OFFICIAL 2019 Extreme Weather Thread

[BavarianBeast]

Fack, too many people get Friday’s off these days eh.

How were the roads? Dry until elevation gain on ski hill rd?

[JfuckinC]

My bud sent me a picture, gondola line was huge at LL haha fuckkkk that.

[lasimmon]

Anytime there is a powder day, LL and Sunshine will be packed. People have flex days and shit now and its always busy on pow days.

If you can get lucky, tuesday or wednesday at Kickinghorse or Revy. Or any pow weekday at really any other resort is better.


... I would never go to Sunshine on a pow day without the dive open. Too much of a garbage hill.

[rage2]

This fog. Of all my travels, today is the first day I’ve had a flight cancelled. The streak is over. Inbound plane couldn’t land. Circled for an hour and fucked off to Edmonton.

[killramos]

How many billions on the airport and they can’t land in fog in Calgary of all places?

[revelations]

woah that must have been some bad soup .... we have one of the few Cat IIIa runways in Canada too but you need the onboard equipment and the ability to see the runway from 100ft up (and then 700ft visually once you are on the ground).

I doubt that the CRJ had such equipment. If you had flown a REAL jet you probably could have made it in fine :p

[rage2]

I was told the runway lights are fucked too. And ya, the real jets are landing mostly ok. No real jets to sfo tho unless I fly thru YVR.

[J-hop]

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How many billions on the airport and they can’t land in fog in Calgary of all places?

I thought the visibility requirements to land had more to do with the plane and its onboard equipment not the airport

[infamous]

the roads this morning we definitely slicker than usual, in my fwd i had my ass end kick out twice going from deer run to downtown, and that's on some x ice winters lol....

[lasimmon]

Roads were fine from the west side into downtown.

The other drivers? Not so much.

[killramos]

I think roads were pretty variable, but of snow outside the office, but none at home 4km away. Trucks with a decent amount of snow on them driving around so there was a dump somewhere.

Didn’t seem tooooo slick though.

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

Didn’t get a hint of wheel spin this morning but my truck weighs 7100lbs which helps.

[revelations]

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I thought the visibility requirements to land had more to do with the plane and its onboard equipment not the airport

Also has to do with RWY lighting. As RAGE mentioned, if the pilots cannot acquire the RWY lights at a certain height above ground (Decision Height) they cannot legally land.

[Aleks]

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Also has to do with RWY lighting. As RAGE mentioned, if the pilots cannot acquire the RWY lights at a certain height above ground (Decision Height) they cannot legally land.

Is the 100 ft above the best available tech for these systems?

I thought I've seen a random YT vid or two in the past with planes basically auto landing in ~0 visibility and then pilots taking over control once rolling on the ground, but maybe I remember wrong. This wasn't YYC.

[rage2]

I’m still in Calgary but at least boarded and on the runway. Morning flight delayed because of fog in SFO now that YYC cleared up.

One of my bags tested positive for explosives through security this morning and holy shit that’s a process. I’m having zero luck on this trip haha.

[cet]

Flying to SFO is such a pain in the ass. I flew to or through there 4 times last year and not once was on time. I avoid it as much as I can now.

[nzwasp]

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I’m still in Calgary but at least boarded and on the runway. Morning flight delayed because of fog in SFO now that YYC cleared up.

One of my bags tested positive for explosives through security this morning and holy shit that’s a process. I’m having zero luck on this trip haha.

Surely that has to be a false positive. At least you were lucky this happened in Calgary and not in the states.

[bjstare]

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Flying to SFO is such a pain in the ass. I flew to or through there 4 times last year and not once was on time. I avoid it as much as I can now.

Yeah, I've never had good experiences. Some of the longest delays I've had have been due to SFO fog.

[revelations]

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I’m still in Calgary but at least boarded and on the runway. Morning flight delayed because of fog in SFO now that YYC cleared up.

One of my bags tested positive for explosives through security this morning and holy shit that’s a process. I’m having zero luck on this trip haha.

Been in contact with heart medication by chance?

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Is the 100 ft above the best available tech for these systems?

I thought I've seen a random YT vid or two in the past with planes basically auto landing in ~0 visibility and then pilots taking over control once rolling on the ground, but maybe I remember wrong. This wasn't YYC.

No these autoland systems CAN do 0/0 (zero height, zero forward vis) but the cost for the airlines and the airport to implement this is huge. You will need, in some cases, a FOLLOW ME vehicle to guide the ship to the gate.

Things like enhanced/synthetic vision (ie. runway visible on a HUD) will help a long way with getting more planes on/off the ground in bad Wx as the pilots can still 'see' visually whats on the ground without expensive radios and computers that are required for CatIIIc autoland.

Places like ZURICH which experience a large number of serious fog days - it makes sense for the airlines and airports to invest in this tech. Otherwise the airport would be shut down most of the winter .... haha


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