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Weather Impacts to Philadelphia Air Traffic Operations

Weather Impacts to Philadelphia Air Traffic Operations. National Weather Service Workshop. David Conley, FAA. June 6, 2006. Aerial Photo of PHL Tower/TRACON. Aerial Photo of PHL Intl Airport looking south. Weather Challenges:. Lightning Impedes flight operations Inhibits ramp operation

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Weather Impacts to Philadelphia Air Traffic Operations

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  1. Weather Impacts to Philadelphia Air Traffic Operations National Weather Service Workshop David Conley, FAA June 6, 2006

  2. Aerial Photo of PHL Tower/TRACON

  3. Aerial Photo of PHL Intl Airport looking south

  4. Weather Challenges: • Lightning • Impedes flight operations • Inhibits ramp operation • Risk to Equipment

  5. Weather Challenges: • Low ceilings • Low Visibilities

  6. WINTER FLYING CAN PRESENT SOME UNIQUE CHALLENGES . . . . . Fog, particular rolling river fog

  7. Challenges: • Micro bursts • Thunderstorms

  8. Challenges: • Winter Weather • Ice • Snow

  9. Operational decisions: minimize the amount of time an aircraft spends on the ground after being deiced/anti-iced!

  10. Air TrafficDemand is Growing

  11. PHL Traffic Trend since Sept 2001

  12. DHL B747 departing PHL

  13. Air Traffic Density

  14. Delay Causes Sept 04-Mar 05

  15. Delay Causes

  16. PHILADELPHIA DELAY CAUSES * March data through the 10th Snow Snow

  17. What do we need? • Accurate forecasting down to fine grain details. • Precise ceiling heights • Visibility • Wind direction and speed • Times of changes

  18. What do we need? One-stop shopping vs. sorting through several weather forecast providers and draw an instinctive conclusion.

  19. Why do we need it? • Planning of arrival/departure rates • Managing of ATC System via TMI’s* • *GS, GDP, AFP, MIT, time-based metering, etc. • Distribution of resources • Staffing • Equipment

  20. PHL Airport Layout

  21. ILS RWY 9R Approach

  22. Minimums for Converging ILS RWY 17 Approach

  23. Questions?

  24. A question for you….

  25. Is this how clouds are really made?

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