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Old 4th Aug 2005, 03:51
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innuendo
 
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FrankieB,

"They kept the 24's on the south side, and the northern one became 23-05 although its magnetic heading i believe is 237 deg. Why they didn't use 24L, 24C, 24R - je ne sais pas..."

At the risk of diverting the thread, I have always wondered why airports designate parallel runways with the same number with L and R as the only difference. The numbers are to the nearest ten so why at a two parallel runway air port could they not be designated 23, 24 and 05, 06 reducing the possibility of confusion of "did he say Left or Right?". Easier in FMS selections and so on.
I realise that there are airports with multiple parallels but keeping runway designators as different as feasable seems to me a way of reducing the potential confusion factor.
I'm assuming that there must be reasons, maybe someone can enlighten me.
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