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To: rawhide

Why do airports with short runways like Midway land airplanes with the wind? Wouldn't it make sense to land against the wind to have a slower SOG?


11 posted on 12/15/2005 7:14:30 PM PST by Doohickey (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
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To: Doohickey

It was reported that to switch the runway to land with a headwind would have required shutting down a runway in use at O'Hare to the North.

Midway, Dallas Love, Houston Hobby, Washington National; should all have been shutdown when the new airports were built!


14 posted on 12/15/2005 7:20:18 PM PST by AmericanDave (Woe is the Income Tax...... and more Cowbell...)
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