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Originally Posted by kalin_10
So back to the original question, does anyone know yxe's hourly and daily capacity... Must say an amusing conversation
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Well, you'd have to ask the tower and IFR controllers that. Lol!!! YXE/YQR though can have an incredible potential number of arrivals/departures within a 24-hour period!
Ok, I give in here, read this! Tower hours for YXE/YQR are as follows:
YXE: March 11-Nov 03: Mon-Fri: 6:00 a.m. - 10:45 p.m.; Sat-Sun: 6:45 a.m. - 10:45 p.m.
Nov 04-March 10: 6:45 a.m. - 10:45 p.m.
(7 days/week.)
YQR: April 01-Oct 31: 6:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.; Nov 01-March 31: 6:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.
(7 days/week.)
After our towers close, our Control Zones change from Class "D" airspace to Class "E" airspace. (5 NM radius.) That means pilots, with advisement from Flight Services, coordinate themselves with regards to arrivals and departures without the need for tower services - even though the ACCs (Area Control Centres) are still running - 24hrs/day.
All that said, aircraft departing the
same runway normally have a 2-minute departure separation - for a few obvious reasons. Departures on intersecting runways are cleared for take-off after a preceding aircraft crosses the centreline of the succeeding aircraft: No departure time separation required for that. All that is required is proof of separation. Towers (when open) govern separation times. When towers are closed, separation is at the captain's discretion.
As far as YXE's [pre-expansion] terminal capacity is, I believe it is 1.4 million pax/year. After expansion: 2.2 million.
YQR was recently bumped up from 1.3 to 1.35 million pax/year. Yay!
(Though future expansion will be well over 2 million/year.)
Divide those numbers by 365.25, and you have your [typical] terminal pax capacity/day.
(Except for outsized events - such as Grey Cup.)
Aircraft arrivals/departures: approximately 30/hour.
I hope this helps.