Originally Posted by
Capn Bloggs
Good question, Airports aren't designed by pilots, unfortunately. Full-length parallel taxiways are one of the greatest safety enhancements a busy airport could have IMO, Broome, Newman, Ballina (based on reading) being cases in point.
Over the years since you and I were often on the same UHF frequency Bloggsy, I've grown tired of trying to convince airport designers worldwide to listen to operational folk before the concrete pours begin and batching plants are erected.
Sunny Coast is a classic example - I still have the emails and briefing docs on file.
The other issue is that, when the bleeding obvious becomes an operational and safety necessity, there is operational disruption while the "fix" is effected. Putting it there in the first place would have been cheaper and completed while there were not operations to disrupt. .
All controllers and most pilots can point to a taxiway that is useless and a place where there should be a taxiway at airports they frequent.
Gne.