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  2. Runway - Wikipedia

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    Runway 13R at Palm Springs International Airport An MD-11 at one end of a runway. In aviation, a runway is an elongated, rectangular surface designed for the landing and takeoff of an aircraft. [1]

  3. Airfield traffic pattern - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of this is to provide arriving aircraft with the best runway to land on according to the wind direction. Runway orientation is determined from historical data of the prevailing winds in the area. This is especially important for single-runway airports that do not have the option of a second runway pointed in an alternative direction.

  4. Aeronautical chart conventions (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The location of each airport and presence of control towers is indicated with a circle, or with an outline of the hard-surfaced runways (if over 8,069 feet long). Blue shows an airport with a control tower and magenta for others. Military airstrips (without hard-surface runways) are shown with two concentric circles.

  5. ICAO airport code - Wikipedia

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    ICAO airport codes do not begin with I or J or X or Q, though the Jezero Crater on Mars is assigned the special ICAO code JZRO. [2] Codes beginning with I (Ixx and Ixxx) are often used for navigational aids such as radio beacons, while the Q code is reserved for international radiocommunications and non-geographical special use.

  6. Automatic terminal information service - Wikipedia

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    Automatic terminal information service, or ATIS, is a continuous broadcast of recorded aeronautical information in busier terminal areas.ATIS broadcasts contain essential information, such as current weather information, active runways, available approaches, and any other information required by the pilots, such as important NOTAMs.

  7. Takeoff and Landing Performance Assessment - Wikipedia

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    TALPA assessment generates a Runway Condition Code (RWYCC) ranging from 6 to 0, where 6 indicates a dry runway and 0 signifies nil conditions, meaning braking action is minimal to non-existent. Separate runway condition codes are published for each third of a runway, and pilots use a Runway Condition Assessment Matrix (RCAM) to calculate their ...

  8. List of airports with triple takeoff/landing capability

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    Incheon International Airport: Incheon: South Korea: 4 ICN/RKSI Indira Gandhi International Airport: Delhi: India: 4 DEL/VIDP [4] Although runway 27/09 is not magnetically aligned with the other runways, existing approaches permit triple parallel operations. Istanbul Airport: Istanbul: Turkey: 5 IST/LTFM [5] King Abdulaziz International Airport ...

  9. Approach plate - Wikipedia

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    An approach plate for the ILS or LOC approach to runway 14L at Cologne Bonn Airport, Germany.. Approach plates (or, more formally, instrument approach procedure charts) are the printed or digital charts of instrument approach procedures that pilots use to fly instrument approaches during instrument flight rules (IFR) operations.