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Old 5th Feb 2006, 15:51
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High Speed Turn Offs

I've had a couple of instances recently of potential confliction between aircraft exiting at a high speed turn off , from the runway, having just landed, and aircraft taxi-ing out for departure in the opposite direction along the parallel taxi-way. At LGW in particular, departures taxi-ing out for 08R via R and 26R can be head on to high speed exiting traffic and quite close. Instructions such as 'can you expedite round the corner' are used. I would have thought that exiting at 45 knots would be quite reasonable and then switching to ground when clear of the runway. If we have to be prepared to remain clear of the parallel taxiway, this would require heavy braking on the turn-off. Normally aircraft would expect to vacate at the exit best suiting their deceleration and this is not always predictable.
Cancun is another example- a/c using the full length of runway 12 to land and taxi-ing in back along A can interfere with following a/c exiting at the high-speed. Instructions such as ' not there, exit at B' are used at the last minute.
Is there not a more formal ATC procedure or should we always be prepared to exit at high speed, clear the runway expeditiously, and then stop clear of the parallel. Not always a lot of room.
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