Oh yeah… what 141 said…
Also at some of the more interesting mountain runways, you land uphill and take off downhill period dot.
Oh yeah… what 141 said…
Also at some of the more interesting mountain runways, you land uphill and take off downhill period dot.
It’s true LAX has parallel runways, therefore no crossover conflict – but in the Valley, Bob Hope Airport (formerly known as Burbank/Glendale/Pasadena Airport) has two intersecting runways. The N/S runway is mostly used for takeoffs, although planes do land on it sometimes. Most landings are on the E/W runway, always from the west. (Planes can’t land from the east, or take off in that direction, because there’s some bloody tall mountains just a couple miles away!)
Some years ago a Southwest plane landed too fast and ran off the end of the runway, crossing a busy road and missing a gas station by ten feet. Witnesses said it looked like a bad action movie.
The overall term for this type of situation is known as SIRO (pronounced “cy-rho”). It stands for (S)imultanious (I)ntersecting (R)unway (O)perations. Or at least it is here in Canada.