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Planes circling

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  • 24-07-2008 12:03pm
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    yomchi
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    Spotted 3 planes circling for about 45 mins last night, obviously waiting in a Q to land at Dublin airport, all commercial aircraft. First thoughts were the Radar is gone again!
    Anyone know why? It's not that common for Dublin airport I'd imagine?


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    robinph
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    Any flight into Dublin I've been on generally goes straight in, but I did have one where we did a few laps before landing I while ago which I thought was a bit odd at the time. I think it was before the problems they had with the radar or whatever though, and I was actually glad of the extra time to doze off before heading into work so had thought no more about it at the time.


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    highlydebased
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    Holding is not uncommon at Dublin at peak times......you might end up in a hold and not realise it as a pax lol


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    qnhhpa
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    There is regular holding at Dublin due to traffic volume. Last night Low Visibility Procedures were in place leading to larger spacing between landing aircraft and therefore holding. No aircraft held for more than 15 minutes.


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    robinph
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    Neon-Circles wrote: »
    Holding is not uncommon at Dublin at peak times......you might end up in a hold and not realise it as a pax lol

    I know how many times the plane should be banking on my regular flight into Dublin if it's going straight in, in either direction.

    Have they still got an extra delay added between landing at the moment though since the network failiure?


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    Tenger
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    robinph wrote: »
    I know how many times the plane should be banking on my regular flight into Dublin if it's going straight in, in either direction.

    Have they still got an extra delay added between landing at the moment though since the network failiure?
    The heavy fog yesterday disrupted the schedule as they had to operate under low-vis prcedures. The knock on effect was the during the day the normal sequence of arrivals was not spaced out so I'm sure they had several periods of busier than normal apporaches so some a/c got told to do laps of the Wicklow mts before coming in.


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    yomchi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭yomchi


    Cool, thanks for letting me know what the crack was. It was interesting watching them all tail around behind each other.


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    Steyr
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    Jon wrote: »
    Cool, thanks for letting me know what the crack was. It was interesting watching them all tail around behind each other.

    Also its called a Stack.:)


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    #9
    yomchi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,621 ✭✭✭yomchi


    :D


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    ian_m
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    An interactive diagram showing the theory behind a holding stack... Holding Stack


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