Originally Posted by
jimjim1
Maybe you need some better eyes?
Well somebody does.
My eyes using google earth estimate that the distance between the Heathrow runways is -
1497 yards edge to edge
1546 yards centre line to centre line
That's perfectly true, but the OP was talking about TXL (Berlin-Tegel). Its runways are around 205m apart, measured centreline-to-centreline (which is the convention).