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Cleared for Takeoff
Anyone know when/where this was? The video just popped up on Twitter.
london city s runway is 5000ft i doubt a 777 was operating there...............London Gatwick last fall.
Edit: a description I found said Gatwick, but just remembered that Gatwick is out in the country, so that can’t be it…maybe London city airport?
It’s 6000 feet if either aircraft is a turbojet or weighs more than 12,500 lbs., AND the departing aircraft is airborneCamera perspective makes it look closer than it is. My understanding of ATC rules is that the landing aircraft can be cleared as long as the departing aircraft is at least 3,000 feet down the runway. It appears that was the case here, so not sure why the 737 decided to go around.
Yeah. There was a serious cross wind blowing from left to right there. But there may have been other factors involved. Like he knew the 77 was going to be turning left. Hard to tell with that ‘telephoto’ perspective, but I think the 73 could have been easily ‘above’ the 77’s flight path the whole time.Why would the 37 turn right across the wake from the 77? I’d be turning left.
The 737 hadn’t even crossed the threshold and the 777 was way down at the other end of the runway. The 737 would have been well above any wake turbulence produced by the 777.Yeah. There was a serious cross wind blowing from left to right there. But there may have been other factors involved. Like he knew the 77 was going to be turning left. Hard to tell with that ‘telephoto’ perspective, but I think the 73 could have been easily ‘above’ the 77’s flight path the whole time.
Yeah. What do you make of those runway markings. Never seen anything like that. There's no numbers. And where do you figure the camera was that took the video?The 737 hadn’t even crossed the threshold and the 777 was way down at the other end of the runway. The 737 would have been well above any wake turbulence produced by the 777.
Yeah. What do you make of those runway markings. Never seen anything like that. There's no numbers. And where do you figure the camera was that took the video?
I'm beginning to wonder if the spacing behind the 777 wasn't the reason he went around. Maybe he was just not in a stable condition to land.Seems like landing might have been safer than going around in this case. Whatever.
Wrong kind of airplane and it landed instead of going aroundYeah lots of foreshortening. Look how close the distance markers on the runway seem to be. The thing is longer than it appears. To many taxiways to be London City. That thing is essentially just a runway sitting out in a pond. It's not Gatwick either. Gatwick has displaced thesholds.
I think it's the same incident as this one... That would make it Osaka.