Hi folks,
I was wondering if someone could explain the whole process of a runway change from atc's perspective in big airports with lots of incoming traffic. For example, let's say the wind changed 180° and tower changes from rwy.18 to rwy.36, my questions are:
-What happens to the ones already flying the STAR for the old rwy, do they get vectors for the new one? or still land on the old one although with some tail wind?
-From which point on the map does atc say which airplane still lands on the old and the rest on the new one?
-How do they avoid conflicts between possible go arounds from the old rwy and approaches into the new one?
-How do they deal with departures?
-And last, is there some kind of established criteria or checklist for the controllers to say "ok, now we're switching rwys"?
As you can tell I have little clue of what proceeds in this case, but i'm sure it has to be a big deal for atc!
Thanks in advance for the help
