Low fuel emergency in DFW

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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