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Flairport From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Posted (10 years 1 month 1 week 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 906 times:

what do airports do when the wind changes and they have to switch the runways?

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Flyingbronco05 From United States of America, joined May 2002, 3838 posts, RR: 3
Reply 1, posted (10 years 1 month 1 week 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 886 times:

They have planes circle until a determined plane has landed and cleared the runway. Then they start a new line up and start the landing process over again.

FB05

Never Trust Your Fuel Gauge

Flairport From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 2, posted (10 years 1 month 1 week 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 873 times:

what about for take off

ConcordeBoy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 3, posted (10 years 1 month 1 week 5 days 4 hours ago) and read 847 times:

I can attest for at least Concorde...

have been sitting on/or in line for the threshold when we were suddenly turned around and rolled to the opposite end due to wind change at CDG.

Sushka From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 4784 posts, RR: 16
Reply 4, posted (10 years 1 month 1 week 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 816 times:

The flow of planes simply changes runways when the winds changes.

Pershoyu Spravoyu Litaki!

Viflyer From US Virgin Islands, joined May 1999, 493 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (10 years 1 month 1 week 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 809 times:

At ORD if your inbound and in the air ATC either slow you down, put you in a hold, and/or give you radar vectors to slow down the arrivals which they switch runways. If your inbound and on the ground usually your given a specific takeoff time (aka. wheels up time) by ATC, which if it's short (less than 45 min and delays due to the wind shifting are usually short, 5-15 min) and your still at the gate most crews opt to board and wait for the time to expire at the end of the runway. If it's long (more than 1 hour or so) most tend to hold off boarding until some time expires.

As for outbound the just have the aircraft on the ground taxi to the new runway they're using. It's suppose to be in order but I've done flights where we lucked out because we were at the end of the line and when they switched runway, since we were the closest to the new runway we got out before everyone else.

I reject your reality and subsitute my own

Positive rate From Australia, joined Sep 2001, 2143 posts, RR: 1
Reply 6, posted (10 years 1 month 1 week 5 days ago) and read 795 times:

This happened just this morning at my local airport. There were 5 jets inbound on a STAR for runway 23- 2 QF 737's, 2 DJ 737's and a CX 747-400. The DJ 737 took the 4 kt tailwind component and landed on 23, whilst the other 4 were vectored around for RWY 05 overflying my house in the process.

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