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Miscellaneous => Other Topics => Screenshots => Topic started by: mezoo on January 12, 2014, 11:59:56 AM

Title: EDLW - Germanwings lands on second approach
Post by: mezoo on January 12, 2014, 11:59:56 AM
Late last night I heard a big noise from the EDLW airport (about 4km away).
Normally at that time of the day the airport is closing down.

D-AGWR had to abort the first landing attempt and probably had to put on full thrust to climb for the second approach.

Still trying to find out what happened.

Mezoo

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Title: Re: EDLW - Germanwings lands on second approach
Post by: Anmer on January 12, 2014, 12:14:29 PM
Most Go Arounds are caused by runway obstacles, such as an aircraft not clearing.
Title: Re: EDLW - Germanwings lands on second approach
Post by: mezoo on January 18, 2014, 04:04:27 PM
Same situation today - same aircraft, same flight, only approching from the west instead of from the east.
Just wonder if it was the same pilot  ;D

Weather is clear, with little wind.

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Title: Re: EDLW - Germanwings lands on second approach
Post by: Bethsalem on January 19, 2014, 09:31:05 AM
It might be crew training. If you look at my screenshots in "Reus Airspace", you'll see Vueling and Lufthansa doing similar things at the weekend.
Title: Re: EDLW - Germanwings lands on second approach
Post by: mezoo on January 19, 2014, 02:32:43 PM
That could be a possibility - Lufthansa does do crew training at EDLW but not with jets only small propeller craft (see a previous post of mine).

However acording to the GermanWings flight plan this is a scheduled flight !

Maybe it is as Anmer suggested but two times in a row would be pretty bad.
Yesterday a lot of private planes were flying around.
Only very few have Mode-S transponders.
Title: Re: EDLW - Germanwings lands on second approach
Post by: Anmer on January 19, 2014, 03:00:29 PM
Does German Wings have a scheduled arrival that matches the callsign and time?
Title: Re: EDLW - Germanwings lands on second approach
Post by: mezoo on January 19, 2014, 04:40:24 PM
This is a anapshot from their webpage.
Acording to that the flight 4U4599 should land at 17:00.
My last screenshot was at 17:11.

Why VRS and PP show the flightnumber as GWI4N is a mystery to me.

Searched other sites (e.g. libhomeradar, Flightaware,..) for more information but no luck there.

Edit : Finally got the english flightplan

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Title: Re: EDLW - Germanwings lands on second approach
Post by: Anmer on January 19, 2014, 04:52:30 PM
Quote from: mezoo on January 19, 2014, 04:40:24 PM
Why VRS and PP show the flightnumber as GWI4N is a mystery to me.

Maybe because that was the Flight ID entered in the FMS and transmitted by the aircraft in the message.
Title: Re: EDLW - Germanwings lands on second approach
Post by: mezoo on January 25, 2014, 04:11:45 PM
Today the flight was carried out by a different plane : D-AGWD.
And it landed on their first approach !

It is rather strange becase the other plane D-AGWR is (was ?) based in Dortmund and does the daily runs to Munich and London.

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