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Originally Posted by OrdoSeclorum
This is an informed guess, but I'm under the impression that DFW has a ridonkulous amount of separation between their runways. Given the demand, they could land like 300 plans an hour there or something.
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Per satellite view, it doesn't look much different from other airports. (I'm considering only the big group of parallel runways - if you include the one pair that's at an angle, then yeah, but I'm not sure you can pack in arrival streams simultaneously on non-parallel runways. Or maybe you can??)
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Originally Posted by F1 Tommy
That new south runway 10C/28C has a strange approach pattern due to it being to close to the next runway 10L/28R. The city can brag but that new runway will have some restrictions due to that fact.
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Right; I've looked at aerial images of many of the biggest airports and it's very common to have two runways seemingly right next to each other (i.e., maybe only a taxiway or two between them, and presumably way too close to have 2 departures simultaneously). I figure this is to allow arrivals on one and departures on the other.
So, if my assumption is right and only 1 simultaneous arrival stream is possible on any close-together pair of runways, then I see only ORD as having 3 major areas of wide separation, thus allowing 4 mutually far-separated runways.
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