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Old 13th June 2006 | 02:23
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Mumbai (Bombay)

The photo in the link for Google is of Mumbai Airport's runway 27. Since the taxiway does not go to the full length, back track is required (for most). The Airport diagram shows that construction of a new lengthened taxiway to the full length point is planned. However, this has been in the planning stages for many, many years. The floods last year probably put a lot of upgrades on hold.
There is a yellow line that comes off the runway centerline (the runway centerline is made up of arrows in this case) and goes both left and right. It is prefered by most at my company to jink to the right and make a left turn so that the Captain can monitor the progress of the turn. However, I have been told by a few F/Os that some jink left then turn right. The taxiway line goes all the way until you are aligned with the runway direction. It seems to work well.
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