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Maybe. But maybe another 1000m of dirt would have been enough to slow them before the treeline. The area south of the runway is mostly an easement for the ILS
by loeg 2y ago
Maybe. But maybe another 1000m of dirt would have been enough to slow them before the treeline. The area south of the runway is mostly an easement for the ILS approach equipment, then a parking lot and finally some trees.
It's also definitely the case that the cement-reinforced dirt mound is not best practice for a locator array.
- TylerE 2y agoYes, but in basically every single circumstance if you have room for 1000m of dirt, you have room for another 1000m of runway, which is even safer.
- bombcar 2y agoThis is the reality - most airports run their runways “to the fence” for some variation of “to the fence”. If they could reasonably have a thousand extra feet of runway they’ll add that, as it supports more operations and doesn’t really hurt. Some of them even move around the recommended touchdown point depending on other factors, if the runway is extra long.