Pea soup Sydney

[Sarah C]

Sarah, please refrain from quoting the whole previous post in your message. Thank you - mod

Yep - it is amazing how much it has cleared. You can see all the runways and visibility is good. Now it is just a case of organising aircraft to arrive.

[Nigel C]

Originally Posted by Philip Argy

Four or five a/c have landed in the last 20 mins but the fog seems to be rolling in more so I expect closure any time soon.

Even in fog, the airport doesn't 'close'.

[Matt_L]

Originally Posted by Tim Bowrey

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9V-SKH is apparently opperating SQ221 this morning.

Youll be pleased to know it is SKH Tim and its currently at FL292 coming back to sydney with QFA6D not far ahead. Theyve probs got good 45 mins left before they arrive.

Thai 993, Cathay 111, Virgin 201, Etihad 450 all still on ground at Melb per my radar so their 10 am etas looking very unlikely.

QF128 VH-OEC and N36GV approaching Sydney, JAL 771 JA711J as well approaching.

QF108 vh-oeb departed BNE not long ago for syd, as did QF82 adelaide sydney. Also Picking up a JQ811 sydney Christchurch tracking back down to sydney- not sure if this one could be radar error like QF82 ....

[Stefan Perkas]

Matt,

QF 82 is not an error. Acually it is a scheduled flight every Thursday, Saturday and Monday. The aircraft arrives in Adelaide from Singapore an then goes onto sydney.

[Adrian B]

I ride to work and my path takes me under the YMML rwy 34 right turn to final. Suffice to say it was a conga line on Bolte arrivals, much heavier than normal. My understanding is that generally the tower cancells STAR and vectors a shortened base before a right turn onto finals. Definately not today.

[Matt_L]

Originally Posted by Stefan Perkas

Matt,

QF 82 is not an error. Acually it is a scheduled flight every Thursday, Saturday and Monday. The aircraft arrives in Adelaide from Singapore an then goes onto sydney.

Yeah mate,

but very unusual that itd go to BNE with such a short flight from ADL it would have recieved forecasts of fog even before departure.


Going to BNE doesnt help its cause.

[David Knight]

JQ811 is a new early morning Jetstar flight that operates from Brisbane to Sydney. It started about 2 weeks ago, JQ810 SYD/BNE 0620/0755, JQ811 BNE/SYD 0825/1000.

VH-VWX was operating this flight M-F last week.

[Bernie P]

I was on DJ810 this morning to Melb. We left around 20-30 mins late... Was interesting watching the DJ in front of us 'dissapear' whilst thundering down 16R!

When we got into MELB, there was a lot of traffic there, all from SYD?! Interesting all the same...

[Gerard M]

I saw a great shot of a plane coming into Sydney with a complete whiteout underneath! The fog/mist is starting to roll in through the Hills district at the moment. It was getting reallll thick through Kurrajong and Richmond on my way through at around 5.

Whats it like at Sydney at the moment? The atis says:

Visibility: 10KM IN HAZE

[Nigel C]

It's been saying 10k in haze for a fair bit of the day.

The forecast for the airport tomorrow says only a 10% chance of fog in the morning from 0200-0900 if there are significant breaks in the cloud overnight.