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re: OT pilots- What's your favorite plane to fly?
Posted on 7/16/21 at 12:05 am to Reservoir dawg
Posted on 7/16/21 at 12:05 am to Reservoir dawg
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Maybe possible from JFK.
You're talking west to east. Heycap is talking east to west. Whole different ballgame in the wind department.
And as he mentioned the problem is compounded by the fact that Johannesburg is at 5k+ feet. It gets hot there to boot. All that to say, if you're full of pax and cargo, you can only hold so much gas while bucking a headwind headed west. I've never flown a leg like that, but I can imagine fuel is a commodity.
HeyCap mentioned the 777LR having issues and I have to believe the A350 would really struggle as few airframes can compare to the triple in that regime.
It's a haul:
Edit: all that to say that it sounds like a good problem for a dispatcher.
This post was edited on 7/16/21 at 12:42 am
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Posted on 7/16/21 at 1:52 am to HerkFlyer
You can always divert to Ascension or St. Helena 
I hear the winds there are brutal.
I hear the winds there are brutal.
Posted on 7/16/21 at 9:39 am to HerkFlyer
I know a guy that flies that route for delta. He has told me some pretty evil stories about the thunderstorms around the equator.
Posted on 7/17/21 at 1:35 am to HerkFlyer
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You're talking west to east. Heycap is talking east to west. Whole different ballgame in the wind department.
Yes, winds are considered going east to west and I doubt the A359 could pull it off without major restrictions, but JHB-JFK is shorter than JHB-ATL by roughly an hour.
This post was edited on 7/17/21 at 1:38 am
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