David Culp schrieb:
On a related note, here are some airports that the FAA considers special, as
of 1990, and why:
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David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Further to Curt's last post about flattening rivers, how would
everyone feel about flattening airports?
When you look at large airports, say with runways over 3 km, you'll find
quite a few where the runways follow the terrain at least over a difference
Martin Spott writes:
David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Further to Curt's last post about flattening rivers, how would
everyone feel about flattening airports?
When you look at large airports, say with runways over 3 km, you'll find
quite a few where the runways follow the terrain
Don't recall the specific change in height of the two runway ends, but KMRY
has quite a downslope change toward the West as one real world example.
jj
For what it's worth, when I was looking into this, I found some
examples of runways with their ends literally at least 100' different
in
Some good examples of un-flat runways:
KATL ( especially 8R, concave )
San Jose, Costa Rica ( steep slope, strong visual illusion )
Guatemala City, Guatemala ( very concave runway )
On a related note, here are some airports that the FAA considers special, as
of 1990, and why:
Curtis L. Olson writes:
For what it's worth, when I was looking into this, I found some
examples of runways with their ends literally at least 100' different
in elevation. Most aren't nearly that far off, but there are a
few.
For a 10,000 ft runway, that would require less than a 1%
Martin Spott writes:
Further to Curt's last post about flattening rivers, how would
everyone feel about flattening airports?
When you look at large airports, say with runways over 3 km, you'll find
quite a few where the runways follow the terrain at least over a difference
in the
David Megginson writes:
Curtis L. Olson writes:
For what it's worth, when I was looking into this, I found some
examples of runways with their ends literally at least 100' different
in elevation. Most aren't nearly that far off, but there are a
few.
For a 10,000 ft runway,
Norman Vine writes:
Have you tried preinserting some of the the higher res srtm1 data
to terra innide of and on the edges of the airport polygons ?
This shoud be quite accurate.
Maybe *too* accurate -- at the resolution, a 747 parked on the field
will start to show up in the
David Megginson writes:
Norman Vine writes:
Have you tried preinserting some of the the higher res srtm1 data
to terra innide of and on the edges of the airport polygons ?
This shoud be quite accurate.
Maybe *too* accurate -- at the resolution, a 747 parked on the field
will
Curtis L. Olson writes:
Norman Vine writes:
David Megginson writes:
Norman Vine writes:
Have you tried preinserting some of the the higher res srtm1 data
to terra innide of and on the edges of the airport polygons ?
This shoud be quite accurate.
Maybe
David Megginson writes:
Curtis L. Olson writes:
For what it's worth, when I was looking into this, I found some
examples of runways with their ends literally at least 100' different
in elevation. Most aren't nearly that far off, but there are a
few.
For a 10,000 ft runway, that
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