--- Mark Greenwood <mgreenwood@telus.net> wrote: > And I think DFW's east west runways operate on a > similar principle. > Anything coming from the west lands on the western > runways and vice versa. > > Mark > > Matthew Montano wrote: > > > All airports with multiple simultaneous active > runways do the same > > thing. > > > > ATL's parallel runways make it easy to picture. > Anything to/from the > > north'ish uses the northern pair and visa-versa > for the south. The paths > > never cross. > > > > ORD's plan is decidedly more complex. I've done a > ORD-YVR departing off > > of 4L with a heading of 090 due to winds. We > reached 15,000 ft about 10 > > minutes still going straight east. Overhead on > channel 9 was even the > > pilot reminding ATC that we were heading to > *Vancouver*. > > > > YYZ's archaic runway layout will make it feel like > you are driving half > > way to your destination if you are flying AC and > departures are to the > > east-north-east. > > > > Amazingly these taxi-times based on active runway > selections are built > > into the scheduled times that you'll find on a > Flight Status website. > > > > Matthew > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: The Airline List > [mailto:AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of > > Mark Greenwood > > Sent: January 3, 2002 10:00 PM > > To: AIRLINE@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU > > Subject: Re: Lax south runways can they handle a > 747? > > > > I believe the choice of runway for departure and > arrival is determined > > by the origin/destination of the aircraft. Every > time I have flown to > > the South Pacific ex LAX we have always departed > from and arrived back > > on the south runways. Flight to Asia and Europe > have always arrived and > > departed on the north runways. > > > > Mark > > > > W Wilson wrote: > > > > > Absolutely....7R/25L is actually longer than the > other parallel on the > > > > > southside at 11,096 feet. (the inner south > runway 7L/25R is 12,091 > > > feet). Your concern is notable however. It's > more based on procedure > > > at airports with two sets of parallels on each > side of the airport. > > > Normal ops include allowing aircraft to depart > on the inner parallels > > > while landing (usually) on the outer parallels > allowing greater > > > separation on approach. So for whatever > reason..."they" decided to > > > depart from 25L. It could also be to expedite > the departure of > > > traffic behing the KAL 747, so they moved it on > over to the other side > > > > > to make room, amongst a couple more operational > considerations. > > > > > [snip] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/