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
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
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.
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.
And when they do turn around to the 6/7 configuration, it's a mess.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.
And when they do turn around to the 6/7 configuration, it's a mess.
"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..."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.
"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..."
"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..."
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.Well if I'm leaving JFK or EWR for LAX with that kinda clearance then we've got a problem![]()
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.