Originally Posted by
Rivet Joint
……..it wasn’t long ago that everyone thought Embraer 190 sized aircraft couldn’t be parked on the stands adjacent to the runway. Guess what, the airport made some changes and now a whole bunch of them are parked on those stands over the weekend without any affect on the runway. Things change.
It wasn’t the airport that made the changes it was ICAO who reduced the runway strip width for a Code 3/4 runway from 150 metres to 140 metres. The outer edge of the strip is where the 1:7 transitional surface starts (often referred to as the side-slope), which should be obstacle free.
The problem was that the tail fin penetrated the 1:7 slope. It may still do so to a minor extent, if so the CAA appears to have accepted this as a permitted (temporary) obstacle.