David R <damiross2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>SNA has 2 runways:
>1L/19R is 5701 feet long
>1R/19L is 2887 feet long
>
>While the larger aircraft obviously can't use 1R/19L, it does take some
>pressure off of 1L/19R by separting smaller general aviation aircraft from the
>longer ru nway.
19L is so close to 19R that both approach and departure flight paths are
angled at 15 degrees off the centre line to increase the distance from the main
runway. In addition, you have to keep the approach fairly high in order to stay
above the jet blast from airliners waiting between the runways for departure on
19R. Interesting runway...
All these precautions did not prevent an early-solo student to make a
fatal somersoult in a Cessna 150 due to wake turbulence a couple of years ago.
The amount of traffic that they manage to move at SNA is amazing. In good
years it is close to Schiphol's traffic on five runways.
Kees de Lezenne Coulander
C.M. de Lezenne Coulander
Aircraft Development and Systems Engineering B.V.
Hoofddorp, the Netherlands