Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - It's going to be a fun Eastern Region Tuesday...

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | Airline Operations | It's going to be a fun Eastern Region Tuesday...

DVA1427
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on December 14 2003
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Globetrotter
Moose Club
US Capital Club
Everett 250 Club
Quincentenary Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

"Livin' in the Dog Pound!"
Kannapolis, NC

558 legs, 1,984.3 hours
250 legs, 611.8 hours online
384 legs, 1,530.5 hours ACARS
38 legs, 82.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on April 13 2004 16:15 ET by Lewis Gregory

KEWR 132319Z 14005KT 1 1/4SM -RA BR OVC003 14/14 A2964 RMK AO2 SFC VIS 2 1/2 P0002

KJFK 132251Z 18015KT 1/16SM -RA BR OVC002 11/11 A2970 RMK AO2 SFC VIS 1 1/2 TSE16 SLP057 TS MOV N-NE P0032 T01110111

KBOS 132254Z 04008KT 1/2SM +RA BR OVC003 05/04 A2990 RMK AO2 SFC VIS 3 SLP125 P0012 T00500039 VISNO E $

So of course, I pick a flight into JFK. Should be fun!

(starts wondering if his Big Dog can do Cat III approaches)

Lewis Gregory

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA822
Senior Captain, B777-200

Joined on September 05 2002
Quincentenary Club
Million Mile Club

"I love the smell of jet fuel"
Northeastern United States

589 legs, 2,254.6 hours
47 legs, 112.9 hours online
97 legs, 400.7 hours ACARS
16 legs, 39.2 hours event

Posted onPost created on April 13 2004 16:34 ET by Trevor Fenimore

Yea it is terrible here in the NE. It has been raining heavily for the last three days. Here in PHL they were doing something really weird. All arriving aircraft except for the BAW 777 were doing the converging ILS 17. If you know PHL, 17 is about 5500 ft, the winds were like 080 at 25 too. I would imagine they had to hit the brakes pretty hard.

Trevor Fenimore (DVA822)

Posted onPost created on April 13 2004 18:17 ET by Lewis Gregory

They weren't kidding about that 1/16 mile. It was weird, I had no trouble picking up the lights for KJFK 13L at 6 miles and 1800', and did an uneventful ILS approach and landing, but once I was on the ground, I could see virtually nothing. I literally almost hit the terminal building before I saw it!

That was odd. I was expecting solid soup down to the deck, but the approach and landing weren't bad at all--I could easily see lights on the ground at 3000' AGL.

Flying out of Detroit back to Atlanta now. The JFK-ATL flight would take too long, there's 100+ knot southerly winds at FL350 over the Carolinas up to Jersey, pushing that storm along. I was doing 575 groundspeed at one point.

Lewis Gregory

Senior Captain, MD-11

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