Originally Posted by
Squawk7700
How often would everyone be operating on 31 all day and a Citation or bigger needs to come in on 35; does that ever happen? (Keeping in mind that they are only on 31 in the first place due to the strong crosswind on 35)
It only seems to have the high number of runway incisions surely because you have to be cleared to cross every one now days? Or is it that a clearance is required because they need to be in 2-way comms with everyone? Seems like it fixes one problem but causes many more.
Exactly this situation occurred yesterday (Sunday). Operations on 31 and Citation with a suspect engine surge was asking for crosswind component on 35 in case they wanted to try it. As it happened they landed on 31R anyway. Class D does assume every runway is active or potentially active and this is why. Its only the fact YMMB has so many runways (gee aren't we lucky) that it becomes so complex.