Originally Posted by
Lost in Saigon
Can you ask your friend if the tower is even open at 6am? Is it a 24hr tower?
It is a 24 hour manned control tower.
Does either rwy have distance marker boards?
As far as I know runway 26 does not, as I was mostly flying 727s into LEX I never used runway 26. I did taxi on it, but I don't remember any distance markers. As a general rule in the United States only runways that would have a lot of military operations have distance markers. I don't believe that there are any hard rules on distance markers. However, in this case I don't know if distance markers would have made any difference. All the other rules on being on the correct runway were ignored.
Why is what we need to find out.