Rwy 24L vs Rwy 24R

You could always ask them what their policy is - or if there is any
policy at all. It may be whatever the controller on duty thinks
appropriate. I used to fly out of an airport with parallel runways, and
noticed that they seemed to prefer the left one (which was slightly
wider) when traffic was light. If it was busy, both would be in use,
with left traffic on the left and right traffic on the right.

Some years ago I flew into a very busy parallel runway airport in the
SF Bay area. The controller told me
to "follow the plane ahead" - which I did until on final. Since he
hadn't cleared me to land, I asked. Guess
what? He had forgotten me - and at tle last possible moment switched me
from the right to the left. If there was conflicting traffic I never
saw it - and still don't know why the switch.

David Johnson

In article . com, wrote:
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.

Lots of reasons already posted. In particular at Trudeau International,
24R is longer (11,000' vs 9000') and gets the "bigger" traffic. The GA
terminals are right off 24L. In fact, coming in 06R, it's common to
stay in ground effect for a few thousand feet to make for shorter taxi
on the runway (you get off at L, which is only a couple thousand feet
short of the departure end of 06R).

Other airports, such as PDX (Portland, OR) have similar arrangements.
San Jose, CA has runways 12L/R (30R/L) and 13. GA lands on on 13/31

It's not a parallel, but Ottawa International (MacDonald-Cartier) has
an entirely separate airport for small GA. Look at runway 04/22 (and
according to the airport diagram in the CFS, it looks like there may
have once been a 35/17).

The flight school that used to be based at CYUL seems to be long gone,
but when I started training there, there was one time coming back from
the North on a right base for 24L. The Air Canada pilot on a straight
in to 24L calls the tower and says, "Is that little Cessna Supposed
to be there?" Tower says, "Yes, and he's looking good. He'll be off
before you get there."

They did give me an odd one last year in the winter when my nose wheel
was shy about coming out: they told me to make right traffic for 24L
and overfly 24R on upwind. Fortunately, the gear came down after I
slowed down a little more.

On another recent occasion, I made a controller at CYUL laugh. The
active runway was 24L, but Taxiway R was blocked by construction so
they offered an intersection departure at L. He said something to
to the effect that there was (something like) 7000' available and would
this be acceptable? I told him it was a stretch, but I thought I
could manage it.


Morris

Journeyman wrote in
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Other airports, such as PDX (Portland, OR) have similar arrangements.
San Jose, CA has runways 12L/R (30R/L) and 13. GA lands on on 13/31

There is no runway 13 at SJC. They have 11/29, 12R/30L, and 12L/30R.
Before 12L/30R was lengthened, GA used both outside runways (11/29,
12L/30R) and the airlines used 12R/30L. Now GA is mostly on 11/29, with
12R/30L used for landing traffice and 12L/30R for departures.

--
Marty Shapiro
Silicon Rallye Inc.

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In article , Marty Shapiro wrote:

Other airports, such as PDX (Portland, OR) have similar arrangements.
San Jose, CA has runways 12L/R (30R/L) and 13. GA lands on on 13/31

There is no runway 13 at SJC. They have 11/29, 12R/30L, and 12L/30R.
Before 12L/30R was lengthened, GA used both outside runways (11/29,
12L/30R) and the airlines used 12R/30L. Now GA is mostly on 11/29, with
12R/30L used for landing traffice and 12L/30R for departures.

I stand corrected. I flew into that airport recently, but only sat
in row 23.


Morris (prefers the front left seat)