mikel97 wrote: » Its N2731G (prob CIA) yes Shannon
If you are interested in hearing from a real 737 pilot on how fuel planning is carried out on days like yesterday, you can check out flightdeck2sim's YouTube live stream from last night where he simulated a flight from Dublin to Liverpool with the prevailing weather conditions.
Fuel plannings explanation starts at 12:06:
https://youtu.be/omyVYdpRNIw?t=726
TL/DR: fill it up to the point that you will still be below maximum landing weight/runway limits on arrival at your intended destination.
There's even more to that one, I see on FR24 X that RYR6333 was originally FR633 Copenhagen-Dublin that had first diverted to Manchester after two missed approaches to DUB before beginning its second try for DUB from MAN a while later before ending up in Liverpool something like 7 hours after originally leaving CPH. Fun day for those pax and lots of others.
You definitely weren't the only one watching, I think when I was watching one of the later 7700s, an Easyjet heading for MAN, there were something like 35k watching it.
Yes, what happened yesterday was usual in terms of sheer numbers of missed approaches all over the place at multiple airports, very long diversions and multiple emergency 7700 transponders.
Thankfully everyone arrived safely back on terra firma even if it wasn't where they set out for originally.
I don’t know , my partner was delayed 2 hours but got home from London, she’d had have been pissed off if she flew emerald airlines. Ryanair seemed to get a lot of flights through last night , I’m sure all the Monday workers were happy with their effort.
Probably so.....but what went on with the unfortunate FR555 that it ended up in France ?
or worse, the EDI-DUB that ended up in cologne?
Could have been anything from closer options being out of wind limits or already full and not accepting non-emergencies. Manchester alone took at least 4 emergencies as well as multiple diversions. I know paper never refuses ink but if they're writing an article about every diversion yesterday they'll be very busy.
I see they did cover the emergency 7700s yesterday, Swiss and Turkish probably not weather related given locations but still that's a substantial number for one day.
https://aviationsourcenews.com/emergency/jet2-flight-fails-to-land-in-belfast-declares-emergency/
https://aviationsourcenews.com/emergency/tui-flight-glasgow-sharm-el-sheikh-declares-emergency/
https://aviationsourcenews.com/emergency/easyjet-flight-fuerteventura-edinburgh-declares-emergency/
https://aviationsourcenews.com/emergency/easyjet-flight-las-palmas-london-declares-emergency/
https://aviationsourcenews.com/emergency/easyjet-flight-fails-to-land-in-glasgow-declares-emergency/
https://aviationsourcenews.com/emergency/british-airways-flight-london-prague-declares-emergency/
https://aviationsourcenews.com/emergency/swiss-a220-zurich-dresden-declares-emergency/
https://aviationsourcenews.com/emergency/turkish-airlines-flight-istanbul-amsterdam-declares-emergency/
From what I can see these are all automatically generated news items with zero human input. It's good automation if not much else.
The worst one has to be the Ryanair from Lanzarote that got all the way to the Dublin hold, didn't bother holding but rather diverted to Bordeaux in the South of France!
A 5 hour flight to Bordeaux, wouldn't you be fuming
FR1401 TFS-ORK farting around cork after a brief hold and go-around, EI841 AMS-ORK next up.
METAR gives wind of 230° 26KT Gusting 38KTS
We have a lear jet ?? 🤔
And we have a Go Around at Dublin.
FR5307 - RYR591N from Kerry.
Ryan Air flew from Stansted over to cork, and back to Stansted? (5174?)
Onboard account of this flight..
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/im-never-going-to-see-my-children-again-inside-the-terrifying-12-hour-flight-ordeal-to-dublin-during-storm-isha/a447953432.html
EI3301, SOU-DUB gone around. Would like to be on an ATR today.
Aer Lingus London to Knock currently battling the wind, two go arounds, abandoned the third try, now lining up for a fourth try at landing.
Also, Emerald Southampton to Dublin has gone around, now circling for a second try...
This is the third attempt now, that was a holding pattern. Rare to see 3 attempts
KLM from Amsterdam heading to Cork diverting to Shannon now too
Thought was gonna make another attempt but seems to be heading north, at a fairly low altitude and speed though
Ye, EI915 landed on 3rd attempt at Knock, RTE News was down there live and also mentioned it's 2 go arounds, weather looks pretty poor there.
FR901 holding over Cork at 8000ft, hasn't even attempted an approach yet.
Airbus extra long range A321XLR F-WXLR on approach to SNN, range of 4,700 nautical miles with 244 PAX apparently.
Edit: And it's on a go around also.
Edit 2: 2nd go around.
Winds 230, Gusting 39.
I've a feed here (Twr/Approach)
http://mwrf.asuscomm.com:7777/eick.mp3
Do any airports have live webcams ?
Would be interesting to watch planes coming and going?
And again!
Another go around . What now
EIN40X goes around again at Dublin
Looks like after over an hour holding he's had enough and diverting to SNN.
Appears to be heading away from Dublin now after 2nd attempt. Must be frustrating when most other aircraft are landing.
I thought he'd landed but F-WXLR is back around for what looks like a 4th approach, unless they're practicing or certifying it?
Edit: Ye, looks like he landed and took off again.
Top listing on Flightradar24 at the moment 1968 followers. Heading east Liverpool or Manchester possibly?
Must be practice flight as done a touch and go again there.
