Edinburgh Airport Snow

Winter Operations at Edinburgh Airport - a Cold Calling

Snow Clearing Equipment in Action

Introduction to Ops - Edinburgh Airport

Winter Ops, snatching what I could when I could so apologies for quality, it aint no easy feet taking photos in the dark, especially hand held and continually on the move. Big equipment at work clearing the snow from the Airport. What snow does fall usually doesn’t stay on the ground for long. But when big snowstorms do hit, they strike hard and are relentless. That was the situation with this white-out over east Scotland 2010 that fell. Contamination-removal plan kicks into gear, a fleet of snow-removal machines face the daunting challenge to successfully deal with winter operations and snow removal. A team of full-time and on-call volunteer staff take the brunt head on. To clean one of these runways and its associated taxiway and manoeuvring areas is no easy feet, specialised equipment each with a unique function, such as ploughing, spreading, snow blowing and chemical spraying with new multifunction machines that compliment exciting recognised kit to meet the task face to face. The FRB (Forth Road Bridge) a close neighbour of the airport was closed for the first time ever, unprecedented times and extraordinary circumstances brought contingency plans to the forefront to reopen key services in Scotland.

It wasn’t just the Airport; snow was falling all around, a real Scottish winter scene throughout Scotland. The snowstorm was relentless, it just kept coming and I can’t remember when the last chilly weather was as bad as this. It wasn’t just a flurry, the storm blizzard conditions lasted a duration, it just kept snowing until it was a whiteout. I love a snowfall but this was far too extreme, with icicles on the icicles everything was frozen solid.