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Flying yesterday I saw something I hadnt run across before.

We have all seen runway designators such as

34L
34R
34C

Any guesses what this is?

34W

no cheating with flightaware etc, and Spike is disqualified from the competition. You have 30 minutes, Go!
 
(sits all frustrated, quivering with hand in air...)
 
;) I wish I could answer but time to "soak" in the hot tub!

I'm thinking it's seaplane base designator for runway's. Fly the eastern/western shore of maryland and search airnav for places to vist and explore, you learn all kinds of stuff!

http://www.airnav.com/airport/M06

Seaplane Base Services

Parking: buoyAirframe service: MINOR
Runway Information

Runway E/W

Dimensions: 8000 x 200 ft. / 2438 x 61 mSurface: waterRUNWAY E RUNWAY WTraffic pattern: leftleftObstructions: brdgsnone
Runway N/S

Dimensions: 8000 x 200 ft. / 2438 x 61 mSurface: waterRUNWAY N RUNWAY STraffic pattern: leftleftObstructions: nonebrdgs
 

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Gary has to be specific, what does the W stand for?

Spike gets half points for the great avatar.
 
you guys still have it, this was a channel of water parallel to the pavement at KARA in S Loosiana. Called the airport 7miles out, but didnt realize til I was 3 miles that the 'strip' that was most prominent was the ditch full of water, reflecting the bright overcast.
I wonder if anyone's ever lined up on it when they were not equipped?
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...5217,-91.880379&spn=0.01527,0.040169&t=h&z=15

http://204.108.4.16/d-tpp/0802/05040AD.PDF

see photo at airnav
http://airnav.com/airport/KARA
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
Flying yesterday I saw something I hadnt run across before.

We have all seen runway designators such as

34L
34R
34C

Any guesses what this is?

34W
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Water.

Edit: I didn't want to cheat by reading the whole thread, but it looks like I was too slow to beat some other folks... And now I wish I could remember where I've seen this before.
 
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That would rate a second look to make sure what I was looking at.....

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We see a lot of those "W" runways up here in the land of the midnight sun.
 
Let'sgoflying! said:
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I wonder if anyone's ever lined up on it when they were not equipped?
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I've shot the VOR or TACAN 16 in there several times. You'll cross the centerline for 16W long before you hit the MAP or centerline of 16. You could easily bite off on the wrong runway under low visibility if you weren't cognizant of the other runway.

The lineboys there said that there have actually been 1 or 2 inadvertant "landings" on 16w. Don't know if this is true or not.

Maddog
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flyingcheesehead said:
Water.

Edit: I didn't want to cheat by reading the whole thread, but it looks like I was too slow to beat some other folks... And now I wish I could remember where I've seen this before.
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3B5, where I'll be taking my Skyhawk before end of March(for Annual) is Twitchell's Airport, Turner, Maine. There's 12/30 and there's the number I don't recall. I've never landed on it because if I did I'd be considerably Wet. And pilots come over from Europe to get their float plane rating at Twitchell's, so well are they known over there.

HR
 
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