An225 From Israel, joined May 2005, 165 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 9 months 1 week 9 hours ago) and read 4484 times:
Hello all,
Arkia Israel Airlines is operating its 757-300 equipment on the route TLV-ETH sometimes fully packed with tourists (around 260 pax per flight). This is a rather short route, ~500 km. Not much fuel is needed and no cargo is taken.
Looking at the Israeli AIP, ETH runway length is 1,900 m'.
Looking at Boeing's technical data, MTOW on standard day + 14C you need a 2,900 m' runway if you operate on 270,000lbs at sea level. If you want to take off and not end up in Eilat bay (or the sewage facilities/algae plantation) you need to reduce weight to 230,000lbs. If you take off on a very hot day (above 40C) the MTOW will be probably reduced to around 208,000lbs.
Looking again at Boeing's technical data, MZFW on 0-500 nautical miles route must be 210,000lbs.
I wonder how they are able to load a 260 pax with all their luggage (believe me they have plenty) and still take-off with such limitations. Comments anyone?
tb727 From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 1373 posts, RR: 4 Reply 1, posted (1 year 9 months 1 week 7 hours ago) and read 4400 times:
Quoting An225 (Thread starter): I wonder how they are able to load a 260 pax with all their luggage (believe me they have plenty) and still take-off with such limitations. Comments anyone?
You already kinda answered it, If they are really going with a full load of pax, then they are leaving fuel off. You are either leaving people or fuel behind to make a certain weight for the runway and that weight changes throughout the day with conditions such as wind and temperature changes. That being said, it's hard to say without looking at the airlines performance data for this specific flight and their airplanes, the Boeing data is pretty general.
Stitch From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 26682 posts, RR: 83 Reply 2, posted (1 year 9 months 1 week 6 hours ago) and read 4371 times:
Quoting An225 (Thread starter): I wonder how they are able to load a 260 pax with all their luggage (believe me they have plenty) and still take-off with such limitations. Comments anyone?
Pax and bags alone should not get the plane to MZFW so even loading fuel they may still be below MZFW and therefore within the TOW necessary for field performance.
rfields5421 From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 6140 posts, RR: 25 Reply 5, posted (1 year 9 months 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 3949 times:
At the very southern tip of Israel on the Red Sea coast. A very tight airspace with Aqaba Jordan airport, AQJ, about 3 nm away, the Jordan border less than a mile away. Egypt is about 4 nm the other way with Taba, TCP, about 8 nm away.
N685FE From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 450 posts, RR: 13 Reply 6, posted (1 year 9 months 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 3745 times:
Quoting rfields5421 (Reply 5): At the very southern tip of Israel on the Red Sea coast. A very tight airspace with Aqaba Jordan airport, AQJ, about 3 nm away, the Jordan border less than a mile away. Egypt is about 4 nm the other way with Taba, TCP, about 8 nm away.
So in a situation like this, do the three nations allow airlines to over fly a neighboring nation to allow the a/c to line up? Is the Red Sea considered international air space being that close to three nations? Just wondering what the ops procedures are for such a tight air space.
fly707 From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 343 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 2790 times:
Quoting N685FE (Reply 6): So in a situation like this, do the three nations allow airlines to over fly a neighboring nation to allow the a/c to line up? Is the Red Sea considered international air space being that close to three nations? Just wondering what the ops procedures are for such a tight air space.
Yes you can fly between the three airports normally.
Fabo From Slovakia, joined Aug 2005, 1111 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 2514 times:
I just looked up ETH in Google Maps. Wow, I don't think I ever saw such a tightly packed airport.
That said, let's take a look at what actually is the basis for take-off calculations.
There are basically two limits you have to cram into - climb performance requirements and runway lenght-related performance.
As you have noted, Eilat has sea on one side, and what looks like pretty much flat desert on the other side, what means, you don't really have to limit yourself by climb. Which is lucky, since you can trade climb performance for runway performance via use of higher flap settings, IIRC, a 757 will allow pretty much any position between 1 and 20 degrees.
On longer, but climb-limited runways, you would want to use the smallest possible flap setting, and then trade runway for climb rate, here you are doing it the other way.
I don't have performance data for a 757-300 though, so I can't relly help you with specific numbers. I could do 752, but I guess that wouldn't be much help.
(I realize you probably know this, but Tech Ops section is a great place to learn, and I would have been glad to have found a little insight - hopefully, I did not put any errors in.)
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mandala499 From Indonesia, joined Aug 2001, 6175 posts, RR: 74 Reply 9, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 2407 times:
Quoting Fabo (Reply 8): As you have noted, Eilat has sea on one side, and what looks like pretty much flat desert on the other side, what means, you don't really have to limit yourself by climb. Which is lucky, since you can trade climb performance for runway performance via use of higher flap settings, IIRC, a 757 will allow pretty much any position between 1 and 20 degrees.
On longer, but climb-limited runways, you would want to use the smallest possible flap setting, and then trade runway for climb rate, here you are doing it the other way.
Well, it's not flat in terms of obstacles unfortunately.
Cubsrule From United States of America, joined May 2004, 21215 posts, RR: 19 Reply 10, posted (1 year 7 months 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 2402 times:
Quoting mandala499 (Reply 9): But am sure the 752 would find such a situation a doddle... 753... dunno...
I don't have the numbers in front of me, but my experience as a passenger is that when the 752/753 are light (short routes and/or less than full airplanes), the runway performance isn't much different. FWIW, I think the same is true with some other families as well (I've been on WN flights on both 733s and 73Gs with really light loads and both rocket off the airport).
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But am sure the 752 would find such a situation a doddle... 753... dunno...
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