Originally Posted by
llondel
Assuming the Turkish B777 is correctly positioned, which is not unreasonable given the general operations around it, was the B787 following the wrong line? There appears to be three different lines running along the ramp past gate 218 and I'm guessing they should have been on the middle one but weren't. This is based entirely on looking at the Google Maps satellite view and seeing the size of the aircraft at the gate and mapping wingspans onto the taxi lines.
Why are there three lines there, does anyone know? Is it just that it grew from two and they added a third down the middle to accommodate larger wingspans passing longer aircraft that stuck out more?
Have only been there once about two years ago. Checked my own personal airport notes which says that the blue and orange taxiway liones are for narrowbody only. Can't seem to find where I got that infor from unless it was just obvious at the time. If you are in an airplane in relatively tight quarters, best to be in the middle is my theory(unless there is a particular reason not to be and it is obviously safe to not be).