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By the way... we are in 2019
Air Belgium in 2019

You work 25 days a month when there are not enough controllers... That's why they recruit now ;)
Otherwise, the basis is 35 hours per week (7 hours/day). If you work more than that, you accumulate overtime hours ("CP hours") and you can have more days off later (much later)...
You can work a great ...

The telephones failed as well. And do you think a handheld device would have enough power to reach an aircraft 60 NM away ?
There is a lot of redundant equipment at Steenokkerzeel, even backup radios, they just all failed.

airazurxtror wrote:There are works in progress at the west of the existing apron - to enlarge it, I presume - but also at the east of the terminal. Is it a new car parking ?

It's an enlargement of the apron on both sides. The western part will open in December.

No, the street is not yet open to traffic...

There are 12 stands plus 7 remote positions (since several weeks now). However you cannot load or unload passengers on those remote positions.
There are 12 Ryanair aircraft based, plus 2 Jetair. Well I think a 13th Ryanair aircraft has been based recently (but I'm not sure) and I have been told they ...

pressman wrote:Two rows can be parked - tail to tail .

No. Or rather, not yet.
For the location of the terminal, well they took the available space within the airport limits.

Those lines are already on Ryanair website...

As we can see in the ATIS the CAT III operations have started :

EBCI ATIS K 0950Z
EBCI INFORMATION
EXP VECTORING FOR ILS APPROACH ARR RWY25 DEP RWY25
RSCD RWY25 DAMP TRL FL045 LOW VISIBILITY OPERATION IN PROGRESS
040/6KT VIS 100M RVR RWY25 225M 250M 250M FZFG OVC100FT
TMS2 DPMS3 QNH 1013HPA
NOSIG ...

I use this for NOTAM :
http://www.belgocontrol.be/belgoweb/pub ... perational

Apparently Charleroi is now CAT III !
New NOTAM today :
A113/2009
Valid from : 27/01/2009 07:43 Until : 30/04/2009 13:59 EST
Text : ILS RWY 25 CAT III OPERATION CERTIFIED. MINIMA FOR LANDING 200M AND TAKE OFF 150M AVBL
It is good news, because the RVR now is 225 meters...

Nowadays some flights, when the wind is not strong enough to use runway 25, ask for runway 07 for their departures (less obstacles in this direction). So it's not very efficient for runway capacity (and also safety) to have departures from runway 07 and arrivals on runway 25 !
Moreover, a runway ...

EHAM/AMS had a pretty good weather yesterday morning (7 km VIS) but EBLG/LGG was very foggy (about 150 m RVR and ceiling 0 ft).
Even in CATIII operations you have to see something.

The minima are : 200 m visibility for take-off, 600 m for landing. André was wrong

CRL was not ILS CAT I at that time. The glidepath of the ILS is out of service due to the works north of the runway so it is localizer only approach. So the weather minimas are higher and they need 1200 m visibility and 460 ft ceiling minimum. That's why we got a lot of diversions and cancellations ...

For information Charleroi-Brussels South Airport is closed tomorrow. A NOTAM has been published :

A1204/2005
From : 07/10/2005 04:30 Until : 07/10/2005 21:00
Text : AD CLSD DUE TO INDUSTRIAL ACTION

Strange, we at EBCI we considered that part of our TMA has become class C!
Anyway tomorrow it's over!
(see you soon on the phone for TMA5 )