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Ron Lee wrote: Can anyone identify an airport where gliders and powered aircraft use the same runway? Do they use opposite traffic patterns? Any other operational issues? Ron Lee Brian and Gillian Spreckley used to launch their South African operation from the same runway in M'mabatho that 707s and 747s used for touch-and-gos. Glider patterns on one side, power on the other, and a control tower. Sequencing was interesting and sometimes very noisy, but far from impossible. For High Country Soaring's operations on Ely, Nevada's runway 18/36, gliders are staged alongside the overrun and taxiways for launch and pulled into place with golf carts. It worked very well. Landings had you stopping at the mid-field taxiway, and being whisked off by the crew. Jim |
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