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Uhoh snow
« on: January 29, 2015, 08:03:50 AM »
That means Ryanair Racetracks

RYR51AQ coming up the coast to join.

A bit of a melée over Lough Neagh as well.

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Re: Uhoh snow
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2015, 08:21:21 AM »
Actually Eglinton is now receiving aircraft and Aldergrove is not!

Sounds like City is about to  close.
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Re: Uhoh snow
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2015, 08:23:42 AM »
EZY43VL thinking about diverting but having a go at Aldergrove first
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Re: Uhoh snow
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2015, 08:26:10 AM »
Now that's confusing,  EZY43VL has been up so long that BEE8VL is on freq too.
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Re: Uhoh snow
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2015, 08:30:55 AM »
I would say them other easyjets will be diverting. Taxiways aren't cleared yet so EZY43VL is having to hold on runway.
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Re: Uhoh snow
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2015, 08:36:38 AM »
Taxiways getting cleared now, easyjet now taxing off runway.
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Re: Uhoh snow
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2015, 08:37:54 AM »
Cheers Callum.

Flight info board is pretty useless, looks like the guy that updates it hasn't made it in to work...
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Re: Uhoh snow
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2015, 10:14:58 AM »
Quote from: smudge on January 29, 2015, 08:37:54 AM
Cheers Callum.

Flight info board is pretty useless, looks like the guy that updates it hasn't made it in to work...

Looks like there was a problem with BT this morning causing the Live Flight Info not to work, BFS posted this on Twitter:
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Problems with BT are affecting live flight  information feed to website. BT are working to fix the problem.
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Re: Uhoh snow
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2015, 10:23:08 AM »
Aha!

Seems to be operational again now.  hurrah!

I have a friend flying today and they were a little anxious at the lack of data

Must be an 'interesting' network topology; aircraft touches-down at EGAA, data is uploaded to somewhere ( NATS?  CAA? ), processed, and returned over the Internet or leased-line  to EGAA's system to update the board.  ???
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Re: Uhoh snow
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2015, 11:07:55 AM »
Quote from: TCX49 on January 29, 2015, 08:30:55 AM
I would say them other easyjets will be diverting. Taxiways aren't cleared yet so EZY43VL is having to hold on runway.

I could hear the "thrum" of vehicles blowing/clearing the snow at BFS this morning as I was clearing my car.
There was approx. 5cm of snow with us this morning.0800 ish.
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Re: Uhoh snow
« Reply #10 on: January 29, 2015, 11:20:41 AM »
Manchester airport is having problems with the snowy weather also,flights have been suspended.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-31036671

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Re: Uhoh snow
« Reply #11 on: January 29, 2015, 01:17:10 PM »
Quote from: smudge on January 29, 2015, 10:23:08 AM
Must be an 'interesting' network topology; aircraft touches-down at EGAA, data is uploaded to somewhere ( NATS?  CAA? ), processed, and returned over the Internet or leased-line  to EGAA's system to update the board.  ???

Actually upon reflection I can see the sense in this.

Since the flight information system needs a feed of external data to display the arrivals information ( delayed at origin etc.  ) it may have been more convenient to consume the same feed for departures, even though the data being displayed just makes a big round trip!
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