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Airliners rule From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 7 hours ago) and read 1049 times:

how are runways numbered?

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Mjzair From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 386 posts, RR: 1
Reply 1, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 6 hours ago) and read 910 times:

Runways are numbered according to their magnetic heading... for example, runway 27 will normally be facing due west at a heading of between 270-279..
The first two numbers of the heading are used...
There are some exceptions to this rule... I beleive San Deigo's Lindburgh Field is an example, but I am not sure of the specifics on that...

As to designations of Left Right or Center, these are used for parallel runways.. the rest should be obvious on that count..

The other exception to the rule would be in a place like Atlanta or Dallas where there are four parallel runways, in this case two of the runways are given designations of the actual heading and the other two parallels are given either the next hight or lower number..

I hope this helps and was acurate..

Mjzair From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 386 posts, RR: 1
Reply 2, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 6 hours ago) and read 899 times:

Runways are numbered according to their magnetic heading... for example, runway 27 will normally be facing due west at a heading of between 270-279..
The first two numbers of the heading are used...
There are some exceptions to this rule... I beleive San Deigo's Lindburgh Field is an example, but I am not sure of the specifics on that...

As to designations of Left Right or Center, these are used for parallel runways.. the rest should be obvious on that count..

The other exception to the rule would be in a place like Atlanta or Dallas where there are four parallel runways, in this case two of the runways are given designations of the actual heading and the other two parallels are given either the next higher or lower number..

I hope this helps and was acurate..

Mjzair From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 386 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 6 hours ago) and read 890 times:

Runways are numbered according to their magnetic heading... for example, runway 27 will normally be facing due west at a heading of between 270-279..
The first two numbers of the heading are used...
There are some exceptions to this rule... I beleive San Deigo's Lindburgh Field is an example, but I am not sure of the specifics on that...

As to designations of Left Right or Center, these are used for parallel runways.. the rest should be obvious on that count..

The other exception to the rule would be in a place like Atlanta or Dallas where there are four parallel runways, in this case two of the runways are given designations of the actual heading and the other two parallels are given either the next higher or lower number..

I hope this helps and was acurate..

Fuelman From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 6 hours ago) and read 896 times:

Actually, for a runway 27-it's not between 270 and 279, it's between 265 and 274. If it were 275-279 you would round to 280.

Rotate777 From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 400 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 6 hours ago) and read 895 times:

And one more thing to add. If say, there was a Runway 13, the other end of the runway would be Runway 31. It's just the same, only the other way around.

Rotate777

Airliners rule From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 6, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 4 hours ago) and read 889 times:

OK thanks but what direction would a runway have to be facing to be runway 00

KLM672 From United States of America, joined Oct 1999, 2219 posts, RR: 4
Reply 7, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 4 hours ago) and read 886 times:

Runways are numbered according to their magnetic heading... for example, runway 27 will normally be facing due west at a heading of between 270-279..
The first two numbers of the heading are used...
There are some exceptions to this rule... I beleive San Deigo's Lindburgh Field is an example, but I am not sure of the specifics on that...

As to designations of Left Right or Center, these are used for parallel runways.. the rest should be obvious on that count..

The other exception to the rule would be in a place like Atlanta or Dallas where there are four parallel runways, in this case two of the runways are given designations of the actual heading and the other two parallels are given either the next higher or lower number..

I hope this helps and was acurate..

BigGiraffe From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 257 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 4 hours ago) and read 883 times:

Since runways are labled according to magnetic heading, the same runway in the opposite direction is either 18 more or 18 less, as long as the number stays between 01 and 36. The runway opposite of 18 (180) is 36 (360 degrees).

B727-200 From Australia, joined Nov 1999, 1051 posts, RR: 3
Reply 9, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week ago) and read 872 times:

OK, here is a curly one. Does the runway number on an aircraft carrier change when it takes a different heading?

B727-200.

Agrodemm From Greece, joined Apr 2000, 401 posts, RR: 0
Reply 10, posted (12 years 1 month 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 878 times:

Aircraft Carriers (CV's or CVN's) have also a unique number. (eg. CVN-68 Nimitz)
The Runway number for every aircraft carrier is the same with their ID (I don't know how they call it) number, hence for the NInmitz is 68.

FlyingV From Ireland, joined Apr 2000, 11 posts, RR: 0
Reply 11, posted (12 years 1 month 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 858 times:

Rwy 00 would face north. However it is referred to as Rwy 36 (0 or 360 degrees - still due north)

V.

Qantas747 From Australia, joined Mar 2000, 205 posts, RR: 0
Reply 12, posted (12 years 1 month 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 835 times:

Runway Numbers are numbered by the degrees they face.
The first 2 digits are the rumway numbers.
QANTAS747

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