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Cocoa Crispies posted:Kinda like the Polderbaan at Amsterdam Schiphol, probably a mile away from anything else: "And now that we've landed, a short drive through the country..."
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Madrid Barajas is also pretty poo poo for that. Terminal 4 and 4S are at the complete other end of the airport from 1, 2 and 3, to the point there's actually a metro stop between them, so while you don't have runways that gently caress off into the middle of nowhere, they may as well if you're scheduled to depart or arrive at the wrong terminal.
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May 17, 2017 17:22
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It's not as bad as it looks... On the taxiways to it you are allowed to taxi at up to 50 knots.
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May 17, 2017 17:22
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Inacio posted:Where there's a will I considered that option, but those cliffs looked so steep it might make the pillars unpractically tall. And I'm not sure if that would help with the windshear anyway. From some earlier post I got the impression that a plane needs to be some distance inland from the cliff edge before it can land, so it doesn't matter how much the runway has been extended in that direction. The extension would only help at the stopping end of runway. And stopping a plane on a bridge over a cliff and then trying to turn it around doesn't sound like something I'd want to do as a pilot. But I must admit it would make an amazing video when one of those 737s missjudged the turn and tumbled down the cliff.
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May 17, 2017 17:35
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Tsuru posted:It's not as bad as it looks... On the taxiways to it you are allowed to taxi at up to 50 knots. Still a 20 minute taxi from Polderbaan to the terminal. And for some reason we land on that every time I have a tight connection at AMS.
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May 17, 2017 18:06
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Lambert STL also has a runway to nowhere that nobody uses, 11/29. Turns out taxiing that much costs real money, who knew? but I'm really impressed with building one on top of a highway. Way to go, Atlanta. I think. STL is kind of a depressing airport since it used to be a hub when TWA existed and McDonnell-Douglas hadn't been bought out by Boeing and used to be pretty busy. Now it's like a third-tier sleepy regional but with the facilities to handle so much more traffic. Everything just seems out of scale. Psion fucked around with this message at 18:37 on May 17, 2017 |
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May 17, 2017 18:34
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Psion posted:but I'm really impressed with building one on top of a highway. Way to go, Atlanta. I think. Now here's hoping they didn't store a bunch of plastic under it.
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May 17, 2017 18:38
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Now I'm thinking about the fact that Concorde used 2% of its fuel load taxiing to takeoff because it's engines were optimised for high altitude, it'd run out of gas taking off from that schipol runway in the middle of nowhere
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May 17, 2017 20:37
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Psion posted:Lambert STL also has a runway to nowhere that nobody uses, 11/29. It looks like you'd take off from 11 and land on 29. If that were the case the taxi isn't much longer than taking off from 6
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May 17, 2017 21:09
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um excuse me posted:It looks like you'd take off from 11 and land on 29. If that were the case the taxi isn't much longer than taking off from 6 Only if you're at the main terminal. It seems like Southwest is like 80% of the airline traffic in/out these days(at least on the eastern half where I work) and I can't picture them wanting anything to do with that runway.
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May 17, 2017 22:00
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Psion posted:Lambert STL also has a runway to nowhere that nobody uses, 11/29. Turns out taxiing that much costs real money, who knew? but I'm really impressed with building one on top of a highway. Way to go, Atlanta. I think. Didn't they stopped using that runway because of an order of court? They've build that runway w/o asking the resident impacted by that decision?
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May 17, 2017 22:02
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Jonathan Demers posted:Didn't they stopped using that runway because of an order of court? They've build that runway w/o asking the resident impacted by that decision? I don't know about that, but they did eminent domain the poo poo out of the neighborhood that used to be there to expand it right before American pulled out.
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fknlo posted:I don't know about that, but they did eminent domain the poo poo out of the neighborhood that used to be there to expand it right before American pulled out. It is disappointingly un-apocalyptic, riding around the abandoned street-grid Kind of like the worlds most boring golf course.
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If you think runways over highways, runways built over oceans/bays, or insanely long taxis are exciting you should really get out more
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Does Memphis have one over a highway? The parallel taxiway for 35/36R and Center are on overpasses. May be terminal traffic idk. What's good in Boston Logan? Flying Aer Lingus tomorrow to CDG, connecting through Dublin.
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Captain Postal posted:If you think runways over highways, runways built over oceans/bays, or insanely long taxis are exciting you should really get out more While it might be true that the A380 is a 'dopey' looking airplane, that wing on it is a thing of beauty.
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This is what O'Hare has. https://www.google.com/maps/@41.979235,-87.8957121,1152m/data=!3m1!1e3
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May 18, 2017 04:12
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Looking at Memphis, the Fedex area seems to be really poorly placed if they're landing south. UPS has their poo poo setup right in between the runways. I wonder how much that effects the noticeably quicker turnaround that UPS has over Fedex?
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BIG HEADLINE posted:While it might be true that the A380 is a 'dopey' looking airplane, that wing on it is a thing of beauty. Absolutely, but it looks about 3 sizes too big in that profile
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May 18, 2017 09:30
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fknlo posted:Looking at Memphis, the Fedex area seems to be really poorly placed if they're landing south. UPS has their poo poo setup right in between the runways. I wonder how much that effects the noticeably quicker turnaround that UPS has over Fedex? I think anything related to moving items between trucks at a local shipping node will outweigh an extra few minutes a item spends on an extremely expensive airplane.
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May 18, 2017 12:56
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Saukkis posted:I considered that option, but those cliffs looked so steep it might make the pillars unpractically tall. Lufthansa, BA and Virgin pilots having to get carrier quals before being authorized to land there. 
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May 18, 2017 13:16
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KFLL is in on the overpass game, too. That's US1 passing underneath, for anyone on the east coast of the country. Bonus points for putting the bridge directly under the touchdown zone for 28L. 
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May 18, 2017 13:34
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Discord chat I'm in started arguing about how airships would be the solution for everything cargo transportation and are great and magical
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May 18, 2017 14:31
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The one airport where I'm surprised there isn't an overpass is Gibraltar.
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Inacio posted:Discord chat I'm in started arguing about how airships would be the solution for everything cargo transportation and are great and magical  I'm having an impact on the world
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Nebakenezzer posted:
I have an RP setting you might want to hear about once I get it into a more coherent form.
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As long as there isn't a runway overpassing another runway, the "insanity" part of the thread title isn't met.
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Cat Mattress posted:As long as there isn't a runway overpassing another runway, the "insanity" part of the thread title isn't met.  You asked?
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The King of the Netherlands apparently flies for KLM's "Cityhopper" service to clear his mind. He flies Fokker 70s and is training on 737s because the Fokkers are being retired. http://news.sky.com/story/dutch-king-reveals-double-life-as-an-airline-pilot-for-klm-10881947
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May 18, 2017 17:31
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It is good to have hobbies when you don't work, keeps you occupied.
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fknlo posted:Looking at Memphis, the Fedex area seems to be really poorly placed if they're landing south. UPS has their poo poo setup right in between the runways. I wonder how much that effects the noticeably quicker turnaround that UPS has over Fedex? I've been there a few times and the landing is predominately to the north but they'll give 9/27 sometimes if you ask for it. The full length taxi isn't that bad considering they taxi around at close to v1. That's an exaggeration but they definitely don't waste their time.
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wolrah posted:The King of the Netherlands apparently flies for KLM's "Cityhopper" service to clear his mind. He flies Fokker 70s and is training on 737s because the Fokkers are being retired. His dad would have been flying fighters in the war, this one's an entitled soft millenial if you ask me
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fknlo posted:Looking at Memphis, the Fedex area seems to be really poorly placed if they're landing south. UPS has their poo poo setup right in between the runways. I wonder how much that effects the noticeably quicker turnaround that UPS has over Fedex? An extra 10 minutes of taxi time doesn't really impact the turnaround when the majority of the time is sorting packages brought in by ~150 aircraft and most aircraft are scheduled to be on the ground for 3-4 hours anyways.
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Great plane, excellent youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv7z499NBVs
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Enzenx posted:An extra 10 minutes of taxi time doesn't really impact the turnaround when the majority of the time is sorting packages brought in by ~150 aircraft and most aircraft are scheduled to be on the ground for 3-4 hours anyways. If I remember correctly, it's in Memphis that the FAA is studying reduced wake turbulence seperation between departure base on the laminar wing profile instead of only weight... That sure help if you can depart 3 heavies instead of 2 every 4 minutes...
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Psion posted:in 1942 I played with a guy who was good enough to roll 90 degrees and get you with the wingtip. loving mefafthiel, i still have "nightmares" about getting bombed out of an AA gun because he would come down from the ceiling directly over the gun in the 1 degree of space the gun couldn't hit.
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Whoops -- wrong thread
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Jealous Cow posted:https://twitter.com/AFP/status/865505753615835137 Because Trump said so ...
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Mortabis posted:The one airport where I'm surprised there isn't an overpass is Gibraltar. But then I wouldn't have been able to cross driving over that runway off my bucket list. It's kinda neat to watch them close it off and prepare for a departure.
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jkr266s posted:loving mefafthiel, i still have "nightmares" about getting bombed out of an AA gun because he would come down from the ceiling directly over the gun in the 1 degree of space the gun couldn't hit. ahaha oh yeah, the AA guns turned into traps instead of useful. i'm glad you remembered his name. that guy was an insane plane wizard. also, hi
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