Kikapu wrote:Paphitis wrote:
I like the idea of flying into Newark, O'Hare, LAX, Dallas, Vegas, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dulles day in day out. So many planes in the sky and beautiful landscapes especially over the rockies. The variety in flying, in snow/sleet, icing conditions and even going to novel places like Alaska, Caribbean, and mexico and also flying into Canada appeals to me greatly.
You are going to love making parallel landing on runways 28L & 28R and parallel take-off on runways 1L & 1R on narrow separation at San Francisco International Airport (SFO - KSFO) when conditions are good.
You are also going to looooooove “the cardiac approach” onto runway 27 at San Dieago International Airport (SAN -KSAN)!
Hope your “ticker” is working fine!
Oh yeh.
We don't come anywhere near having a cardiac episode no matter how hairy it might seem to you. There are procedures in place and soon as even the slightest thing goes wrong, even what may seem trivial, is an automatic go around and come back and try again.
yeh sure, in America you would get screwed over by ATC before they slotted you back in the sequence, but there is still no Russian Roulette in our game.
After you go into the same places over and over, it's all literally a walk in the park.
I mean going into Sydney is made out to be a big thing but everything is controlled and you are always on a Standard Arrival and that STAR is pre-loaded into the Flight Management Computer, and the autopilot flies it and all you do is turn a few knobs and change the odd autopilot mode and wait for the RNAV 4 to RNAV 2 switch-overs which are automatic and go through all the check lists.
Sydney and Brisbane have parallel runways. the Sydney runways are also close together and as a result we have break out procedures if you have more than 1 dot deviation on the ILS. I have never been involved in a break out or heard of another break out when on approach. I did hear once United Airlines call a fuel emergency as they were running low on fuel because they were put into a holding pattern for 40 minutes (we were all on hold that day because Sydney went from 3 runways down to 1. Brisbane is the best designed airport and the parallel runways are further from each other and as a result there are no break out procedures.
It's like driving a train. Planes fly on rails.
Our biggest risk factors are icing, weather, and wind shear and we get plenty of weather (tropical) and wind shear, as well as icing but not that much snow.
The good thing in America, is that everything is just at another level. More interesting weather in terms of icing and snow, and also high altitude airports like Denver. The scenery, traffic, and just the volume of the industry and how ATC operate in a very high pressure environment which seems to be in a league of its own in some places. So I still want to go.
This Chy-na Virus has been a huge obstacle and disruption so I can't wait till it's all over and history.
