Runway and taxi way markings and lighting has also improved immensely over the years but when when in doubt I will stop and ask for help in an unfamiliar environment. I appreciate the video's.
If you haven't already, this should be done for an airport like KDVT (Deer Valley/Phoenix, AZ) and/or KFFZ (Falcon Field, Mesa, AZ). Dual tower frequencies, contacting tower/ground for transfers from north/south runways, etc. becomes a nightmare for unfamiliar pilots, even experienced pilots unfamiliar with the airfields and operations. Also not sure why taxiways are not better demarcated vs. runways. I have seen aircraft lining up for the taxiway I just taxied onto, and have seen in the air, for newly paved taxiways, how deceiving it can be at certain airfields' runways & taxiway configurations while in the air.
Thanks for the great suggestions Doug! We have From the Flight Deck videos for those airports, feel free to check them out in our playlist or here DVT: ua-cam.com/video/2xYS3Zyn3uA/v-deo.html and FFZ: ua-cam.com/video/_tRIShTBZzk/v-deo.html
This video is not knowledgeable in regard to this airport. The calm wind (and instrument approaches) runways are the other end, 16R, L...and are not confusing. The challenges are the casinos which are in the approach for 16L. The surrounding mountains on both sides of the valley, and the constant cross-winds and wake turbulence issues make a bigger mess than landing on the less common 34R, L. Occasionally you will be asked to suddenly land on 7/25. But very rarely...the approach from the 25 end is treacherous as you have to bank on the East mountains to get aligned. Also, KRNO has been undergoing a lot of runway closures due to construction over the last couple of years. This has created danger due to all traffic forced to share a single runway. Esp when commercial traffic is forced onto 16L, the shorter runway and has to taxi much further to get to the passenger terminal.
While you are correct that the calm wind runways are 17L/R (16L/R at the time of the making of this video), the main purpose of this video is to educate pilots so as to reduce the occurrence of wrong surface landings. Wrong surface landings occur mostly on the 35s (34s at the time of the making of this videos) for the reasons outlined in this video. So I have to politely disagree by saying that this video is very accurate at depicting the most common issues here at RNO.
The work that goes into these is really impressive. Hugely helpful - thank you, FAA
So well done. I sincerely appreciate the effort that goes into these. Thank you
Runway and taxi way markings and lighting has also improved immensely over the years but when when in doubt I will stop and ask for help in an unfamiliar environment. I appreciate the video's.
Excellent and helpful overview!
Great video by the federal aviation administration 🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫🛫👏
If you haven't already, this should be done for an airport like KDVT (Deer Valley/Phoenix, AZ) and/or KFFZ (Falcon Field, Mesa, AZ). Dual tower frequencies, contacting tower/ground for transfers from north/south runways, etc. becomes a nightmare for unfamiliar pilots, even experienced pilots unfamiliar with the airfields and operations. Also not sure why taxiways are not better demarcated vs. runways. I have seen aircraft lining up for the taxiway I just taxied onto, and have seen in the air, for newly paved taxiways, how deceiving it can be at certain airfields' runways & taxiway configurations while in the air.
Thanks for the great suggestions Doug! We have From the Flight Deck videos for those airports, feel free to check them out in our playlist or here DVT: ua-cam.com/video/2xYS3Zyn3uA/v-deo.html and FFZ: ua-cam.com/video/_tRIShTBZzk/v-deo.html
This video is not knowledgeable in regard to this airport. The calm wind (and instrument approaches) runways are the other end, 16R, L...and are not confusing. The challenges are the casinos which are in the approach for 16L. The surrounding mountains on both sides of the valley, and the constant cross-winds and wake turbulence issues make a bigger mess than landing on the less common 34R, L. Occasionally you will be asked to suddenly land on 7/25. But very rarely...the approach from the 25 end is treacherous as you have to bank on the East mountains to get aligned. Also, KRNO has been undergoing a lot of runway closures due to construction over the last couple of years. This has created danger due to all traffic forced to share a single runway. Esp when commercial traffic is forced onto 16L, the shorter runway and has to taxi much further to get to the passenger terminal.
While you are correct that the calm wind runways are 17L/R (16L/R at the time of the making of this video), the main purpose of this video is to educate pilots so as to reduce the occurrence of wrong surface landings. Wrong surface landings occur mostly on the 35s (34s at the time of the making of this videos) for the reasons outlined in this video. So I have to politely disagree by saying that this video is very accurate at depicting the most common issues here at RNO.