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Lack of fuel forces Qantas jet to land in heavy fog
From News: Lack of fuel forces Qantas jet to land in heavy fog | NEWS.com.au
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Re: Lack of fuel forces Qantas jet to land in heavy fog
This is interesting. What is the alternate for Perth? RAAF Pearce? But this would be fogged in too, but okay for other emergencies. KGI runway is under 6000ft. GET, 6500ft? and these are both far away. Albany also under 6000ft. I mean its a long way to Adelaide!
Apparently the alternate is Learmonth...er thats 2 hours north...makes you wonder. Last edited by maninblack; 21st August 2007 at 06:45 PM. |
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I think Pearce would be too small - large military aircraft have been known to use Perth. There are not lots of airports in WA where you can land a widebody. ATSB report: 200605473 |
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Having said that the lack of facilities could have been interesting. Also Pearce often has a different weather pattern than Perth.
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Re: Lack of fuel forces Qantas jet to land in heavy fog
Technically, a flight should carry enough fuel to get to its planned destination and then still be able to make it to a suitable alternate airport. So even though it often known well before arrival that a diversion is required and a PER-destined flight could divert to Learmonth (if from North) or ADL (if from East), this would not help if PER suddenly became unavailable as the flight was on final approach, such as may be the case if the flight ahead was unable to clear the runway (perhaps due to a wheels-up landing or some other incident).
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Or when circumstances change suddenly as you point out. RAAF Pearce has a main runway over 8000ft and could handle widebody aircraft in an emergency but doesn't have many of the sophisticated technical systems Perth has...and yes the B1 has visited there. Here is a bit of interesting reading. 200201556 |
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