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Old 18th Jan 2014, 13:27
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Bloggs, this may help you understand the point you seem to be missing;

http://www.skybrary.aero/bookshelf/books/812.pdf

Figue 3 explains what Ultrinque is trying to get across to you.
What??

B is wider than 45m and shorter than 11,500ft?? And C is narrower than 45m but longer than 11,500ft?? No wonder they "don't look like a normal runway"!

I'll stay with my previous position. In my experience unless you specifically told yourself (or someone said "look at that"), you wouldn't notice the aspect difference on the sort of 30m/45m runways we're talking about here.

Looking forward to the Google Earth link to that 30m wide 15,000ft runway...

Lighting? fair enough, VASI? (or lack thereof) fair enough, runway aspect? I don't buy it.
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