Jon B
3rd September 2009, 10:05 PM
Tonight (3/3) I was on DJ 864 landing into Mel from East on RW27, we landed at almost exactly the same time as Jetstar A320 flight from CHC landing on RW 34 from South. Both landed at 18:08 when i checked on webtrak. Just curious as to the rules on the use of both runways like this as when we crossed RW 34 (I was in seat 6A so had a clear view) the Jetstar Airbus was also on its landing roll.
I understand that it the Airbus exited RW 34 well short of the crossover but just had not seen this before where both aircraft where landing at pretty much the exact same time, ie usually one aircraft has passed the runway crossing point before the other lands.
Also of interest was the track we flew after passing to the East of Canberra, we then turned due West off the normal Southbound track and then turned South - was obviously to avoid weather en route but what i was suprised by was that when we turned to South (ish) again we were on same track as we generally fly when Northbound - it was very clear this was the case when somewhere near about Tumut a Sydney bound QF 737 i think went Northbound not very far beneath us. I thought this was a bit of an unusual track from the norm.
Just would be interested to know about why these two events occured as we fly this route almost every week (Up to Syd on Tuesday back on Thursday). Certainly not saying it was an incident or any great drama but i would be interested to know why such landings are allowed and how often such tracks would be flown in that way. I understand the track was weather related but on the many other times this has occured we have either flown along the east Coast (once down as far as Tassie before coming back up to mel to avoid weather) or further West on say the Southbound track from Brisbane
I understand that it the Airbus exited RW 34 well short of the crossover but just had not seen this before where both aircraft where landing at pretty much the exact same time, ie usually one aircraft has passed the runway crossing point before the other lands.
Also of interest was the track we flew after passing to the East of Canberra, we then turned due West off the normal Southbound track and then turned South - was obviously to avoid weather en route but what i was suprised by was that when we turned to South (ish) again we were on same track as we generally fly when Northbound - it was very clear this was the case when somewhere near about Tumut a Sydney bound QF 737 i think went Northbound not very far beneath us. I thought this was a bit of an unusual track from the norm.
Just would be interested to know about why these two events occured as we fly this route almost every week (Up to Syd on Tuesday back on Thursday). Certainly not saying it was an incident or any great drama but i would be interested to know why such landings are allowed and how often such tracks would be flown in that way. I understand the track was weather related but on the many other times this has occured we have either flown along the east Coast (once down as far as Tassie before coming back up to mel to avoid weather) or further West on say the Southbound track from Brisbane