Wheel Nut:
Who is in charge of snow clearing in Heathrow, not scaryfart by any chance?
If he is then you won’t see many of his ramblings when I get my hands on him, my wife is stuck in England because of the LHR fiasco, she was due to fly here Saturday, then Sunday, now she’s due to arrive in Calgary (a mere 850 miles away from home) on Xmas day at 3pm, her connecting flight is 7pm Boxing day so I’ve got to drive a 1700mile round trip to pick her up, all because of a bit of snow FFS, we’ve got it up to our armpits here, planes still fly
I’m not a happy bunny right now, so if it is you cranialvoid, run and hide, you’re on my list
Blimey yet again I get the blame and it’s got zb all to do with me.I keep telling you that we get a few inches of snow here and the place is zb’d but you keep saying they should just park up and wait for the weather to get a bit warmer which will probably be around April this year. But my connection with airport trucks was all fire fighting ones and LHR was even to tight fisted to buy any of the best ones because they preferred using a lot of smaller ones instead of a few larger ones instead and that was even before I went on the council. :roll But coincidentally one of the reasons seems to be that planes have got frozen onto the ground so they can’t shift them away from the terminal .So obviously your idea of rolling the thing a bit after a minute or two from landing did’nt work and they should have listened to my advice about putting something under the zb wheels instead.
4 engines on the plane i’m afraid, now if only they’d put 2 on with 2 tag engines it wouldn’t have got stuck
They tried something like that with the DC10 and that’s why Laker went broke because everyone was too scared to fly on them in the end. But I’ bet that one of those old 6x6 Pathfinder crash tenders could have pulled a frozen in Jumbo away from the dock if they ran the V16 Detroit up to around 2000 rpm and then put the Allison into zb reverse.Either that or it would have just pulled all the landing gear off it.
Should be speaking to your planner PDQ,see if you can at least get an earner out of the trip.Nightmare for you,merry xmas FFS !! A mate of mine drove to Calgary today with his family,to fly back to England tomorrow,he’s not sure it’s going to happen now.According to my sister-inlaw at Gatwick,all the de-icer ordered for the planes is stuck somewhere on the continent,probably be the wrong sort anyhow,
flat to the mat:
Should be speaking to your planner PDQ,see if you can at least get an earner out of the trip.Nightmare for you,merry xmas FFS !! A mate of mine drove to Calgary today with his family,to fly back to England tomorrow,he’s not sure it’s going to happen now.According to my sister-inlaw at Gatwick,all the de-icer ordered for the planes is stuck somewhere on the continent,probably be the wrong sort anyhow,
I’m pencilled in on a Friday tip and reload in Calgary, if she can’t get anything sooner then thats what I’ll do, book a couple of nights in a decent hotel up there and roll back east on Boxing Day, merry [zb]ing xmas ho ho ho
merc0447:
Dont know mate just a picture i found on the t’interweb
But they’ve got it down to a fine art.
Yeah they certainly have, notice how the traffic all keeps moving when ALL the lanes are open, admittedly it’s in a place where they obviously get a decent amount of that white crap, so they kind of know how to behave in it, but even so, it’s a lot easier to do so when the roads are clear
I’m still puzzled as to where it is though, mile marker 158 somewhere, 1st correct answer gets a Curly Wurly
merc0447:
Dont know mate just a picture i found on the t’interweb
But they’ve got it down to a fine art.
Yeah they certainly have, notice how the traffic all keeps moving when ALL the lanes are open, admittedly it’s in a place where they obviously get a decent amount of that white crap, so they kind of know how to behave in it, but even so, it’s a lot easier to do so when the roads are clear
I’m still puzzled as to where it is though, mile marker 158 somewhere, 1st correct answer gets a Curly Wurly
The traffic seems to be moving ok on the other carrigeway.
merc0447:
Dont know mate just a picture i found on the t’interweb
But they’ve got it down to a fine art.
Yeah they certainly have, notice how the traffic all keeps moving when ALL the lanes are open, admittedly it’s in a place where they obviously get a decent amount of that white crap, so they kind of know how to behave in it, but even so, it’s a lot easier to do so when the roads are clear
I’m still puzzled as to where it is though, mile marker 158 somewhere, 1st correct answer gets a Curly Wurly
The traffic seems to be moving ok on the other carrigeway.
Would that be the opposite carriageway that is also free of snow due to having already been ploughed
merc0447:
Dont know mate just a picture i found on the t’interweb
But they’ve got it down to a fine art.
Yeah they certainly have, notice how the traffic all keeps moving when ALL the lanes are open, admittedly it’s in a place where they obviously get a decent amount of that white crap, so they kind of know how to behave in it, but even so, it’s a lot easier to do so when the roads are clear
I’m still puzzled as to where it is though, mile marker 158 somewhere, 1st correct answer gets a Curly Wurly
The traffic seems to be moving ok on the other carrigeway.
Would that be the opposite carriageway that is also free of snow due to having already been ploughed
merc0447:
Dont know mate just a picture i found on the t’interweb
But they’ve got it down to a fine art.
Yeah they certainly have, notice how the traffic all keeps moving when ALL the lanes are open, admittedly it’s in a place where they obviously get a decent amount of that white crap, so they kind of know how to behave in it, but even so, it’s a lot easier to do so when the roads are clear
I’m still puzzled as to where it is though, mile marker 158 somewhere, 1st correct answer gets a Curly Wurly
The traffic seems to be moving ok on the other carrigeway.
Would that be the opposite carriageway that is also free of snow due to having already been ploughed
Tis a bit of slush imo.
It is now the snowploughs have sorted it, they wouldn’t be ploughing the roads if there wasn’t snow on them, now would they
i saw 1 sat afternoon in our local municipal car park who did 2 laps without the plough blade down or without putting any grit(of which he was full of)down,now wtf is the point of that!!
But my connection with airport trucks was all fire fighting ones and LHR was even to tight fisted to buy any of the best ones because they preferred using a lot of smaller ones instead of a few larger ones instead and that was even before I went on the council. :roll But coincidentally one of the reasons seems to be that planes have got frozen onto the ground so they can’t shift them away from the terminal
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