Red Flags on grass at YSSY

Darren Butterworth · #1 5th June 2011, 01:14 PM

Maybe a Nigel question.

I was taxiing out to 16L on VH-VUI the other day and on a grass patch near B4? (I left gate 36) there were dozens of little red flags covering the patch.

They're like the little flags I've seen on ACI. What are they there for?

Darren

Nathan Long · #2 5th June 2011, 02:58 PM

Water Hazard?

Grant Smith · #3 5th June 2011, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Darren Butterworth

there were dozens of little red flags covering the patch

Probably Nige's latest victim

Nigel C · #4 5th June 2011, 05:09 PM

The red flags mark out where underground cables and services are located, so that when the T2 terminal extension begins they'll know where to dig by hand.

It's not a good look when an excavator digs up dirt with strings of lighting/communications cables hanging out of it...

Darren Butterworth · #5 6th June 2011, 06:32 PM

thanks Nige