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Old 30th Dec 2013, 03:45
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OverRun
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We need to clarify the status of TWY Mike. Slowjet posted:
It isn't a taxi-way but a taxi-lane
For it to be a taxilane, it has to be located on an apron which it isn't. Even if it was, and it is clearly not, then it would still be an apron taxiway rather than a taxilane. ICAO Annex 14, Doc 9157, Part 2 Taxiways, Aprons and Holding Bays refers, especially section 1.1.8 and Figure 1-1.

It is a taxiway, TWY Mike, and is shown as such on the FAOR AERODROME GROUND MOVEMENT CHART AD-02 12 DEC 2013. From this chart, an extract shows it coming off TWY Bravo.



The note at the lower left hand side unfortunately indicates by default that the width of TWY Mike is 30.5 m. Yet Google Earth shows it to be about 19m. The chart also shows shoulders, but these were not visible on the Google Earth photo.

The said building is 24.5m approximately from the centreline of TWY Mike. Difficult for the 747-400 to get past with its wingspan of 64.9m (32.45m from centreline to wing tip). That building location would control and limit the taxiway strip width and that in turn would mean that TWY Mike is an ICAO Annex 14 Code B taxiway, and is limited to Metroliners and such-like. It is too narrow for even the smallest of the airline jets, which are Code C.

I wonder how the Code C jets shown in the earlier photos here got to Apron Mike.
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