Civilian airfields are built to maximise revenue, hence the huge shopping mall with attached aircraft-parking facilities, along with a consideration for safe operations; i.e. it doesn't do to frighten the punters, or they'll go elsewhere for their cheap booze and crap tan.
Military airfields are built down to a 'cost', usually at tax-payers expense, and therefore less is available to be spent on concrete and Tarmac.
However, I should like to point-out that I always preferred to stop, and subsequently land, as opposed to land, and then try to stop.
Last edited by diginagain; 26th Sep 2012 at 21:46.