It is cheaper to only pave and maintain a 75 foot wide
surface, often the original runways in this country were
laid down during WWII as military training bases. Wide
runways allowed formation take-offs and landings. After the
war, the cities were given control of the airport and the
city would just pave the center with asphalt over the
crumbling concrete.
--
James H. Macklin
ATP,CFI,A&P
"C. Massey" wrote in message
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| "Andrew Sarangan" wrote in message
|
oups.com...
| I am getting tired of comments like "controller should
have warned the
| pilots", or "taxiway was confusing", or "runway lights
were off" etc..
| One could not find a better example of a pure and simple
pilot error.
| The runway was clear, the weather was VFR, and the
airplane was working
| fine. It is highly likely that this was the only
airplane maneuvering
| at the airport. Even if the controller had cleared him
to takeoff on
| runway 26, the responsibility would have been on the
pilot to decline
| that clearance. Yet, a perfectly good airplane was run
off the runway
| and ploughed into the woods.
|
| NTSB is investigating whether the pilots had coffee that
morning, and
| how much sleep they got. This is a futile exercise.
Taxiing and
| departing from a relatively quiet airport under VFR
conditions is an
| extremely low workload situation. We are not talking
about shooting a
| non-precision approach to minimums in a thunderstorm
after a full day
| of flying. A pilot should be able to do this even if he
had partied all
| night at the bar. What happened was gross negligence.
|
| I shudder to think that my wife and baby flew the Comair
CRJ only a few
| days prior to this accident. Fortunately they are flying
back with me
| in our trusty GA airplane. I feel a lot better about it
than trusting
| my family to stupid mistakes that even my students
pilots know how to
| avoid. I sincerely feel for those who lost loved ones.
They have the
| right be very angry. I am angry, and I did not lose
anything.
|
|
|
| I have a question. I will say right off of the bat that I
do not have any
| pilot ratings, but I do have A&P ratings, so I am somewhat
familiar with
| FAR's. I am unfamiliar with any SOP's.
|
| 1. Is the ATC responsible for making sure the aircraft is
on the correct
| runway?
|
| 2. Aren't there check's that are made from inside the
cockpit to assure they
| are on the correct runway?
|
| 3. Looking at the two runways using google earth, it looks
as though the
| actual pavement is the same width on both runways in
question, but all of
| the documents that I have seen show a 75 ft and a 150 ft
runway. Why is
| this? Someone mentioned the 75 ft runway is actually 150
ft wide, but the
| markings make it 75 ft usable. Why would that be?
|
|
| Thanks for your answers...
|
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