what's causing all the US Airways delays into and out of CLT today? (not the weather)
Nov 23, 2013, 10:42 am
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what's causing all the US Airways delays into and out of CLT today? (not the weather)
what's causing all the US Airways delays into and out of CLT today? (not the weather)
according to Flightaware, CLT takes first prize in the number of delays and cancellations today?
Thanks!
according to Flightaware, CLT takes first prize in the number of delays and cancellations today?
Thanks!
Nov 23, 2013, 1:07 pm
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METAR history shows visibility was 0.5 miles or less, with fog reported, for several hours this morning. That's the only possible explanation I can see.
Nov 23, 2013, 3:21 pm
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I think we have a winner & I also just read on another forum a rumor and again it's only rumor that mtc is "working by the book" causing lots of intl delays.
Nov 23, 2013, 8:59 pm
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FAA status notices show CLT being below CAT I for a fair part of the morning followed by ground stops for flights going to CLT off and on.
Jim
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Nov 24, 2013, 6:34 am
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CPRich and BoeingBoy pretty much covered the basic issue for CLT yestersday morning. The area of the airport got foggy starting around 6a, and didn't lift until around 9a. There was a point of time that you could not see across the ramp from D-conn to E-conn (D10 looking north toward E11,13,15). Some flights did get in during this period, but the backlog of early flights trying to get in along with the 2nd bank of inbounds didn't help with delays (at least express ops).
Nov 24, 2013, 2:17 pm
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Nov 24, 2013, 2:21 pm
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Nov 25, 2013, 5:57 am
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Mainline is all CAT III capable (i.e. autoland) as far as I know (but new captains have to get time in before they are able to do CAT III approaches) but not all Express carriers/plane types are. I think most are only CAT I. There must have been a lot of diversions - I've never noticed ATC putting out a status update calling for noting "diversion" on flight plans for flights into CLT that had been diverted.
Jim
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Had one of our pilots comment yesterday that they are going to start training to Cat II standards when their recurrent training comes due. Hope that it will help with fog events, but might be more work for the MX department.