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Dublin - Center - airplanes ??

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    endacl
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    Probably moving between airports?


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    ScumLord
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    That's all the immigrants being flown in.


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    everlast75
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    zom wrote: »
    There is plenty of airplanes flying over Dublin city centre for last hour - any idea why ?

    Maybe they would have used the roads, but you know... what with the bus strike and all..


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    uptown or downtown?


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    Grandeeod
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    Usually means a change of runway at Dublin airport.


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    Boom_Bap
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    Airplanes are capitalising on the bus strikes.


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    HeidiHeidi
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    zom wrote: »
    There is plenty of airplanes flying over Dublin city centre for last hour - any idea why ?
    Big ones or small ones?

    If small ones - practising for the Easter flyovers?


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    skankkuvhima
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    Bus eireann picket on the runway, planes cant land


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    zom
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    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Big ones or small ones?

    If small ones - practising for the Easter flyovers?


    Probably that - do you have any info about that planned flyovers?


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    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
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    There's acrake of cows out on the roads in Westmeath, anyone know why


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    Grayson
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    There's acrake of cows out on the roads in Westmeath, anyone know why

    Because it's Westmeath.


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    storker
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    Probably using runway 16/34 today.


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    Ted111
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    ?? airplanes - Centre - Dublin


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    Grayson
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    Ted111 wrote: »
    ?? airplanes - Centre - Dublin

    airplanes - Centre - Dublin - ??? - profit?


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    zom
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    LexieOnRale wrote: »
    There's acrake of cows out on the roads in Westmeath, anyone know why


    Sure, like we all have private jets and choppers in Dublin ;) Go to "Westmeath - road - cows ??" thread country boy !!;);)


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    tobsey
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    Grandeeod wrote: »
    Usually means a change of runway at Dublin airport.

    Most likely. Winds are southerly at the moment which would be a direct cross wind for the main runway. They're probably taking off southbound and heading out over the bay.


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    Ted111
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    Centre - ?? - airplanes - dublin


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    fiachr_a
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    Ted111 wrote: »
    Centre - ?? - airplanes - dublin

    They're called aeroplanes, piss off to America.


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    Ferrari3600
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    Grayson wrote: »
    airplanes - Centre - Dublin - ??? - profit?

    underpants.jpg


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    oneilla
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    storker wrote: »
    Probably using runway 16/34 today.

    I didn't know Dublin airport had two runways, always assumed it just had the one!


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    oneilla
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    http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/news/heres-why-military-planes-were-flying-low-over-dublin-today-35583235.html


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    storker
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    oneilla wrote: »
    I didn't know Dublin airport had two runways, always assumed it just had the one!

    In aviation terms it has four, although physically there are two. The one most used is the longer one running from east to west, which is runway 28 if you're taking off/landing towards the west. If you're landing on the same stretch of pavement but in an easterly direction, you're landing on runway 10.

    Likewise, the shorter north-south(ish) runway is 16 if you're taking off or landing while pointed at Dublin city centre, or runway 34 if you're pointed towards Derry. :)

    Runway numbers are decided by their orientation on the compass. The compass direction is rounded up or down to the nearest 10 and then the zero is dropped. Runway 28, for example, points in the direction of 283 degrees (magnetic). That number is rounded to 280 and the the zero is dropped, giving 28.

    Before I learned all that myself a long time ago I did wonder how Dublin could possibly have 28 runways... :)


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