"Line up and Wait" by the end of the month!

[Bumblebee]

They're...erm...usually on the left side in the States....right?

Why yes.... That's what I was thinking as well!

 

[chris]

Ive seen em on the right side at several airports, including EWR.

 

[jtrain609]

I think the only reason they end up on the right side is because there is no room to put them on the left. 11/29 at EWR is probably on the right side, though I can't remember exactly as it's been a few years since I've been in there.

 

[OldTownPilot]

Its on the right side of 29. Thats one of the thins mentioned in the report on the 757 that landed on Zulu.

 

[jtrain609]

You mean 29R?



"At 1921, the pilot of flight 1883 called the tower and the tower supervisor advised the pilot "you may have landed on taxiway Zulu." The pilot responded, "it appears as though I did.""

 

[chris]

You mean 29R?



"At 1921, the pilot of flight 1883 called the tower and the tower supervisor advised the pilot "you may have landed on taxiway Zulu." The pilot responded, "it appears as though I did.""

Lol, actually once I was coming into EWR in the RJ, we were doing the ILS for 22 circling to 29. The captain was flying, neither of use could make out the runway short final. We were cleared to land, thought we saw a 747 on the runway so we went around. Turns out were were lined up with the taxiway!! Coming in for the 2nd attempt, I still didnt make out the runway until about 100ft. It was a SKC day too. I absolutely HATE landing on 29 in EWR!

 

[OldTownPilot]

It doesnt help that Zulu is concrete while 29 is paved like the rest of the state.

 

[TheRestoftheStory]

If arbitrary changes in procedure and phraseology drive you nuts, you just wait until your first merger.

If I hear another semantical debate about "preflight" checklists veers "before start" checklists and how one is the pillar of safe over the other I'm going to (theorteically) stab myself on the eye.

Or the "OMGZ take the lights off the before takeoff checklist, they're not a safety item, it's secretarial!" ugh, *face palm*

There was an article in Time magazine recently where an engineer who quit BP before the disaster wrote about what was wrong with their safety program, and his comments ran right along the same line as what you stated. The real problems are ignored so the focus is on the small things in order to have "safety theater" (in the same way that TSA is "security theater").