"Reverse"

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While shooting LAX over the past couple of days, aircraft awaiting departure on 24L were saying that they were at "24L Reverse, ready to go", or something similar to that effect was being said.

Care to fill me in on the use of that at LAX?
 
Not sure for takeoff, but some carriers ask for the reverse high speed turnoff when landing 24L. Maybe that is what you're hearing?
 
Can't be. They were landing on the right, and departing from the left. It was the guys waiting to go on the left.
 
Ah I meant landing 24R. Well if it was the left, they let people go from full length or E8. Not sure what they would be calling a reverse though.
 
Arent most LAX take offs usually on the right and landings on the left? Maybe they were saying that as a precautionary reminder to let everyone know they switched. Ive heard that phrase in LAS on occasion when they temporarily switch departure and landing runways.
 
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LAX departs off 24L and lands 24R. What you probably heard was either the pilots or ATC requesting the "reverse highspeed" taxiway as a way to exit the runway. A normal highspeed taxiway on 6L, i.e. reverse on 24R. In ATC lingo it's been shortened to just "reverse".

Jtsastre
 
jtsastre said:
LAX departs off 24L and lands 24R. What you probably heard was either the pilots or ATC requesting the "reverse highspeed" taxiway as a way to exit the runway. A normal highspeed taxiway on 6L, i.e. reverse on 24R. In ATC lingo it's been shortened to just "reverse".

Jtsastre
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Not always. Every time I fly in there on US Airways or Southwest we've landed on the 24's and also taken off on the 24's. I can't at least in recent memory, ever remember taking off or landing on the 25's.
 
Could it have been a pilot letting TWR know he was ready for an intersection departure FROM the reverse?

Hey, I'm guessing here......
 
jtsastre said:
LAX departs off 24L and lands 24R. What you probably heard was either the pilots or ATC requesting the "reverse highspeed" taxiway as a way to exit the runway. A normal highspeed taxiway on 6L, i.e. reverse on 24R. In ATC lingo it's been shortened to just "reverse".

Jtsastre
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In normal operating conditions with everything open, landing runways are 25L and 24R (the outside runways) and departing runways are 25R and 24L (the inside runways). Occasionally in the night hours or if the weather dictates, they will land the 6s/7s.
 
Maximillian_Jenius said:
Not always. Every time I fly in there on US Airways or Southwest we've landed on the 24's and also taken off on the 24's. I can't at least in recent memory, ever remember taking off or landing on the 25's.
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That's mostly because of the side of the airport the terminals SW uses are on. It's set up like ATL. Inboards are used for departures, outboards are used for arrivals.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
In normal operating conditions with everything open, landing runways are 25L and 24R (the outside runways) and departing runways are 25R and 24L (the inside runways). Occasionally in the night hours or if the weather dictates, they will land the 6s/7s.
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Yeah this. USUALLY it is arrivals on the outboard runways and departures on the inboard. The reverse thing is prolly tower approving someone to exit the runway with a greater than 90 degree turn. Also, and we (SkyW) do this often, when we are doing American Eagle flying and landing 25 L they will let us exit and make a hard right reverse turn onto the taxiway between the runways and taxi down to the remote gate. You may have heard that too.

Otherwise I don't know. I'll have to listen for that next time I go to work.
 
Lee D said:
Yeah this. USUALLY it is arrivals on the outboard runways and departures on the inboard. The reverse thing is prolly tower approving someone to exit the runway with a greater than 90 degree turn. Also, and we (SkyW) do this often, when we are doing American Eagle flying and landing 25 L they will let us exit and make a hard right reverse turn onto the taxiway between the runways and taxi down to the remote gate. You may have heard that too.

Otherwise I don't know. I'll have to listen for that next time I go to work.
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And when they do turn around to the 6/7 configuration, it's a mess.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
I'd imagine so. I haven't done a single flight in the 6/7 configuration in my 2.5 yrs at company. That would be weird. Probably feel like landing at a whole 'nother airport.
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"Cleared to LAX via (fix you've never heard of), (another fix you've never heard of), (radial-DME fix), (somewhere else), direct, maintain four thousand..."
 
Autothrust Blue said:
"Cleared to LAX via (fix you've never heard of), (another fix you've never heard of), (radial-DME fix), (somewhere else), direct, maintain four thousand..."
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When we go Kona winds out here, often the first indication that they have spun Maui or Kona around is getting cleared someplace random.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
This is prop trash problems. The TEC routes down here are based on LAX West or LAX East; as LAX goes the rest of the system is reconfigured to support it.
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Ah that makes sense! I know when we take our morning flights at 7-7:30am that's only 4 am at LA and many times the ATIS at that hour shows landing the 6/7 and opposite trfc departure from 24/25. Or something to that affect. I figure it's late at night and not a whole lot of planes. Regardless, I always set up for 24R and as the day progresses we are back to the 24/25 configuration.
 
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