What would you like to know?
Print

Sunday Business Post: Complex, complicated and significant

On Thursday 5th October 2023, DAA told the Sunday Business Post newspaper that they are unable to implement our proposal describing it as “not workable” and using the words “complex”, “complicated” and “requiring significant changes” to the procedures. Of course they threw in “SAFETY” to scare off any who might question them.

On Sunday 8th October 2023, they unintentionally implemented it!

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/fr119#325b25b3

Ryanair flight FR119 performed a missed approach. Because the existing published missed approach route is dangerous, Air Traffic Control staff must intervene and redirect the aircraft every time one happens. In this case they sent the Ryanair jet on almost the exact missed approach path that AirNav has told Minister Jack Chambers cannot be done because it would interfere with the massive block of airspace reserved for the Aircorp.

So let’s have a look at the “not workable” proposal which we explain in a separate article. Here our proposed missed approach track is in yellow shown against the flight path actually flown by Ryanair under instruction from the Tower controllers at Dublin Airport.

The data shows that at the point where the two tracks diverge the aircraft was already at 2800 ft, leveling and accelerating, already well above the 2000ft ceiling of Weston airspace. They continued to gently climb to 4000 ft and managed to avoid both laterally and vertically infringing the blue block which it Aircorp reserved airspace around Baldonnell.

So then, far from not workable, they actually did it. They flew over Dublin city, D6 and D4 and no one lost their mind about the noise, a concern raised by AirNav about the 1/day missed approach, but not about 300+ departures over large towns in Meath.

Once again it is apparent that the proposal is perfectly workable. AirNav and Dublin airport could do this in a matter of months … IF THEY WANTED TO!

Table of Contents