Is there Something Wrong with this Airport?

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-06-15 05:19pm

This here is Denver International as seen from a Terminal Aeronautical Chart. Do the way the five runways are laid out kinda look a little funny to you?

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-06-15 05:22pm

Hmm, Sieg Heil anyone?

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-06-15 05:22pm

It's a bird!

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-06-15 05:23pm

. . . Different . . .

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-06-15 05:23pm

It looks like it was made by a dislexic nazi.

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2003-06-15 05:24pm

ROFLAMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(That many runways??? Couldn't they decide on the prevailing winds?)

BrYaN19kc · Post by **BrYaN19kc** » 2003-06-15 05:27pm

Thank you very much! --copies and saves chart for future use with Flight Simulator --

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2003-06-15 05:37pm

Yeah, that Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy has got a hold here in Colorado. The individual work cubbies in the media center at my school look like swastikas due to the way they're arranged. Oh yeah, and my school's adminstration are fucking Nazis.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2003-06-15 06:57pm

LOL Ohh shit. ~Jason

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-06-15 07:06pm

Ignoring what it kind of resembles, that is a very fucked up layout.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-06-15 08:12pm

Yes, it is.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-06-15 08:39pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:Ignoring what it kind of resembles, that is a very fucked up layout.

You've haven't see fucked up until you see Chicago O'Hare (which is currently being reconfigured into a more sensible layout)

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-06-15 08:39pm

Warspite wrote:ROFLAMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(That many runways??? Couldn't they decide on the prevailing winds?)

ORD and DFW have seven runways, IIRC, and ORD is scheduled to get an eight.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-06-15 08:45pm

Montcalm wrote:It looks like it was made by a dislexic nazi.

Heil Seig! I mean..

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-06-15 09:07pm

Screwy as it looks, it still has got to be safer than Stapleton was. Scariest landing I've ever had! It was like a Ju87 attack, except it was in a 737.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-06-15 09:14pm

phongn wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:Ignoring what it kind of resembles, that is a very fucked up layout.
You've haven't see fucked up until you see Chicago O'Hare (which is currently being reconfigured into a more sensible layout)

<SNIP>

They better install signal light on every intersection.

"Flight 203 you have green light,flight 675 you have red light,flight 422 slow down its yellow".

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2003-06-15 09:20pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:Ignoring what it kind of resembles, that is a very fucked up layout.

Actually it is a very good layout. You can have five jets land at once without doing land and hold short operations. This is because none of the runways intersect and all five planes could do go arounds and not expect to hit each other.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2003-06-15 09:32pm

But far more importantly, its ugly

I think it would make a good deal more sense to move the 9-27S and stick it just to the north of 9-27N.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-06-15 09:40pm

JediNeophyte wrote:Yeah, that Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy has got a hold here in Colorado.

Nazi's = Socialist =/ (supposed to be a not-equal sign...) Right Wing Conservative. We VRWC are some cold blooded capitalist swine, not fascist socialists.

Oh yeah, and my school's adminstration are fucking Nazis.

Whose school isn't?

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-06-15 09:43pm

BTW, I noticed this last time I flew into Denver, it is, uhm, odd to say the least.

BTW, Phong, when are they gonna get done with O'Hare? That right there is a screwey looking airport.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-06-16 12:20am

The pictures won't show up for me, and I'd really like to see them...

Edit: Nevermind, I can see them now. I wonder if they really did have a drunk Nazi design the runway layout for Denver.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-06-16 12:48am

From here that airpost looks like a little box with an X in it.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-06-16 02:07am

Sieg Zeon!

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-06-16 02:12am

phongn wrote: You've haven't see fucked up until you see Chicago O'Hare (which is currently being reconfigured into a more sensible layout)

[img]http://www2.latech.edu/~tbw005/TACs/ORD%20TAC.jpg[img]

I've flown though it several times, the place seemed screwy but I didn't know it was that bad.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-06-16 12:28pm

Improvements for ORD: http://modernization.ohare.com/program_ ... ration.htm

It really does have a miserable configuration; when flying from ORD -> TPA, we spent something like half an hour wandering to different runways as the wind shifted.