EGLL has a ground hold in effect for aircraft departing to EGBB. Expect a ground hold of 10-20 minutes while departing to EGBB
Effective 031817 17:38Z
Until 031817 19:38Z
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Too much traffic, right?
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I like this. We should have a NOTAM thread, make it a wiki and then add and remove NOTAMs as we go…?
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I guess the same counts for EGBB? I’ve been holding in the air for 15 min now :(
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Yeah, I’ve just landed after being vectored around the top of EGBB and back down for 50 miles…
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Hence why we are holding departures
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It would be better if each NOTAM have an individual topic (but keep in mind the forum rules, don’t create NOTAMs all day long). If we squish all NOTAMs into one topic, the discussion would be all over the place.
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I guess I’ll fly in an hour or so and hope more departures can be made…
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What’s a ground hold?
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10/10 would not recommend, its sh*it at the moment
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You won’t be able to depart for a while, holding position on the ground.
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Basically, it will take ages to get off the ground, and then it will take ages to land at Birmingham. Not recommended at all after I took an hour to do the flight
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Oh ok, I suppose I can get used to it, I’ve stayed on the ground for 10 mins before
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Sheesh, never seen the expert server that busy, cool!
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they should add a ATC called delivery witch will give you your lets say: Dep clearance (what ever airport), QNH, SQK and Dep route and after that they should say: Contact ground on [Frequencie] expect a delay up to 10-20 mins. Or they should a feature where you have your own DEP slot and you push and start at that time of your DEP slot, so when aircraft are holding short of a RWY there not holding short half way down a full length taxi way its all flowing at a normal constant speed!
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Clearance delivery is a ways off from being implemented into IF. But I agree in this case it would have been nice to have.
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If you can’t depart the airport, why would they clear you to your destination? In that case, wouldn’t they just delay your clearance until the hold is lifted?
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Expert server was massive! Lol it was jam packed. I got out of EGBB with my FVA team just before it was hit with traffic. I landed at EGLL and left. I went back to LiveFlight and checked it out…I am so glad I was gone before the traffic hit, man I feel and for those who had to wait but what an adventure!
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well in that case you will just have a bigger delay, you will be able to DEP because lets say London Heathrow [EGLL, LHR] Aircraft can land on one RWY and Departures can go off the other RWY so if you are on of the first who spawns in you will get to DEP first and every would have a certain time for DEP and if someone leaves the DEP slots will be push forward to keep a nice flow of traffic
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