Timeline for Why aren't runway numbers painted in a higher aspect ratio?
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| Jan 14, 2019 at 14:58 | comment | added | StephenS | KATL, KORD and KDFW have 5 parallel runways. There's no significant risk of lining up on the wrong-numbered set, and you really only have to worry about L/R or L/C/R when on a visual approach rather than ILS approach. | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 14:16 | comment | added | Juan Jimenez | That reminds me that years ago in Puerto Rico an Avianca 747 tried to land at TJIG instead of TJSJ, even though there is only one runway at TJIG and had the wrong runway number. Made one heck of a racket and scared the beejezus out of the entire residential area. | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 11:48 | comment | added | user | Adding to @JanNash's mention of KLAX, especially in relation to the mention of uncontrolled airfields, there's also the issue of multiple airports close together. My home field is like that; there's another airport very close by, both with runways on the same heading. In that case, one of the airports has the runway number off by one, to disambiguate the two. | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 10:39 | comment | added | Juan Jimenez | Ah. It's California. 'Nuff said. :) | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 10:35 | comment | added | Jan Nash | Also, there are no crossing rwys there, which might also make it less confusing. | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 10:32 | comment | added | Jan Nash | KLAX is an example for an airport with more than three parallel runways. If there are more than three parallel runways, the numbers are one-off (as explained in this answer), which might make the identification of the rwy by looking at your heading a bit confusing (e.g. if you land on one of the 06 rwys in LAX, you still have to maintain a 070 heading on final, since the rwy headings are all 070.7. Nevertheless, the runway pairs are separated from each other by the airport buildings and there are no crossing rwys, which might make it easier. | |
| Jan 14, 2019 at 10:26 | history | edited | Juan Jimenez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 14, 2019 at 10:06 | history | answered | Juan Jimenez | CC BY-SA 4.0 |