Andy Ross writes:

> Carsten Hoefer wrote:
> > when I start Flightgear at EDDF my plane is allways positioned at the
> > end of runway 36. Unfortunately there is no runway 36. There is a runway
> > 18, but it is only used in one direction (18).
> 
> Is this the airport? :
> 
>   http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=50.025718,8.555946&spn=0.093349,0.166992&t=k
> 
> Google doesn't have enough photo resolution in this area to read the
> numbers on the south end of the runway, but it certainly looks from
> the layout like runway 36 should be usable and marked, even if normal
> operations never use the northbound direction.  I've never heard of a
> unidirectional runway...
> 

Isn't one of the Nepalese ones with a big mountain at one end (Lukla?) 
effectively unidirectional due to the obstacle?

Lack of per-end runway details in the data format is a pain though - a lot of 
runways have precision markings at one end only.

Cheers - Dave

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