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There's a bunch of reasons but it's primarily the popularity of the airport combined with the runway layout and the noise abatement procedures all made worse by
by throwup238 3y ago
There's a bunch of reasons but it's primarily the popularity of the airport combined with the runway layout and the noise abatement procedures all made worse by the Bay's weather.
SFO has two pairs of parallel runways and the pairs are very close together, with the runways in the 28L/28R pair only 750 feet apart. That's really close for an A350 with a giant 200ft wingspan and the noise abatement prevents the use of a standard step down approach where the pilots have much better visibility.
- blindriver 3y agoThere is little to no actual noise abatement at sfo for residents living around there, especially during inclement weather.
- throwup238 3y agohttps://www.flysfo.com/about/community-noise/noise-office/making-sfo-quieter/noise-abatement-procedures https://www.flysfo.com/about/community-noise/noise-office/ma... But yeah it all goes out the window in poor weather.
- blt 3y agoFor comparison, at LAX the typical parallel landing runways 24R and 25L are around a mile (~5000 feet) apart.