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Interesting, still remaining in a max 3 characters coding, wouldn't it make sense to renumber/redenominate runways using (say) alpha1-alpha2-alpha3? Where: al
by jaclaz 7y ago
Interesting, still remaining in a max 3 characters coding, wouldn't it make sense to renumber/redenominate runways using (say) alpha1-alpha2-alpha3?
Where:
alpha1 is a letter from A to J (10 letters/values 0-9)
alpha2 is a letter excluded R from P to Z (10 letters/values 0-9)
alpha3 is either L or R
So, runway 10L would be BPL and 01L would be AQL.
It still remains the possible error between L and R, though.
I don't know the reason why runways are called "Left" or "Right", I mean, even without the typo doesn't having two runways # 10 possibly create some confusion?
More generally "similar" codes should IMHO be avoided, most probably there are reasons (that I don't know about) why a number of airports have their taxiways/runways named/numbered as they are (possibly ingenerating confusion).
It seems like the crash at Linate Airport:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linate_Airport_disaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linate_Airport_disaster
ultimately was caused by the poor visibility and the confusion between the R5 and R6 (maybe if they were called - still say - L5 and R6 or 22 and 87 the Cessna pilots wouldn't have made their error)
- randrews 7y agoThe numbers have a meaning aside from telling the runways apart: they're the azimuth of the runway divided by 10 degrees. So runway 10 has you taking off at a heading of 100 degrees, or a little south of east. This matters because you hear the runway numbers over the radio and can picture in your head where the other planes are and where you need to be to line up to land.