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Old 27th Feb 2013, 17:15
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Jwscud
 
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Tower Operations on intersecting runways

I read this report on Avherald about a loss of separation on crossing runways with departing traffic on one, and traffic executing a go-around on the other. The minimum separation mentioned (100ft vertical, .3nm horizontal) is fairly high pucker-factor!

How are things like this normally co-ordinated amongst controllers? In this case it would appear that there was a different Tower controller handling each runway, and departures and arrivals using separate runways in an unusual (for europe) configuration.

I assume you would always have a "what-if" plan in case we go around for any reason?
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