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Toronto's Pearson airport poses serious crash risks
The Transportation Safety Board is recommending that the layout of two runways at Canada's busiest airport be changed to lessen the risk of collisions between aircraft. (www.cbc.ca) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Most of the anxiety comes from the arriving aircraft not holding short of the stop line on the next runway and the nose sticks into the departing runways airspace. Inattention and unfamiliarity generally accounts for most of the issues as YYZ has some of the best ATC personnel on the planet!
GTAA=Greater Toronto Airport Authority, but the joke is GTAA= Go To Another Airport. The personnel are great sure, but the rules that they operate under not. Its like its purposely set up to create confusion and long taxi's. For no good reason. Yes it needs fixed!
Why dont they use the 24L/5R runway for takeoffs and 24R/5L for landings? This would lessen the cross traffic, no? Or is there a logistical reason that I'm not aware of?
Expediency, departing aircraft would still have to cross a runway one at a time and you can only have one aircraft on the other side ready to depart, instead of a whole line.
Skybrary has a well-informed fact sheet about the design and ops of parallel runways: https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Parallel_Runway_Operation#Some_airports_operating_parallel_runways
That's what happens when you have parallel runways too close together.