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General Discussion / Re: Airports denying IFR services during an event.
« on: April 11, 2020, 03:59:43 PM »
Lonnie,
As someone pointed out that arrival slots are at a premium during an event into the airport. I will speak to Philly as it comes to the FAA. The optimal arrival rate that the FAA does is 60 per hour. So with 277 arrivals with the optimal arrival rate being met for 5 hours straight would allow for 300 arrivals. You ask for your practice approaches. That on average would lets say be 6 or 7 in an hour. If that is for the whole event than that is 35 arrival slots in optimal conditions. Now lets say the controllers did their best to hit 50 an hour. That means it will take 6 hours to accept all of the arrivals and that is not including your practice approaches.
A better example for you to be of help was they had an OTS checkride up at CYWG. You could have got your practice approaches and helped the controller up there by doing them.
As someone pointed out that arrival slots are at a premium during an event into the airport. I will speak to Philly as it comes to the FAA. The optimal arrival rate that the FAA does is 60 per hour. So with 277 arrivals with the optimal arrival rate being met for 5 hours straight would allow for 300 arrivals. You ask for your practice approaches. That on average would lets say be 6 or 7 in an hour. If that is for the whole event than that is 35 arrival slots in optimal conditions. Now lets say the controllers did their best to hit 50 an hour. That means it will take 6 hours to accept all of the arrivals and that is not including your practice approaches.
A better example for you to be of help was they had an OTS checkride up at CYWG. You could have got your practice approaches and helped the controller up there by doing them.