boeing 777-300
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Correct, no runway closures because of the incident. I was refering to the runway closure for construction.
LAX Close Call
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Correct, no runway closures because of the incident. I was refering to the runway closure for construction.
Captain_Bob
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Gotcha! My bad!boeing 777-300 said:
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Lee D
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"Embs are runway hogs too, lucky miss."
EMB 120's really are not too shabby when it comes to take off, but it sounds like it might have been an intersection t/o. Off the top of my noggin around three thousand at a sea level airport. Could look it up, but that would require more effort.
Yeah those are tight high speed taxi ways. Not to armchair QB too much, but even if they clear me across the parallel I look or have my FO look, (Depending on how we are crossing.) to make sure nothing is coming down that runway before I cross. Of course after a long 12+ hour day none of us is as mentally quick as we would like to be. Not sure what happened with those guys.
Speaking of slow taxi speeds at LAX. I came in from MRY to LAX yesterday. (After waiting an extra hour and a half for ATC flow.) Anyway we followed a Lufthansa 747 down on 24R. Even flying high on the glideslope we still bounced off his wake all the way down to touchdown. So I decide to land long, and we exit far enough down the runway to do the bridge transition to the South side. (At the West end of the airport.) No big deal, just a few extra min of taxi time. WRONG!! I meet my Lufthansa 747 friend there and ahead of him is a Singapore Airline 747 who is taxing about as fast as my 2 year old walks. Combine that with some extra Sunday traffic it took me nearly 24 min to get to the gate. Yikes!! Too bad the controllers didn't tell him to move it along.
EMB 120's really are not too shabby when it comes to take off, but it sounds like it might have been an intersection t/o. Off the top of my noggin around three thousand at a sea level airport. Could look it up, but that would require more effort.
Yeah those are tight high speed taxi ways. Not to armchair QB too much, but even if they clear me across the parallel I look or have my FO look, (Depending on how we are crossing.) to make sure nothing is coming down that runway before I cross. Of course after a long 12+ hour day none of us is as mentally quick as we would like to be. Not sure what happened with those guys.
Speaking of slow taxi speeds at LAX. I came in from MRY to LAX yesterday. (After waiting an extra hour and a half for ATC flow.) Anyway we followed a Lufthansa 747 down on 24R. Even flying high on the glideslope we still bounced off his wake all the way down to touchdown. So I decide to land long, and we exit far enough down the runway to do the bridge transition to the South side. (At the West end of the airport.) No big deal, just a few extra min of taxi time. WRONG!! I meet my Lufthansa 747 friend there and ahead of him is a Singapore Airline 747 who is taxing about as fast as my 2 year old walks. Combine that with some extra Sunday traffic it took me nearly 24 min to get to the gate. Yikes!! Too bad the controllers didn't tell him to move it along.