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Old 6th Feb 2008, 06:00
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Intersecting runway vs parallel runway

Newer airports seldom (or none) built intersecting runways which crisscross each other. AFAIK, if 1 is active, the other one has to be deactivated for t/o and landing. So it's just as bad as having only 1 active runway.

Crosswind limitation on aircraft types nowadays far exceeding what we have in the 1970's. That's one of the reason for them to build intersecting runways. But it's fast become obsolete for an airport to have 2 runways intersect with each other.

From the guys in the tower, what do you think?
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