The Pilotman

It is used. My understanding is that when winds are light, aircraft are already sequenced using the minimum allowed separation. When there are significant headwinds on the approach path, aircraft are still flying the same airspeed (speed relative to the air) as on a calm day, but their ground speed (speed over the ground) is reduced. This means that the time gap between landing aircraft is increased even though the distance gap is the same. Therefore fewer landings can occur in a given period. What TBS does is allow the distance gap to be reduced whilst getting the time gap closer to that of a calm day, therefore increasing the arrival rate. The rationale behind this is that the likelihood of encountering wake turbulence is reduced when there is some wind.

Since the EU recategorisation of wake turbulence, the “heavy” wake turbulence category has been spilt into three; super heavy (A380), upper heavy (A330/340, B747, B777 and B787) and lower heavy (A300/310, B757 and B767). Looking at your screenshot, the sequence then is lower heavy, medium, upper heavy x 3 and another lower heavy.

I’ll bet there are a few of you who were sorry when Tandy closed…

Utterly convincing and one of the best images to appear on this thread. Brilliant!

There was a sleeper service between Poole and Scotland at that time.

Not necessarily…

Class 33 on Mk3 sleepers? No, that never happened…. Flickr photo by Alister Betts.

Today’s Deltic (C3448) is, based on the lack of paint above the windows, 55020 NIMBUS.

J1644 is D9008 THE GREEN HOWARDS

That’s brilliant modelling. Bravo!

Sir, I’m not sure you’ve got the gist of this thread. Out of the box buildings and rolling stock, and unballasted track can hardly be called realistic. As has been mentioned before, there are many places on RMWeb to post work in progress images.

And that ferrywagon in VTG livery that it’s pulling!

If that was with Flybe then you won’t be going…

Yes, but in aviation, as well as on the railways, old habits die hard.

The terms RNP and RNAV are both in common usage. I’ve never heard anyone use the term “RFT” and would be scratching my head if I did. “Runway condition” and “braking action” are the most frequently used terms when a pilot wants to know what the runway surface state is.

Brian, Is it possible that they asked for an “RNP” approach? That would be a fairly common request to that controller. It’s an approach to a runway using satellite based navigation rather than ground based radio aids.

Indeed, I’ve got a couple somewhere in the “to do” pile.

I hope Bachmann are considering adapting the tooling to produce the original Tiphook KPA bogie aggregate wagons from which these were converted. It doesn’t look like there would be too much to do to, tooling-wise. And it would be something interesting to hook on the back of a pair of 33s or 37s, or a 56, 59 or 60…

According to yesterday’s update on their website: “N/2mm Class 59 – we’ve agreed a production slot with the factory for the 59s so our order book will close on 31 March 2023”

The caption on Flickr says, “Single Power Car 43180 is in charge of the 10.35 Paignton Paddington {Fo} screams away from Dawlish on 12 August 1988.” Whilst it’s possible that a NE/SW set was used on an internal WR service, that would be very unusual, but not as unusual as a Network SouthEast coach being in the consist.

It doesn’t appear in any of the three pictures so I’m guessing that the TfW class 67 was pulling/pushing the Mk4 coaches and DVT.

The pictures were taken at Reading, so I think the poster has posted them on the grounds that that’s not somewhere that that stock/livery would normally be seen.

If you think about it, there weren’t that many possibilities given that there weren’t that many Network SouthEast routes that used loco-hauled stock. They also appeared on Liverpool Street to King’s Lynn sets as well as those mentioned by @Simon Bendall above. It seems a bit strange that whoever told you that NSE FKs were used on “other routes” didn’t tell you what those other routes actually were.

D9004 QUEEN’S OWN HIGHLANDER had a single line nameplate so your picture is of D9014 THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON’S REGIMENT. And the unidentified Deltic at Swayfield in picture C1620 is 55007 PINZA. Merry Christmas, David.

I presume you mean the chalk one on the hill, Mike? 😆