Pilot-H wrote:
That must have been a hell of a wake turbulence…
You laugh, but actually there was a little bit of wake that I could feel on final approach!
As an aside, Aveiro is a great place. It’s mil/civ and you can walk into a sleepy little town with some great fish restaurants. Don’t recall if they had fuel, though. Portugal in general is a really a wonderful place to fly.
I would worry more about how long it takes a container ship to vacate.
Pilot-H wrote:
That must have been a hell of a wake turbulence…
In water?
172driver wrote:
Extended downwind and landed behind the container ship
That must have been a hell of a wake turbulence…
Archie wrote:
Negligible chance that a train and a plane will be there at the same time…
That happened three times during my PPL training at Leer-Papenburg EDWF. One time the train was actually parked in front of the threshold. EDWF does not have a displaced threshold.
Negligible chance that a train and a plane will be there at the same time…
Unfortunately I don’t have a picture of the landing, but Aveiro / LPAV in Portugal has a note to the effect of ‘caution, ships up to 100ft tall in approach path’. And voila! Sure enough, on downwind saw a container ship stately sailing through the channel that links the port (in a lagoon) to the ocean. Extended downwind and landed behind the container ship ;-))
He, he – yes indeed, but you would have been disappointed if it hadnt been mentioned. All the times I have been dragging it in, I am the last to have mentioned it. Trouble is in twins you should probably fly the PAPIs, but old habits die hard.
I have landed at a few gliding sites and always paranoid about the wires.
A good reason I once saw while landing in Tucson, Arizona, is that the runway was equipped with an arrestor cable for military jets. The cable crossed the runway in the displaced area. I would not have wanted the wheels of the 182 tangled up in that!
In the last few weeks I have seen two arrestor wire installations (Karpathos LGKP and Badajoz LEBZ) and in both cases the wire appeared to be lying on the tarmac. I don’t think those two would have caught anything. The one at LGKP you actually drive over in a normal landing – quite a hard bump.
It is interesting how often pilots fly the PAPIs in a single
I just knew I should have photoshopped them 
But normally I am well above them.
I got told off once for going below the PAPIs (in VMC) while a train was passing by; to be honest I had been given a “land after” clearance and I was very focused on not being high and fast
It is interesting how often pilots fly the PAPIs in a single. I think it is better to be above, and of course if you are below on a displaced threshold it sought of potentially disregards the whole point of the displacement.
