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Old 7th Feb 2004, 16:41
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arcniz
 
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Few Cloudy's point is well taken - about 28 being used mostly as a relief approach during periodic high westerly winds at ZRH.

I can remember one occasion - quite a while back - when a DC-3 landed on 28 in such stiff winds that it could not lower the tailwheel into ground contact. It tarried on the runway, brakes on and tail still flying (with some stabilizing power) until a crew of wing-walkers (or tail sitters) could be gathered to give them a margin of safety for taxiing off the point of the gale.

In those days, short and medium-haul non-heavy jets used 28 extensively during daytime operations, taking advantage of the short taxi to the terminal. But the relatively shorter length of 28 and the close proximity of old Kloten village to the threshold was a point of sensitivity which moved usage more toward the north-south runways as volume grew.
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