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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 3, 2018 23:48:42 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 4, 2018 0:25:43 GMT 12
What has the thread title you've decided to add to this have to do with the actual story?? Yet another of your childish, baseless digs against Auckland?
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Post by vs on Jun 4, 2018 9:51:36 GMT 12
We get at least 2 A350 a day in Auckland...so nothing special  I guess they are looking at performance data off a short runway with performance issues regarding the Hills to the North of 34 |
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Post by saratoga on Jun 4, 2018 10:07:50 GMT 12
Jaffas have thin skins these days, must be all the rain... |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 4, 2018 10:12:52 GMT 12
We get at least 2 A350 a day in Auckland...so nothing special I guess they are looking at performance data off a short runway with performance issues regarding the Hills to the North of 34 Yes, that is exactly what they are doing, flying to different and unusual airports to gather performance data which they can then present to potential customers. As the type operates daily into Auckland they don't need to do that sort of data gathering there. |
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Post by saratoga on Jun 4, 2018 10:19:30 GMT 12
i think AKL has had shittier weather than WLG in recent times,i guess another case of the regions missing out.
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Post by vs on Jun 4, 2018 10:21:16 GMT 12
i think AKL has had shittier weather than WLG in recent times,i guess another case of the regions missing out. regions don't have the population for such services. PS: why does everyone want to seem to move here these days? |
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Post by saratoga on Jun 4, 2018 10:40:47 GMT 12
The media told them to.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 4, 2018 11:20:36 GMT 12
Weather, Auckland and "the regions" have nothing to do with the reason the Airbus is here. Why are you trying to make this an us versus them type thing? It's crazy.
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Post by tbf25o4 on Jun 4, 2018 15:36:47 GMT 12
Talking to the Wellington Airport Airfield engineer this morning, he stated that the main reason for the Airbus visit was to trial takeoff and landings on Wellington's grooved runway in
wet and windy conditions. Unfortunately this morning the weather didn't play ball with overcast weather and a 12-15k easterly cross wind. The aircraft performed a takeoff to the south and then a landing on runway 16. After that it waited at the northern end of runway 16 and when traffic allowed departed to the south where they turned and made a downwind landing on runway 34 before taxying back to the stand to await foul weather. The crew told the engineer they have allowed up to 10 days to complete the wet weather short runway performance testing at Wellington if required.
Most impressive takeoff using less than 50% of the available length on 16
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Post by Brett on Jun 5, 2018 12:08:08 GMT 12
This Airbus just flew over my house on long finals for a northern approach into Wellington. It's fairly calm and overcast at the moment, so the crew are probably looking happily at tomorrows forecast of rain and gale force southerlies.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 5, 2018 17:14:44 GMT 12
Here is a great photo that Paul Harrison (tbf2504) has sent through for the thread  |
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Post by jeffref on Jun 9, 2018 19:08:33 GMT 12
I wonder if the trials had anything to do with Singapore Airlines withdrawing the 777 in the near future? The 200ER can easily operate to Australia with a full load of passengers even off a wet runway but the figures put out by Astral and those currently on Airbus Airport Characteristics website show the A350 heavily penalised on both a wet and dry runway for landing and on a wet runway for takeoff. This is despite the A350 being a similar size and weight to the 777200ER. The new runway should have been completed in 2/3 years and can cope with current requirements but has now been delayed by court proceedings. Perhaps SIAL want to see if the A350 could operate in the meantime but needed the authority from Airbus to do so assuming the grooved runway proved sufficient?
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