Lrgt From United States of America, joined Jul 2004, 710 posts, RR: 0 Posted (8 years 11 months 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 3886 times:
As odd as it sounds, some flights in Africa are ETOPS over land because of no diversion airports in remote areas. Does anyone know which routes are ETOPS and don't go over any water?
Worldoftui From Sweden, joined Aug 2007, 0 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (8 years 11 months 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 3683 times:
I heard that the ATC in parts of Africa shut down at night, there fore they have to follow rules similar to those aircraft crossing the North Atlantic.
BA From United States of America, joined May 2000, 11141 posts, RR: 61 Reply 3, posted (8 years 11 months 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 3584 times:
MEA had to get 120-minute ETOPs certification on its A330-200s for its Beirut (BEY) - Kano (KAN) - Accra (ACC) and Beirut (BEY) - Lagos (LOS) - Abidjan (ABJ) flights.
UAL747DEN From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2226 posts, RR: 12 Reply 4, posted (8 years 11 months 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 3560 times:
This is nothing new, ETOPS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WATER!
UAL747DEN From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2226 posts, RR: 12 Reply 8, posted (8 years 11 months 21 hours ago) and read 3260 times:
LRGT,
Im not exactly sure what you are talking about but ill try to clarify.
ETOPS has nothing to do with water. It just so happens that there are not airports on the water so ETOPS is related to over water flights most often. ETOPS Regulates the distance in minutes that you are from an airport that you can land at. For example, if you are ETOPS 120, you may be 120min from an airport that can handle your type of aircraft while flying to wherever you are going. This is in case an engine goes out on a twin jet.
Now airlines that want to fly over water for long amounts of time have to also be rated for over water flight. This means that the have to carry life vests, boats and do a water safety demo. B6 might have done the demo on a FLL flight because they were going to come in from the East. F9 has also recently received this rating and when flying out of RSW now the route ya over the gulf. It makes the flight a lot faster.
Hope this helps
Coa764 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 328 posts, RR: 3 Reply 9, posted (8 years 11 months 20 hours ago) and read 3234 times:
UAL747DEN-Ill be flying soon!!!
Then learn the difference. A flight enters the ETOPS environment ONLY when it is 60 minutes form and adequate airport.. Adequate meaning it has a runway and is open (No you do not need weather minimums.. with weather minimums that airport becomes suitable to list as and alterante).... B6/F9 were ETOPS only if the flight was not within 60 minutes form an adequate airport. Depending on what airway B6 was on and whether or not Bermuda is open would be the deciding factor on an ETOPS flight plan to SJU. This whole ETOPS issue seems to be confused with the 50 nautical mile rule. You have to have rafts if you are 50 NM from shore.. This meaning any land mass and not an airport (shoreline to shoreline). The FAA does offer exemptions for both the AR and the Gulf routes (the debate can be weather or not this includes A511/A761).... Regardless of what kind of flight plan the aircraft is operating under the idea is that the folks in the back do not know, will not know and will have an uneventful flight.
[Edited 2004-07-25 07:23:39]
Please oh please Mr Moderator Nazi, dont delete my thread.
UAL747DEN From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2226 posts, RR: 12 Reply 10, posted (8 years 11 months 20 hours ago) and read 3185 times:
COA764,
You should edit your post again because you are basically saying exactly what I said. ETOPS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WATER! Also please show me in my post where I mentioned SJU because I cant see it anywhere. I also never said anything about F9 or B6 flying ETOPS routes. I think that you are the one confused here.
Coa764 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 328 posts, RR: 3 Reply 11, posted (8 years 11 months 19 hours ago) and read 3146 times:
This is in case an engine goes out on a twin jet.
Now airlines that want to fly over water for long amounts of time have to also be rated for over water flight. This means that the have to carry life vests, boats and do a water safety demo. B6 might have done the demo on a FLL flight because they were going to come in from the East. F9 has also recently received this rating and when flying out of RSW now the route ya over the gulf. It makes the flight a lot faster.
Read your own text there high speed.
The topic of this thread is ETOPS yet you are talking about B6 and F9 receiving an ETOPS rating to fly over water from FLL. That is NOT ETOPS.. I was trying to clarify the difference between being 60 minutes from an adequate airport and 50 mile form a shoreline. Two VERY different rules not to be confused.You said F9 has also recently received this rating and when flying out of RSW now the route ya over the gulf. ... The Gulf routes are not ETOPS because on Q100/Q102 an aircraft is not 60 min from an adequate airport yet they are 50 NM from shore so without the exemption those flights cannot fly the Gulf routes without rafts. You need to edit your post...
Please oh please Mr Moderator Nazi, dont delete my thread.
Jwenting From Netherlands, joined Apr 2001, 10213 posts, RR: 21 Reply 12, posted (8 years 11 months 18 hours ago) and read 3105 times:
Life vest demonstrations are mandatory for any flight carrying passengers that will pass over a body of water more than X miles from land (where X is a very small number).
ETOPS is mandatory for any aircraft with less than 3 engines which will fly more than 1 hour away from the nearest airport it could safely land at with an engine out at any time during its flight.
That of course means that ETOPS is only ever required on flights of over 2 hours
Flights over water are more likely to involve ETOPS conditions as there are so few airports in the north Atlantic of the Pacific, but over land it is possible in for example Africa and Siberia.
UAL747DEN From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2226 posts, RR: 12 Reply 14, posted (8 years 11 months 4 hours ago) and read 2915 times:
Coa764,
Do you not see in my posts where I say in BIG LETTERS that ETOPS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WATER, I say that they are not the same thing! And that airlines that want to fly over water must have a DIFFERENT over water rating that has nothing to do with ETOPS. If you would read everything you would not make yourself look like a fool.
SafetyDude From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 3795 posts, RR: 16 Reply 16, posted (8 years 11 months 4 hours ago) and read 2876 times:
While there are many airports in Africa, not all are suitable for handling a large aircraft, and even then, some airlines would prefer not to fly into those airports in emergency situations. ETOPS also permits the airline to take a route that does not go over airspace that they do not want to be in.
BA's G-BNWM, G-BNWN, and G-BNWH (amongst others) are ETOPS 767s. WM and WN are used quite frequently for Africa routes, although WH is the MAN-JFK aircraft. To get a complete list of BA 767 "Africa" aircrafts, do a search on them.
Rick767 From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2000, 2662 posts, RR: 52 Reply 17, posted (8 years 11 months 4 hours ago) and read 2872 times:
Arcano
The map is not accurate, many of the African airfields assumed to be open on that map are not open by night, therefore after the hours of darkess ETOPS120 or 138 is needed on these routes.
This brings home the fact that it is all about suitable airfields not just adequate ones, so ETOPS varies depending on the weather at each station, time of day, etc...
It is not a blanket rule.
I used to love the smell of Jet-A in the morning...
Lrgt From United States of America, joined Jul 2004, 710 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (8 years 11 months 4 hours ago) and read 2861 times:
I am aware of what ETOPS means. The reason I started this thread was I was shocked after the person insisted JFK/FLL and JFK/SJU was ETOPS. I figured some people on Airliners need a lesson on that so I thought this was a good topic for that.
SafetyDude From United States of America, joined Sep 2001, 3795 posts, RR: 16 Reply 19, posted (8 years 11 months 4 hours ago) and read 2855 times:
I will add, for the record, that on all of my jetBlue flights, they have always shown the lifevest as part of the safety demo. I do not know why someone insisted that the 320s are ETOPS.
Coa764 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 328 posts, RR: 3 Reply 20, posted (8 years 11 months 4 hours ago) and read 2853 times:
F9 has also recently received this rating and when flying out of RSW now the route ya over the gulf. It makes the flight a lot faster. And that airlines that want to fly over water must have a DIFFERENT over water rating that has nothing to do with ETOPS
Then why did you bring up F9 flying over the gulf in an ETOPS thread? I read your posts and to someone doesn't understand could mistake F9 is flying ETOPS over the gulf. I was trying to clarify that when flying 50 NM from shore all you need it rafts/vests and nothing more. If your flight has rafts and vest and heads out over water 60 minutes from an adequate airport then it is in ETOPS.. My point was that F9 will never be in an ETOPS environment flying the gulf/AR routes...
Arcano
While your map did include all of Africa one thing you have to take into account is were the ETOPS alternates are located, are they open and do they have weather minimums to list as an alternate.... If you only have a few ETOPS alternates then you can loose a lot of that coverage to the point of not being able to operate on certain routes.
Please oh please Mr Moderator Nazi, dont delete my thread.
UAL747DEN From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 2226 posts, RR: 12 Reply 21, posted (8 years 11 months 3 hours ago) and read 2846 times:
Coa764,
You are exactly about F9 and the gulf. The thread was not about only ETOPS but about people being amazed that there were ETOPS routes over Africa. I was trying to show that there were 2 different regs and that water and ETOPS are not the same. I think that for people reading all the threads all the way down they would understand that but yes if you just started at my post you might be confused.
BA From United States of America, joined May 2000, 11141 posts, RR: 61 Reply 23, posted (8 years 10 months 3 weeks 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 2660 times:
Donder10,
MEA's West African routes in the summer time depart Beirut at around 12PM because of the increased fleet utilization for the summer season.
During the rest of the year, the flights are red-eyes departing Beirut at 2:05AM.
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