Fog

beesakopie · Dec 8th, 2007, 09:54

Will be flying to Delhi in Jan 2008...what's the story regarding fog? flights delayed/cancelled? We are to be landing in Delhi at about 2300 hours....

capt_mahajan · Dec 8th, 2007, 10:03

Scroll down and read under 'Similar threads'

January, 2300, expect delays.

paulie90 · Dec 12th, 2007, 09:47

the fog in Dehli is for real made all the worst by the incredible pollution.
stepping off the plane you are greeted by the haze and that's inside the airport terminal!!

edwardseco · Dec 12th, 2007, 10:45

Its famous so..

beesakopie · Dec 12th, 2007, 10:56

I've been reading that it can be rather notorious : even the railways have now pulled out an British Raj relic called the "fog signal detonator". You can read that story here :

http://tiny.cc/Fog

I was reading elsewhere that airport authorities are gearing up for more that 150 hours of delays...and all centred around December - February !!!

crvlvr · Dec 13th, 2007, 00:06

Get this.. International flights into
Delhi are not delayed by fog. But, most domestic flights are. Why? Because of a shortage of instrument rated pilots on domestic flights. In order to operate under low visibility conditions an airport should have proper guidance systems and the pilot should be instrument rated (so as to use those guidance systems effectively).

http://www.expressindia.com/news/ful...p?newsid=78943

karuna · Dec 13th, 2007, 00:13

OK I wish I hadn't read that.

International flights out of Delhi were definitely delayed in Jan last year, and it was foggy, but whether the two were related....? The airport was a nightmare that day.

Incidentally I rather liked the fog. It made the city kind of strange and unearthly, much less in-your-face, you know the way fog seems to mute things? I enjoyed Delhi in the early morning fog, before everything had woken up and got going.

Dec 8th, 2007, 09:54	#1
beesakopie Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Wallis and Futuna (Republique Francaise) Posts: 82	Fog Will be flying to Delhi in Jan 2008...what's the story regarding fog? flights delayed/cancelled? We are to be landing in Delhi at about 2300 hours....

Dec 12th, 2007, 09:47	#3
paulie90 Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: BOULDER, CO. Posts: 20	fog it is the fog in Dehli is for real made all the worst by the incredible pollution. stepping off the plane you are greeted by the haze and that's inside the airport terminal!! Last edited by paulie90 : Dec 13th, 2007 at 01:09.

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capt_mahajan (in charge of navel affairs) Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: India Posts: 10,113	Scroll down and read under 'Similar threads' January, 2300, expect delays.

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beesakopie Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Wallis and Futuna (Republique Francaise) Posts: 82	I've been reading that it can be rather notorious : even the railways have now pulled out an British Raj relic called the "fog signal detonator". You can read that story here : http://tiny.cc/Fog I was reading elsewhere that airport authorities are gearing up for more that 150 hours of delays...and all centred around December - February !!!

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crvlvr Guru Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Hollywood Posts: 4,474	Get this.. International flights into Delhi are not delayed by fog. But, most domestic flights are. Why? Because of a shortage of instrument rated pilots on domestic flights. In order to operate under low visibility conditions an airport should have proper guidance systems and the pilot should be instrument rated (so as to use those guidance systems effectively). http://www.expressindia.com/news/ful...p?newsid=78943

Dec 13th, 2007, 00:13	#7
karuna The cat's mother Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: UK Posts: 1,719	OK I wish I hadn't read that. International flights out of Delhi were definitely delayed in Jan last year, and it was foggy, but whether the two were related....? The airport was a nightmare that day. Incidentally I rather liked the fog. It made the city kind of strange and unearthly, much less in-your-face, you know the way fog seems to mute things? I enjoyed Delhi in the early morning fog, before everything had woken up and got going.

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