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Old 12th March 2004 | 00:41
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Eva San
 
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From: N 43° 39' 54'' E 7° 12' 53''
Landing behind a larger aircraft- when parallel runway is closer than2,500 feet. Consider possible drift to your runway. Stay at or above the larger aircraft's final approach flight path- note its touchdown point
My best option is to take the small aircraft to another runway to avoid the wake turbelence delay, my second option is to take the small aircraft to full length.
Do you have the same 2500 feet thing for two departing a/c ?
In my country, if departing from a runway less then 2500 feet away behind a heavier traffic 2 minutes if same "intersection" and 3 min if not.

The other thing I still don't understand is the same as Keygrip. How can you expect a light aircraft to outclimb the preceding if the earlier turn is not available ?

As to requesting a minute for the wake turbelence to dissapate, that isn't a problem unless you are at a busy airport where they are constantly having to shoot gaps between arrivals. Again the key is to let the controller know soon enough that you want a slight delay. If you are in a line behind large aircraft waiting to depart, you should know right off whether you want a slight delay, so tell the ground controller, or the local controller as soon as possible. I would much rather have you pull off to the side so someone else can depart than to have you hold up the departure stream.
Yeah, and what about the traffic overtaking the light one ? If it's heavier traffic, which seems likely in a busy airport, the problem remains the same and one way or another you're gonna have to wait those two minutes sooner or later. I know that time is money, but what is two minutes ?
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