I see, thanks.
Yea we've had a few of those days...nights this summer, matter of fact i heard last thursday was especially bad. Overall though, it hasn't been as bad as it was last year, at least in my opinion. We had some absolutely helacious days then. Ya'll keeping the holdouts out there on the taxiways sure makes it easier on us. I mean, it's night-and-day.
I got another question now, especially for Seven, since you got all that airspace at your fingertips...an inquiring mind never stops, ya know? I understand why before/during/after bad weather, there's spacing needed for departing flights, whether it be 20, 30, whatever number of miles in between. I guess this is to ensure spacing is kept when those guys start zig zagging around the weather, correct? My question is one day i was monitoring tower and for some reason he was having to put something like 30 in between the eastbound European departures. There was no weather in the terminal area, and if i recall, none along the eastern seaboard as well. Why the need for that kinda spacing? Is it for the Gander folks, even though that's still 3 flying hours away? Surely they'd just let the D.C. or New York or Boston guys and gals figure all that out, no?
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