bob turner
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Out here, the feds are taking great interest in what goes where near a runway. This one is fairly interesting:
About ten years ago the hold lines for our instrument runway were fairly close to the edge of the runway. Somebody decided that they needed to be very far away from the edge of the runway, so they were all moved to lots closer to the parallel runway. We actually lost a runup spot at the departure end.
So now the hold lines for the instrument runway are so far away from the runway that about one pilot every fifteen minutes or so holds short of them, thinking that they are hold bars for the smaller parallel runway.
The federales now are alert to this problem. The fix apparently is to make all taxiways perpendicular to the runway - no more high speed turnoffs. Picture - if the turnoff is at a 45 degree angle, you have to taxi 1.4 x further to get to the hold line, and presumably the feds are now aware of that. So to make sure you cross the hold line, they figure since it will be closer on a perpendicular turnoff you will more easily figure it out.
Nobody remembers how easy it was before they moved the hold lines so far away from the runway.
This is the same group of non- aviators that thinks 124 feet is required in hangar areas to safely taxi a light plane. One wonders how they drive on a freeway.
By the way, they will not allow a wind sock at the approach end of our runways. Somebody might hit it, I guess.
About ten years ago the hold lines for our instrument runway were fairly close to the edge of the runway. Somebody decided that they needed to be very far away from the edge of the runway, so they were all moved to lots closer to the parallel runway. We actually lost a runup spot at the departure end.
So now the hold lines for the instrument runway are so far away from the runway that about one pilot every fifteen minutes or so holds short of them, thinking that they are hold bars for the smaller parallel runway.
The federales now are alert to this problem. The fix apparently is to make all taxiways perpendicular to the runway - no more high speed turnoffs. Picture - if the turnoff is at a 45 degree angle, you have to taxi 1.4 x further to get to the hold line, and presumably the feds are now aware of that. So to make sure you cross the hold line, they figure since it will be closer on a perpendicular turnoff you will more easily figure it out.
Nobody remembers how easy it was before they moved the hold lines so far away from the runway.
This is the same group of non- aviators that thinks 124 feet is required in hangar areas to safely taxi a light plane. One wonders how they drive on a freeway.
By the way, they will not allow a wind sock at the approach end of our runways. Somebody might hit it, I guess.
