Cub Driver wrote:

My airport is 02/20, and so is the one 52 NM away that I often fly to.
I say Zero Two, and so do most other people. I've occasionally heard
it called "Two". I think Zero Two is safer -- BUT:

I'm also based at an airport with a 02/20 runway. I always say "zero
two". To me, it sounds weird to just say "two".


I don't understand why anyone would designate an airport that way.
Chances are it's fairly close to 1/19 or 3/21. What difference could
it possibly make at a non=towered field to avoid this potentially
dangerous combination?

One thing would be the often used practice of resetting your DG when you
pull onto the runway. Presently, the runway heading is the magnetic
heading rounded to the NEAREST 10th. If the rounded the other way, some
people's DG would be off by more than 5 degrees. In practice, that's
probably not a big deal, but that the only thing I could think of.

--- Jay


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