07-25-2021, 12:23 PM
Ms. Spence would not have had much trouble to sign off on this decision regarding operations at Brisbane Airport. Given a commonly standard runway, the pilot of any aircraft will not opt for any downwind landing because an into wind landing is inherently the safer option due to the aircraft’s lower ground speed. The last thing pilots need is more downwind, even five knots is a compromise against safety.
Civil Aviation Advisory Publication 166 quote:-
“ 4.2.1 Take-off or landing downwind is not recommended as a standard procedure. Pilots should use the runway most closely aligned into wind (the active runway), wherever possible.”
The real test for our new CASA CEO will be to lance one outstanding festering sore, that of CASA’s disgraceful attack on Glen Buckley. That would be a start, a message of repudiation to her underlings, that the command and control mentality, hammering down General Aviation with a suite of ever more prescriptive of criminal sanction rules, new permissions and fee gouging must be reversed.
We could then see the beginnings of rebuilding the legitimate place of CASA and allow General Aviation the space to grow businesses, jobs and services in the manner of free enterprise in a free country.
Civil Aviation Advisory Publication 166 quote:-
“ 4.2.1 Take-off or landing downwind is not recommended as a standard procedure. Pilots should use the runway most closely aligned into wind (the active runway), wherever possible.”
The real test for our new CASA CEO will be to lance one outstanding festering sore, that of CASA’s disgraceful attack on Glen Buckley. That would be a start, a message of repudiation to her underlings, that the command and control mentality, hammering down General Aviation with a suite of ever more prescriptive of criminal sanction rules, new permissions and fee gouging must be reversed.
We could then see the beginnings of rebuilding the legitimate place of CASA and allow General Aviation the space to grow businesses, jobs and services in the manner of free enterprise in a free country.