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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]
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!
The article says YYZ "is "different from almost every other major airport in North America" and has several "uncommon" design features". Yet LAX has an almost identical configuration for the north runway complex as can bee seen here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9467963,-118.4114156,2629m/data=!3m1!1e3
The LAX south runway complex does include an intermediate taxiway between the two runways. I've never seen any evidence it is inherently safer but perhaps that is the case.
LAX uses the inboard runways for departures and the outer runways for landings. I've landed on the south complex dozens of times and almost always the aircraft stops prior to the inboard runway and waits for a departure to clear. Seems like it's pretty much SOP.
I don't see how they can claim YYZ is uniquely unsafe when the second busiest airport in North america has virtually the exact same layout.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.9467963,-118.4114156,2629m/data=!3m1!1e3
The LAX south runway complex does include an intermediate taxiway between the two runways. I've never seen any evidence it is inherently safer but perhaps that is the case.
LAX uses the inboard runways for departures and the outer runways for landings. I've landed on the south complex dozens of times and almost always the aircraft stops prior to the inboard runway and waits for a departure to clear. Seems like it's pretty much SOP.
I don't see how they can claim YYZ is uniquely unsafe when the second busiest airport in North america has virtually the exact same layout.
ATL is set up similarly, and it seems to run pretty smoothly for how much traffic it handles.
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?
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
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.
Another thought occurs to me, though this wasn’t mentioned in the article - I assume where there are parallel runways used for simultaneous takeoffs and landings, the approach lights to the takeoff runway are turned off so as not to confuse pilots on approach?