When you are preparing your self for the flight you have , usually you check the weather, check the notams and get familiar with the airport where you are flying at, so when you arrive at the dispatch you feel quite good prepared for the day.
Then when you are at your aircraft, the non influence part of the day begins. Today with a safety check at our aircraft. That throw us back with 32min of delay when we start in Antalya to our journey to London and Manchester.
When we start our decent towards LGW London Control called as: “FeebirdAir 647 expect 15 to 20min delay , hold over TIMBA ” so our delay grow up to 52min even without landing in LGW. After disembarking our passengers in LGW , the passenger to the next destination MAN has to disembark as well to visit the border police. After 1:32 ground time we had to start to calculate our max duty time and it was 14hours during that period. After a really short ground time in Manchester we closed the doors at 21:27UTC. And now we are on our way to Antalya with a Mach speed of .80 to be in our duty time. The result 13:57h duty. With the help of our tailwind and ATC. This is Murphy low 😂😂🚀🚀
You can see a Ground Speed of 600knots , wind is from 303 degrees with 147 knots.
Holding time over TIMBA in London Gatwick



