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Originally Posted by mykalberta
Right, which is why I am surprised some prop planes used to seed clouds would be there. You would think Springbank would have much lower landing fees and be able to get to weather quicker.
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Since most of these storms are coming from the west staging out of Springbank could be a disadvantage. As any aircraft departing from there would need to climb to altitude to start seeding, whereas a plane leaving YYC can start climbing on the way to the cloud, instead of the cloud almost being on top of them already at YBW.
I'm sure they must have considered staging out of Springbank instead of YYC, but there must have been many good reasons to end up at the international.