Kiah, Khou

[OneBadLT123]

Kiah Khou

Any idea when the airports are going to close? And have they started ferrying out the aircraft from the area? I need to get home ASAP and flight into either airport would be the best option. Otherwise I would probally have to go into KSAT or KAUS

 

[UM#1]

Flight service would know. Both still open last I heard.

 

[Bad-Andy]

Continental/ExpressJet are planning to suspend operations after 12:00 noon on Friday at IAH. It's a madhouse there right now...

 

[Propsfullfwd]

9/22 1725CDT Attention ALL Crewmembers: Houston is currently not scheduling any inbound flights.

from the company site... I guess it is for all CAL and XJT flts... good luck
Props

 

[Wankel7]

Any idea when the airports are going to close? And have they started ferrying out the aircraft from the area? I need to get home ASAP and flight into either airport would be the best option. Otherwise I would probally have to go into KSAT or KAUS

When I read your subject i was like...wtf is that some sort of island language...i didnt notice it was airport codes at first

 

[OneBadLT123]

Yeah, im going on the first flight tomorrow morning to San Antonio, my father is going to meet me there, and we're going to drive down what of I-10 we can then take the state highways back to the houston area.

I figured tomorrow all flights were going to be suspended.

Oh and sorry about the title, for some reason it didnt allow the cap latters.

 

[PolarTwins55]

When I read your subject i was like...wtf is that some sort of island language...i didnt notice it was airport codes at first

me too




filller

 

[flyinlow67]

Yup, I thought he was asking about Khartoum or something.

 

[Gutenberg]

TAF? since when are they right? You'd be just as well off reading the back page of USA Today in all its colorful glory.

Disclaimer: not that I could do better.

 

[pilotmiketx]

If you look at the satellite image, Rita took a right turn and is now headed ENE.
It looks like MSY will be the winner again...

click here: Hurricane Rita

Also if you check the TAF's, it looks like HOU and IAH are going to get some winds but no bitch slap from Rita.

click here: TAF

For what it's worth...
The TAFs don't mean sh*t when a hurricane is coming. We're MSY based and watched Katrina do it's thing (from a distance after we evac'ed all our ppl.) The TAF barely showed any wind and VFR wx right up through landfall. I watched the METARS report right up to 80KTS and then for some reason there were none for a few days.

Also, at MSY, at noon the day before landfall, the airport manager and tenants had a meeting and decided the airport would close at 70KT sustained winds. I know the "FBO" at RKP was closed this morning and I'm sure all the small coastal airports are the same.

I was supposed to pick a friend up from DWH in my plane today, but he couldn't get to the airport (after he spent 10hours in traffic and went 5 miles yesterday.) Apparently as soon as one gets remotely close to a highway, you are detoured onto the highway and headed inland so I wouldn't plan on going into houston by car. The roads are one-way up to 120miles out.