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To: Lonely Bull

Perhaps the taxiway “identified” as a runway. Have you not taken the taxiway’s feelings into account?


3 posted on 07/11/2017 9:57:30 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps
Perhaps the taxiway “identified” as a runway. Have you not taken the taxiway’s feelings into account?
A test pilot I knew (RIP, cancer) told of an occasion when he was ferrying some corporate execs from one plant to another in very windy conditions.

And as he was approaching the destination he was considering how tricky the landing and shutdown of his Cessna was going to be in such a high crosswind. At that point the destination tower called him, and asked if he wanted to land on runway 32 (or whatever it actually was, I dunno). He replied, “I sure would!” (the number of a runway, for those who don’t know any more about it than I did when he told me the story, is the heading, expressed in tens of degrees, an aircraft would approach it for a landing) and then asked himself what they were talking about.

Then he realized that there was a short section of taxiway which had that heading - and since he was flying a light plane with a low landing speed into the teeth of a high headwind, he would have no difficulty landing there and being able to deplane his passengers.

So there is at least one case of a taxiway identifying as a runway.


37 posted on 07/11/2017 10:52:54 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (A press can be “associated,” or a press can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: Army Air Corps

“Perhaps the taxiway “identified” as a runway.”

The taxiway seems pretty straight to me. Apparently, it was just an innocent bystander.


43 posted on 07/11/2017 11:13:36 AM PDT by moovova
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