It isn't just the traffic ON the runway, but the traffic in
the air within many miles that has to go somewhere.



"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in
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| "Nils Rostedt"
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| One guesstimation regarding how quickly a runway can be
cleared for a
| landing in the opposite direction. It's not uncommon to
have three
| airplanes on the departure runway - one accelerating,
one taxiing into
| position at the end and another (the next for take-off)
taxiing into
| position at an intersection. Allow 1 minute for the
take-off run and
| another for initial climbout. As for the other two
airplanes, behind them
| is typically the departure queue blocking the quickest
exit, so they will
| need to taxi on the runway to the next free exit before
vacating the
| runway. That probably takes the same 2 minutes. So 2
minutes minimum. Then
| consider the wake turbulence, if it was a heavy taking
off - do you really
| want to land into the wake? That might cause an
emergency all by itself.
| Just my $0.02.
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| So there'd be no hurry then.
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