Commercial Airliners

[SerenityNigh]

I expect Dylan knows, but fun trivia for Tex and anyone else who may not: How do runways get their name/number?

 

[Dylan]

I expect Dylan knows, but fun trivia for Tex and anyone else who may not: How do runways get their name/number?

Ooo! Ooo!! I know! I know!! Pick me!!!! Pick ME!!!!!

*Grumbles for not getting picked.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Ooo! Ooo!! I know! I know!! Pick me!!!! Pick ME!!!!!

*Grumbles for not getting picked.

You can get the extra credit: tell me how DFW named their 6 runways with the same alignment.

 

[Dylan]

You can get the extra credit: tell me how DFW named their 6 runways with the same alignment.

I am totally guessing:

EL, L, CL, CR, R, ER???

 

[SerenityNigh]

I am totall guessing:

EL, L, CL, CR, R, ER???

Hah, good guess. Actually, they cheated and named three some incorrectly. I forget which, but they have 35L 35C 35R on the West East side and 36L 36C 35R on the East West side (they are separated by terminals), all the same orientation.

*Only 5 runways.

 

[Dylan]

I just looked. Yes, they certainly cheated. I would be livid if I found the runway I was landing on was 10 degrees off!!!

*I am not a pilot, so my state of mine is purely faux outrage

 

[SerenityNigh]

I just looked. Yes, they certainly cheated. I would be livid if I found the runway I was landing on was 10 degrees off!!!

*I am not a pilot, so my state of mine is purely faux outrage

They are all 356 so it's not a huge swing either way.

 

[chicoazul]

Virgins.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Virgins.

 

[Dylan]

Virgins.

The tribe I have produced disagree with your assessment.

 

[18efc78]

 

[Deleted member 28206]

Ok, so I'm a huge airliner nut. Love looking at pictures of airliners, watching Youtube videos of take offs and landings. Fascinated with air traffic control. When I was younger, I'd go down to the airport and take pictures of various planes.

Now, I'll sit there with Flightradar24 up on my computer and then tune into the airport tower of choice and sit there and listen to the planes landing and taking off while watching online.

I had a business trip last year where I could have had a straight flight from Houston to Seattle but I found out that if I took the Houston to Denver to Seattle flight, I could fly on the new 787 so I paid the extra $150 out of my own pocket just to do it.

Some of my favorite websites:

http://www.airliners.net/
http://www.liveatc.net/
https://www.flightradar24.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/SpeedbirdHD
https://www.youtube.com/user/N178UA

Anyone else got this sickness or is it just me?

A fan... of planes? This like trainspotting? fo'real? AND you own guns?

 

[SerenityNigh]

More crosswind landings and takeoffs, some of these are pretty nasty

 

[Brendan Janus]

it's enough to you off airfix models !!

 

[TheGhostOfBolasie]

Fair enough, you'd proper fill yer kecks if you were in a plane being tossed around left and right by severe winds like those seen yesterday.