"Flight Express 312 . . .

mtsu_av8er

mtsu_av8er

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. . . Winds are 150 at 24, Gusting to 47. Multiple aircraft reporting continuous moderate turbulence all the way down the final. An MD-80 reported windshear of +/-20 knots to touchdown, and company traffic ahead of you reported +/-30 knots. Runway 20L, cleared to land."

Ummm, ok!:eek:
 
We got pounded last night as well.

Speaking of Flight Express, thanks a TON for your gouge you posted. I never PM'd you for the thanks, my buddy got hired and said your info was a great help. He's down at CRG.
 
Yeah I was overhead when you were getting vectored for that approach. Had a 30degree crab at 8k the whole way back from Atlanta to St. louis. 5.3 block 5.0 actual.
 
BNA was still a mess this morning. Gusting to 35 but down the runway. We picked up a bunch of ice too. Charlotte wasn't much better either. Just one of those days. Went into Huntsville yesterday and had 75 knots of wind at 1500 feet down the ILS.
 
Have fun bumping around out there! We got canceled tonight, so it's another night lounging around the hotel studying for me. :D
 
winds were close to 100 knots this morning in columbus at 6000 feet. Friend of mine in the Navajo saw 300 knots in the descent.
 
I've been primarily doing west coast flying.

Flew into CLE today and what a freeking mess. No wonder the captain offered me the leg. Windy, rainy, turbulent, cloudy, cold (well, at least for this AZ boy)...Ick!

BTW, I do not heart CLE ground control.
 
It's not so bad with the center runway closed but it was a cluster with those hold short lines when they were using all three 6s.
 
Here were my taxi instructions off of 24L:

"Taxi on lima short of sierra"

(ack)

"Wait...uhh, hold right there"

(ack)

"The continental on 24L might make Lima 1"

(ack)

"Ok, Airliner 450 continue on Lima, hold short sierra, he's not goign to make it"

(ack)

"Ok, hold for the Eagle RJ departing the ramp"

"Where is eagle?" (me)

"Oh, ok, he's on Whiskey, hold for the express RJ, the Beech Airliner will wait for you at Sierra then to the gate"

(ack)

(the 1900 continues onto the taxiway)

"Airliner 450, you moving?"

"Nope, the 1900 kept taxiing so we waited"

Aye.... suck suck suck.
 
One of my first charters as a freight pilot took me to Dulles on a nice windy, early morning. I hit turbulence so rough it knocked the controls out of my hands at one point. Then, when I was on final the Airbus behind me was asking for missed approach instructions in-case they couldn't make the runway.

I fought it all the way down. It was the first time in a long time that I was planning on going around, but hoping to happen to be able to make a safe touchdown.
 
Doug Taylor said:
Here were my taxi instructions off of 24L:

"Taxi on lima short of sierra"

(ack)

"Wait...uhh, hold right there"

(ack)

"The continental on 24L might make Lima 1"

(ack)

"Ok, Airliner 450 continue on Lima, hold short sierra, he's not goign to make it"

(ack)

"Ok, hold for the Eagle RJ departing the ramp"

"Where is eagle?" (me)

"Oh, ok, he's on Whiskey, hold for the express RJ, the Beech Airliner will wait for you at Sierra then to the gate"

(ack)

(the 1900 continues onto the taxiway)

"Airliner 450, you moving?"

"Nope, the 1900 kept taxiing so we waited"

Aye.... suck suck suck.
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You still in CLE? If you got some free time I'll buy you some coffee.
 
Ground is the least of CLE's problems hehehe....for a while I thought "maintain one-six-zero knots" was synonomous with "hello" on CLE approach.
 
Oh hell, SLC can be worse sometimes.

They'll ask for 210 knots, 30 miles out, no one's on TCAS, you'll land and taxi into the gate and the place is a ghost town.
 
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