whisky-dave wrote
Rod Speed wrote
whisky-dave wrote
Vir Campestris wrote
whisky-dave wrote

This will or so they think will enable them to
fly more planes as theere can be more routes.

The bottle neck is the runways at the airport.
That's why Heathrow wants to build a new one.

Not all planes fly to heathrow.

Heathrow is the one with fewer runways than it needs for the traffic
volume.

They were plans to add runways to other airports or to build a new London
airlort.

Irrelevant to the fact that Heathrow only has two parallel runways
and that its by far the highest volume airport in Britain.

The economical cruise altitude rises as the plane gets lighter,
so they want to climb gently all the way across the ocean.

But they don't do that.

True, but thats for other reasons.

Yes because they donl;t like losing radar contact with planes,

Thats a lie with the long haul flights over the ocean. There is no
alternative.

because then no one knoes where they are for sure

Thats another pig ignorant lie, ACARS does.

and that;s not good for air traffic contol.

Even sillier and more pig ignorant than you usually
manage with long haul flights over the ocean.

They don't take the shortest route from A-B
they take a route where they can be tracked.

More pig ignorant silly **** with ACARS which
allows aircraft to be tracked anywhere now.

Didnlt find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 did it.

Because they chose to turn theirs off to save on the cost.

Friend flew from gatwick to cacun on tuesday explan
why they didn't just fly directly across the ocean

Because the system is moving to the new system which
allows all ACARS equipped aircraft to be tracked anywhere.

Sure a systemn from 1978, being replaced by GPS.

ACARS isnt being replaced by GPS.