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Old December 18th 03, 12:05 AM posted to uk.transport,uk.transport.air,uk.transport.london
Malcolm Weir Malcolm Weir is offline
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Default Massive Airport expansion announced
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:10:24 +1030, (Aidan Stanger)
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The runways are offset so there is scope for an early turn.

AFAICS this is not the case for the Heathrow plans.

International Procedures have to be adhered and this is taken into account
when designing the airfield.

There are procedures that should prevent any incedent from occurring.
However, if something goes wrong then Air Traffic Control would have
little time to react, and I consider that to be a problem.

ATC already have "little time to react" in many cases, and it's got
nothing to do with the number of runways.

Did you see the BBC docufake "The Day Britain Stopped"? Their plane
crash scenario is not very realistic under the present situation, but if
a third runway were to be constructed then the risk would increase by
several orders of magnitude.

This is pure nonsense, a simple "fear tactic". (Not to mention that
ridiculous and unfounded hyperbole with that "several orders of
magnitude", a statistic that's based on, errr, nothing).

Los Angeles International Airport has FOUR parallel runways. It ain't
a big deal, despite what the doom-sayers claim.

Malc.
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