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Old 4th Jan 2023, 20:06
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Squawk7700
 
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Originally Posted by Weheka
Don't know if this has already been mentioned but you would have to ask why they were not doing a race track pattern of departing and incoming aircraft, both going in the same direction, presumably into wind? Instead of taking off and landing towards each other?
It was suggested to me by someone that has landed there before that the pattern may be set up that way so as to avoid flights over one of the hotels in close proximity to the landing area.

There are multiple hotels / resorts in the area, of which one or more are of the high-end type and one of those resorts is part of the theme park right next door.
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