bob turner
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We have a 150 foot wide cross-runway without an instrument approach, re-paved this year to its full width of 150 feet. According to management, it must be narrowed to 75' width by painting diagonal stripes on all that new pavement, because the feds will not allow a VFR runway to be 150' wide.
It is actually worse than that - in my opinion they should have closed the runway totally, and converted it to parking. It is used for croswinds above eight knots, to ensure that our students never learn proper crosswind techniques. It has been closed for almost a year while they repave it, proving, in my opinion, that it is useless.
And dangerous, because the final approach is limited by two other airports, and a midair is almost guaranteed someday on a two mile final.
Opinion, of course.
Grumble.
It is actually worse than that - in my opinion they should have closed the runway totally, and converted it to parking. It is used for croswinds above eight knots, to ensure that our students never learn proper crosswind techniques. It has been closed for almost a year while they repave it, proving, in my opinion, that it is useless.
And dangerous, because the final approach is limited by two other airports, and a midair is almost guaranteed someday on a two mile final.
Opinion, of course.
Grumble.
