Tower at HAM flashing white light?
Jan 5, 2015, 5:15 am
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Tower at HAM flashing white light?
The tower at Hamburg has just started flashing a white light from the beacon.
I understand this to be a signal to an airborne aircraft to land here, and for everything else to return to the start point.
Emergency in progress, or is there some benign reason this is happening?
I understand this to be a signal to an airborne aircraft to land here, and for everything else to return to the start point.
Emergency in progress, or is there some benign reason this is happening?
Jan 5, 2015, 5:19 am
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The tower at Hamburg has just started flashing a white light from the beacon.
I understand this to be a signal to an airborne aircraft to land here, and for everything else to return to the start point.
Emergency in progress, or is there some benign reason this is happening?
I understand this to be a signal to an airborne aircraft to land here, and for everything else to return to the start point.
Emergency in progress, or is there some benign reason this is happening?
Jan 5, 2015, 5:22 am
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OT: Tower at HAM flashing white light?
I was wondering if there was an airborne aircraft with comms problems.
Everything is taxiing as normal though, and takeoffs and landings are occurring using intersecting runways.
Perhaps it's a scheduled test.
Everything is taxiing as normal though, and takeoffs and landings are occurring using intersecting runways.
Perhaps it's a scheduled test.
Jan 5, 2015, 5:26 am
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There is a Bombardier Global 6000 squawking 2000 (Uncontrolled IFR flight) on the ground at HAM though, so it may have something to do with that? Not sure though.
Jan 5, 2015, 5:41 am
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OT: Tower at HAM flashing white light?
Mystery solved.
D-ACNW (a CRJ-900 not fitted with ADS-B and therefore not on FR24) has just landed. It's been guided from the runway during taxi by a ground vehicle with flashing orange lights, and the tower beacon has now ceased flashing.
Likely a declared radio problem. Everything moving normally at HAM at present. No delays!
D-ACNW (a CRJ-900 not fitted with ADS-B and therefore not on FR24) has just landed. It's been guided from the runway during taxi by a ground vehicle with flashing orange lights, and the tower beacon has now ceased flashing.
Likely a declared radio problem. Everything moving normally at HAM at present. No delays!
Jan 5, 2015, 5:43 am
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Mystery solved.
D-ACNW (a CRJ-900 not fitted with ADS-B and therefore not on FR24) has just landed. It's been guided from the runway during taxi by a ground vehicle with flashing orange lights, and the tower beacon has now ceased flashing.
Likely a declared radio problem. Everything moving normally at HAM at present. No delays!
D-ACNW (a CRJ-900 not fitted with ADS-B and therefore not on FR24) has just landed. It's been guided from the runway during taxi by a ground vehicle with flashing orange lights, and the tower beacon has now ceased flashing.
Likely a declared radio problem. Everything moving normally at HAM at present. No delays!
Jan 5, 2015, 7:54 am
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Thread has now been moved to the Germany forum
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Jan 5, 2015, 8:40 am
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The lights are flashing on the MUC tower right now.
Jan 8, 2015, 1:20 am
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Since the mystery is solved and this is nothing to do with Germany in general other than it happened at HAM, I am going to close this thread.
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