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Old 29th May 2011, 21:43
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walking_desaster
 
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Hi poldek77,
there will certainly be huge changes when the new runway is in use and the traffic volume increases.
If everything comes into effect as planned, the landing runway will be decided -at least most of the time- with the clearance for the FMS transition to final.
This is a good thing if you consider preplanning in the cockpit, but it will reduce our flexibility and our possibilities to comply with customer requests concerning the desired runway. So as always there are both positive and negative effects.
However: These procedures are designed for a higher traffic amount than we expect in the first few months after opening the new runway. So it is possible that we might work more like today until the traffic volume increases.
Cheers, Jürgen
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