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Old 16th Mar 2014, 18:20
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Kikwon. A system employed at many airports is to land traffic in order of their wake turbulence categories rather than the usual first come, first served procedures. For example, if many aircraft are holding, 4 heavies followed by 4 medium aircraft is better than heavy-medium-heavy-medium, etc. At some places computers can assist the controllers in deciding the best landing order but even then controllers can sometime beat the computer.
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