Anonymous
August 19th 03, 04:39 AM
David Megginson > wrote in
:
> When an aircraft is flying under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR), air
> traffic control will assign different altitudes, headings, and
> airspeeds. Depending on the other traffic, your plane might have been
> told to descend to a different altitude, at which point it would level
> out again until cleared to a lower altitude. Ditto for headings. It
> could be that the pilot was also a little gung-ho on the controls, or
> that the controller was falling a little behind the traffic and had to
> vector you around a little too much, but there's nothing unusual about
> what you described.
Thanks for the follow up.
But at 3:30am at Irkutsk Siberia, there isnt a lot of traffic. :)
I did not notice any other planes before us (no other pax, nor luggage) and
no jets landed after us. We were an hour late though.
And being Siberia - theres plenty of room between airports as well.
Gung ho Im used to - many Russian pilots are ex military (as are in other
parts, but even more here I think) but the very long approach seemed very
unusual. I did some checking and found that one of the approaches to IKT
does in fact include 4 turns.
Isnt 4 turns a 360 though? There arent any mountains of consequence in the
near vicinity or other obstacles I can think of?
The only other major airport that is near is Irkut Aviation which does
handle some military as well as test flights.
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:
> When an aircraft is flying under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR), air
> traffic control will assign different altitudes, headings, and
> airspeeds. Depending on the other traffic, your plane might have been
> told to descend to a different altitude, at which point it would level
> out again until cleared to a lower altitude. Ditto for headings. It
> could be that the pilot was also a little gung-ho on the controls, or
> that the controller was falling a little behind the traffic and had to
> vector you around a little too much, but there's nothing unusual about
> what you described.
Thanks for the follow up.
But at 3:30am at Irkutsk Siberia, there isnt a lot of traffic. :)
I did not notice any other planes before us (no other pax, nor luggage) and
no jets landed after us. We were an hour late though.
And being Siberia - theres plenty of room between airports as well.
Gung ho Im used to - many Russian pilots are ex military (as are in other
parts, but even more here I think) but the very long approach seemed very
unusual. I did some checking and found that one of the approaches to IKT
does in fact include 4 turns.
Isnt 4 turns a 360 though? There arent any mountains of consequence in the
near vicinity or other obstacles I can think of?
The only other major airport that is near is Irkut Aviation which does
handle some military as well as test flights.
--
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