"Heathrow and Gatwick airports: Ministers mull rail link" (twixt the two)
In message , at 23:42:58 on
Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Charles Ellson remarked:
So why does it have "08L" at the west end and "26R" at the east end? It
may not be a very good runway, but it IS a runway, and is shown as such
on pilots' charts.
It's best to describe it as an alternate runway, not a second runway.
Successive flights alternate between them ?
No. The "taxiway" runway is an alternative to the normal one when the
latter is closed for some reason.
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Roland Perry
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