Emirates A345 tail strike - Page 13

Greg Wood · #**121** 19th June 2009, 04:28 PM

Departed Melbourne at 11.32hrs (AEST ) and landed at Perth at 14.18hrs (WST) as flight UAE7608 to ITB bay 52.
Cheers Greg

Fabian Lee · #**122** 19th June 2009, 08:38 PM

Any info if she will be landing in SIN for refuelling? Thank you.

Michael Mak · #**123** 19th June 2009, 08:55 PM

Fabian, it will stop at SIN after DPS. Quoted from the newspaper article posted by Andrew M:

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Senior pilots have said the low-altitude, four-day flight will consume copious quantities of fuel and cause the pilots to put down in Bali, Singapore, Dubai and Cairo before the final leg along the Mediterranean Sea to France.

Apparently it is heading to Toulouse.

Fabian Lee · #**124** 19th June 2009, 10:13 PM

Thanks Michael for the information.

Greg Wood · #**125** 20th June 2009, 07:07 AM

Its scheduled to depart Perth this morning at 09.00hrs (WST) as flight UAE7608 flying NON-STOP to Dubai with a flight time of 16hrs and flying at FL100.

Montague S · #**126** 20th June 2009, 09:29 AM

I flew SYD-PER lastnight and it was well over 5hrs, be a long day in the sky for the guys at EK, anyway, I will pop out and get some pics of her.

Fabian Lee · #**127** 20th June 2009, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Greg Wood

Its scheduled to depart Perth this morning at 09.00hrs (WST) as flight UAE7608 flying NON-STOP to Dubai with a flight time of 16hrs and flying at FL100.

Pardon my ignorance, but do you know what technical changes they made to ERG that now make flying non-stop at FL100 for 16h possible? After all it was originally supposed to make multiple fuel stops cos of high fuel consumption at FL100. Thank you.

Montague S · #**128** 20th June 2009, 12:13 PM

Certainly is flying nonstop, its well within range and I don't think fuel cost is really an issue.

Montague S · #**129** 20th June 2009, 12:47 PM

departed just before 10am.

Greg Wood · #**130** 20th June 2009, 07:17 PM

Fabian Lee,

Im sorry I don't know the answer to your question, It rotated early off the main North / South runway 03/21 (you can see photo on JS/Perth) great capture there by Monty Smith who ventured out in most unpleasant weather conditions to see it go. Emirates usually use A463 as there flight routing out from Perth so Im guessing this is / was the routing it took.
Checking the Dubai Airport's arrivals monitor, it shows the aircraft scheduled to arrive at 18.30hrs (LT) today 20/06 into terminal 3, the flight nature quotes: Pax extra - whatever that means. Cheers Greg