It was about the only thing I understood in this thread.🙂
EGKK 260502Z 2606/2712 VRB03KT 3000 BR FEW035 PROB30 2606/2607 0600 FG BKN001 BECMG 2607/2610 9999 NSW PROB30 2700/2707 5000 BR BECMG 2707/2710 10010KT TEMPO 2709/2712 7000 RA
Take a flight tomorrow (27th) after 0800Z.
This is interesting in two ways.
Firstly they have
BECMG 2607/2610 9999 NSW
and that extends all the way to the end of the TAF. Yet they have
TEMPO 2709/2712 7000 RA
but how can NSW be the case with RA, practically? Could there be RA with a cloudbase which was previously high enough to warrant NSW?
From here
If no significant weather is expected to occur during a specific time period in the forecast, the weather group is omitted for that time period. If, after a time period in which significant weather has been forecast, a change to a forecast of no significant weather occurs, the contraction NSW (No Significant Weather) will apear as the weatehr group in the new time period. However, NSW is only included in the BECMG or TEMPO groups.
I can't find a definition for NSW itself. It certainly isn't CAVOK but what are the requirements?
The other subtlety worth a mention is that the RA is forecast till 1200 but since the TAF itself is valid till 1200 also, the rain is in effect forecast to potentially exist past the end of the TAF.
From here
An ECG treadmill is about £300, plus the cardiologist report at maybe £200.
IIRC you are required to complete Bruce stages 1 2 3 and then you immediately report fatigue e.g. by saying your legs are sore. In theory you are supposed to continue until you collapse but it would be daft to do that, especially since – according to a retired AME I spoke to recently – the ECG will be crap by then and then a whole new can of worms opens with further (and very expensive) tests required.
There was a proposal years ago to do the ECG treadmill for all working ATPs but it was scrapped after – according to a CAA insider and a former AME I spoke to – it was determined 3.5% of them would have a heart attack on the treadmill.
With people converting LS1 and LS3 engines and Austro Engine converting Mercedes engines, I got curious if someone tried to convert an MA1.04 and to my surprise, Porsche made their own aviation engine.
On paper a Porsche boxer engine sounds like a great idea.
So what happened to the PFM 3200? Why are Porsche aviation engines not a thing ?
It was about the only thing I understood in this thread.🙂
I’ll be crossing from the Bodensee to Chur to the Engadin and Italy in about a month and I bet it won’t look like the motorcycling is disappearing… the passes are packed on the weekends. Try Stel…
The TAF at first describes the expected condition at the start of the forecast period.
0506/0612 VRB03KT CAVOK
Any change to that has to be above a certain threshold level. SHRA is a significan…
One of the many advantage…
But it is … at least in EASA land which is what I was referring to with the strange formulation in the regulations. Many cardiologists use a bike instead of a treadmill because it’s easier for the…
