Taxiway indentifier system at large airports?
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Taxiway indentifier system at large airports?
Is there a published system or common rule applied on how taxiways letters are designated/assigned at large airports with multiple runways like JFK e.g. ?
Last edited by piperboy84; 14th Mar 2017 at 07:23.
pb84,
This might be what you are looking for:
ENGINEERING BRIEF NO. 89 TAXIWAY NOMENCLATURE CONVENTION
https://www.faa.gov/airports/enginee...edia/EB-89.pdf
I like the first instruction:
This might be what you are looking for:
ENGINEERING BRIEF NO. 89 TAXIWAY NOMENCLATURE CONVENTION
https://www.faa.gov/airports/enginee...edia/EB-89.pdf
I like the first instruction:
Keep it simple and logical.
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pb84,
This might be what you are looking for:
ENGINEERING BRIEF NO. 89 TAXIWAY NOMENCLATURE CONVENTION
https://www.faa.gov/airports/enginee...edia/EB-89.pdf
I like the first instruction:
This might be what you are looking for:
ENGINEERING BRIEF NO. 89 TAXIWAY NOMENCLATURE CONVENTION
https://www.faa.gov/airports/enginee...edia/EB-89.pdf
I like the first instruction:
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Or if you're in the UK, CAP 168, chapter 7 refers (nice pretty pictures). As it's fully ICAO compliant, it should be good all around the world, even the US. Last time I was there, major airports at least seem to be compliant.
The ICAO reference is Annex 14.
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The ICAO reference is Annex 14.
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Yeah even O'Hare had the change from its unique system of naming the taxiways eg 'the Outer Scenic' and the 'Penalty Box'.
We had named taxiways at Farnborough too and the ICAO regs changed just as we were becoming a civil airfield so we 'lost' taxiways like 'Vampire Way' - now a boring 'Taxiway Echo' and 'the Arrestor' now a boring 'Taxiway Charlie' whilst 'Mosquito Way' became part of taxiway Alpha.
We had named taxiways at Farnborough too and the ICAO regs changed just as we were becoming a civil airfield so we 'lost' taxiways like 'Vampire Way' - now a boring 'Taxiway Echo' and 'the Arrestor' now a boring 'Taxiway Charlie' whilst 'Mosquito Way' became part of taxiway Alpha.
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Gatwick used to have a good system - sequential even numbers for N/S and odd for E/W (or it may have been the other way round) then they changed it to alphabetical because of standardisation, still a logic to it butnot quite so easy.
It also helps to have the airfield chart - at my local general aviation airfield (which has simple layout) it never ceases to amaze me that visiting aircraft seem clueless about where to taxi!
