as we have for ATCOs in this country.

1L,

If you pull up to a T junction to turn left, where you need to ‘give way to’ traffic, and there’s a car doing 30mph 500m to your right, do you stay where you are and wait, or do you judge that you can pull out and accelerate to normal speed without causing any hazard to the approaching car because it’s so far away?

Or crossing oncoming traffic to turn right?….Do you wait until you cannot see any oncoming cars at all, even though you have good visibility ahead? Yes, you must ‘give way to’ oncoming traffic, but that means you make a judgement as to when it’s safe to cross and go, not just wait for every car to pass you no matter how far away it is.

Yes, I was in the tower at the time, I’d just transferred the UAE4 to Air Departures. Flight crew informed us of a security issue; they took it seriously, we took it seriously, and we attempted to ensure as good an outcome as possible for the greatest number of people.

I didn’t slag anyone off.

Please do let me know what any one of you would do if you were an air traffic controller and a pilot of an aircraft carrying 300 passengers tells you that there’s someone down the back who is threatening the safety of the aircraft…..

Yeah, I’m sure you’d all sit back, put your feet up and assume it was a hoax. 😎

Where’s the report?

A lot of assumptions here, and “it’s reported that……”