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Old 18th Oct 2011, 06:28
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chimbu warrior
 
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Perhaps some of the "blame" should be attributed to the designers of the current Brisbane airport.

Remember that 14/32 was only an afterthought, due largely to the representations of the AFAP, who referred to years of historical data pointing out that the prevailing wind for much of the year was/is a south-easterly. As a result, 14/32 was an "add-on", and procedures had to be cobbled together to handle the simultaneous use of both runways.

I suspect that the positioning of the Gateway bridge and political sensitivity on the Redcliffe peninsula were also factors in the selection of the main runway alignment. A main runway of 12/30 alignment would have made much more sense.

Consequently controllers are left to deal with mistakes of the past, and try and make the system work.

The result of that is CROPS.

Had the original parallel runways been built, and in the correct direction, none of this would be occurring now.
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