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I can’t speak to international ops because I’m just not sure. In the US though, we have runway status lights. At all the runway intersections there are lights e
by bronco21016 3y ago
I can’t speak to international ops because I’m just not sure. In the US though, we have runway status lights. At all the runway intersections there are lights embedded in the runway that will tell you if the runway is safe or not. A radar based system is constantly monitoring the runway and will light it up red if there is a potential for collision. The system works independent of any input from ATC. I think it’s actually quite effective.
Unfortunately it’s expensive and so only runways at the busiest airports have it so far.
- epolanski 3y agoAnd yet in US it's also standard practice to have airplanes takeoff on the same runway at the same time if the preceding airplane is small enough to not create vortices. Note how no one did anything wrong really in this case: https://simpleflying.com/march-2020-air-canada-incident/ https://simpleflying.com/march-2020-air-canada-incident/
- konschubert 3y agoYou can build a system that accounts for this.
- snypher 3y ago>runway incursion monitoring and alert system had failed to detect the danger as it had detected that both aircraft were in the air despite still being on the ground.
- konschubert 3y agoYea, seems like the system isn’t very good since it’s not actually connected to the vehicles.
- koyote 3y agoNot all Airports do, this incident at JFK happened not long ago and could have been a massive disaster: https://onemileatatime.com/news/american-777-delta-737-nearly-collide-jfk-runway/ https://onemileatatime.com/news/american-777-delta-737-nearl...
- bronco21016 3y agoYea, as I mentioned it’s rather unfortunate that not all airports have it yet. I’d love to see it installed everywhere. Including non-controlled airports.