Flown to an airshow's closed airport?

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Ricky wrote:

On Oct 7, 5:04*pm, Dana M. Hague
d(dash)m(dash)hague(at)comcast(dot)net wrote:

I figured it was OK to land on the far end of cross runway
which wasn't X'd out...

-Dana

Well, what's wrong with landing on a non-Xed runway? Does an X on one
make the entire airport un-landable?
I mean, I know the airport is closed (for an airshow?) but legally,
isn't it o.k. to land an the runway you did?

Ricky

It depends on where the X s are positioned.

If they are on both ends of a runway, it means that runway is closed. If
they are in the center of the airport, it means that the whole airport
is closed.

I had a similar experience at the Abbottsford Airshow in Canada in 1975.

They were accepting traffic on one runway distant from airshow center,
while the airshow was in progress, with no problems. You could not do
that in the US, as the whole airport would be NOTAMed as CLOSED.

Different rules for different countries!

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On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:51:23 -0400, Ricky wrote:


Well, what's wrong with landing on a non-Xed runway? Does an X on one
make the entire airport un-landable?
I mean, I know the airport is closed (for an airshow?) but legally,
isn't it o.k. to land an the runway you did?

I don't remember the details, it was a long time ago... maybe the X was in
the center, probably the whole airport was NOTAM'd closed.

Or maybe the FAA guy later decided what we did was in fact legal but
didn't want to admit it.

-Dana

"Dana" "d(dash)m(dash)hague(at)comcast(dot)net" wrote in message
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On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:51:23 -0400, Ricky wrote:


Well, what's wrong with landing on a non-Xed runway? Does an X on one
make the entire airport un-landable?
I mean, I know the airport is closed (for an airshow?) but legally,
isn't it o.k. to land an the runway you did?

I don't remember the details, it was a long time ago... maybe the X was in
the center, probably the whole airport was NOTAM'd closed.

Or maybe the FAA guy later decided what we did was in fact legal but
didn't want to admit it.

It's possible to close only one runway and in fact, this happens quite often
at larger airports with numerous runways.

However if the entire airport has a NOTAM or TFR, you must abide by those
notices which is where 91.103 comes into play.

On Oct 9, 8:23*pm, "Mike" nospam@ microsoft.com wrote:
"Dana" "d(dash)m(dash)hague(at)comcast(dot)net" wrote in message

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On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:51:23 -0400, Ricky wrote:

Well, what's wrong with landing on a non-Xed runway? Does an X on one
make the entire airport un-landable?
I mean, I know the airport is closed (for an airshow?) but legally,
isn't it o.k. to land an the runway you did?

I don't remember the details, it was a long time ago... maybe the X was in
the center, probably the whole airport was NOTAM'd closed.

Or maybe the FAA guy later decided what we did was in fact legal but
didn't want to admit it.

It's possible to close only one runway and in fact, this happens quite often
at larger airports with numerous runways.



Closing one runway happens all the time at KAHN in the Fall. When UGA
has a home game they'll close 2/20 and use it for parking and let the
9/27 primary handle all the traffic.