As I'm driving home from having coffee with my room mate Mike my phone rings.
"How quickly can you be at the airport, but of course, I will give you your full 90 mins as required, but... how quickly 'could' you be here?"
I reply with "Where am I going, with whom am I going with and what airplane?! I'll be there in 50 mins!"
I learn it's a quick trip to Vancouver and back, possibly a layover in Vancouver. Score! I get back home, hop in the bathroom and quickly shave and freshen up, down to put on the uniform and grab my suitcase. I'm at work exactly in 50 mins and I go to find out more about the flight.
Turns out that we had one of our clients trying to get to Vancouver and he was booked on an Air Canada flight, however they had cancelled it. Why? Fog. Well, this doesn't really mean we can get into the airport either. The forecast was bad, but other airports like Victoria and Abbotsford showed good forecasts, so if he really wanted to get to the lower mainland tonight, we'd be able to at least get him somewhere relatively close to Vancouver. We are told to standby as the Air Canada flight might be going after all. So the plane was all ready to go except for fuel, and then the phone call came in, the flight was cancelled.
What a tease! Barely any work and I was excited to go, and the possibility of a layover in Vancouver is always great. But alas it was not meant to be. Maybe next time.
Friday, February 02, 2007
What a tease
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Yah, there's generally some people who are always going to be useless on the road when fog, snow, heavy rain etc hits.. they just get totally focused on it and slam on the brakes. Scary stuff!
Landing in fog doesn't normally happen, but we can land in some very very low cloud ceilings and visibilities using the ILS (Instrument Landing System) which can typically guide us into being right over the end of the runway at 200 ft above the ground, if we can't see the runway then, we abort the approach/landing and get the heck out of dodge. Thanks for the suggestion, I think I will post up soon and go into a bit more detail on how we're able to land the planes in such poor weather.
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