Rwy 24L vs Rwy 24R

Don Tuite wrote:

Other folk's answers seem to be assuming commercial IFR traffic. In
my experience in general aviation VFR, the assignment is based in part
on where you are when you first call in. Based on that, you'll get
assigned the base or downwind entry that involves the least
maneuvering.

At Palm Springs, CA, VFR traffic tend to be vectored to the parallel runway
that provides them the closest taxi to the FBO, given that there is one FBO
east and one west of the runways, not the runway requiring the least amount
of maneuvering.



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Peter

"Don Tuite" wrote in message
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Other folk's answers seem to be assuming commercial IFR traffic. In
my experience in general aviation VFR, the assignment is based in part
on where you are when you first call in. Based on that, you'll get
assigned the base or downwind entry that involves the least
maneuvering.

(Sometimes, as is the case at Palo Alto, in California, one runway may
have traffic patterns on each side. Which one you're assigned depends
on where you're coming from.)

For practicing touch and goes, instructors with lower-time primary
students may request the longer runway.

The airports I've flown from will run T&G's from one (usually the shorter)
then shift you over to the other for your full stop.


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

I've also found that if I depart IFR I"m more likely to get the
airline's runway than the GA runway at most airports.

-Robert

In article om,
I've also found that if I depart IFR I"m more likely to get the
airline's runway than the GA runway at most airports.

That's certainly true at HPN. 16-34 is the big runway used by jets,
but spam cans often depart 11, mostly because it's a whole lot less
taxiing from the GA ramp. Except IFR. If you're IFR and ask to
depart 11, you'll almost always get turned down and sent to 16 or 34.

Noise, taxi distance to the ramp, type of approach on each
runway.



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ups.com...
| Hi everyone, I have a general question about runways. In
Montreal for
| example (CYUL) or anywhere else. What would be a factor
making planes
| land on Rwy 24L vs landing on 24R. I understand that
prevailing winds
| play a role in determining if its 24L or 06L, but I cant
figure how
| they decide to use left or right.
|
| thanks again!
|

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Hi everyone, I have a general question about runways. In Montreal for
example (CYUL) or anywhere else. What would be a factor making planes
land on Rwy 24L vs landing on 24R. I understand that prevailing winds
play a role in determining if its 24L or 06L, but I cant figure how
they decide to use left or right.

thanks again!

I recall once when listening to traffic on LiveATC one busy
evening, the pilots were being asked which side they wanted.

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Skywise wrote:
I recall once when listening to traffic on LiveATC one busy
evening, the pilots were being asked which side they wanted.

At PTK, they often ask where you're parking, and assign your landing
runway based on that. If I hear them asking everyone where they're
parking, I'll tell them on initial contact, and they handle that as a
request.

Depends where you are parking. Airlines and GA pilots will request
certain runways to limit taxi time. Often the GA/military/airlines are
on different sides of the fields so they generally get that most
advantageous runway for their location.

-Robert

Years ago I was a passenger on an airliner landing at Stapleton in Denver,
Colorado. I was listening to ATC and for some reason the cabin crew wasn't
blabbering. We had been cleared for the visual to 17L and were on about a
five mile final when the tower asked if we wanted 17R. One of the crew said
yes and requested to "fly the runway." That was approved. We made a smooth
transition to line up with 17R, whose threshold was about 5000 feet south of
the left runway's. From my window seat on the left side of the plane I
watched as we flew and then taxied past many planes waiting on the taxiway
between the runways. We turned off at the end and taxied west a short
distance to our gate. I'd never heard of "fly the runway" before, and I
haven't heard of it since. While leaving the plane I told the captain how
cool I thought that maneuver was. "Yeah," he said with a smile, "we passed
about a dozen planes with that one!"

A typical configuration for more recent airport development consists of
parallel runways on opposite sides of the airport, with land-side
facilities in the center. Expansion plans for this configuration often
consist of doubling these, so there is a takeoff and landing runway on
each side. In this type of configuration, because the runways are spaced
by a relatively great distance, and because they don't want to have a lot
of traffic crossing over, the runway choice is often determined (in
addition to all of the other considerations already mentioned here) by
the departure and arrival procedures. In the case of a 06/24 you may find
that traffic departing to the north and west is more often sent to
06L/24R, and their departure procedure never brings them anywhere near
the 06R/24L traffic departing to the south and east. Same for arrival
procedures.

GF