Definitely quite a few. My university has a grass strip parallel to 18/36, but it's technically not a runway and just a field kept mowed with cones laid out. But yeah, it's a parallel runway...\__[Ô]__/;1421308 said:Does anyone know of any untowered fields with parallel runways?
Yup, that's my home-drome, and although they don't have an LoA for SODPROPs when the tower is operational anymore, I have routinely done it when the tower's closed. Helps save quite a bit of taxi time in some situations...This may not exactly count, but KSUS has parallel runways and the tower is closed between 2300-0600 local.
I guess the question is, why does it matter? What is the gist of the OP question?
It's because ATC is useless to GA.
\__[Ô]__/;1421437 said:I don't understand what you mean by this . Care to elaborate?
Check out LBL for multiple parallel runways w/o a tower.
I'm curious if you can find parallel runways at a non towered field that each have their own instrument approach; highly doubtful I suspect.
I didn't have to look far.
KRHV is non towered after 10PM local time and has GPS approaches to both runways.
KHEF is a similar situation during non-towered hours.
Never been a problem for me.
My home base KFCM has a similar setup but the north parallel is closed when the tower is closed.This may not exactly count, but KSUS has parallel runways and the tower is closed between 2300-0600 local.
edit: I cheated/used google-fu. KRCE has them.
Sulphur Springs TX (KSLR) where the American Legend Aircraft Company is based has a Grass Strip next to the paved runway, not tower.
It is very cool to land from the north because the end of the runways are on a small lake.
\__[Ô]__/;1421433 said:I was preparing a presentation for a ground school class and wanted to mention parallel runways. It occurred to me that I didn't know of any non-towered airports with parallel runways.
So no real reason, I just wanted to know if there were any airports with parallel runways but no tower. It seems the parallel runways lose a lot of value without a 3rd party making sure the runways are used efficiently.
To coordinate things in a complex environment, we just talk it through over the radio.
During World War II, the airport was designated as New Jerusalem Auxiliary Airfield (No 2), and was an auxiliary training airfield for Stockton Army Airfield, California.