Runway Markings Explained
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2016
- This video looks at and explains the most common runway markings that you will see on a paved runway, aimed at helping new pilots and flight simmers improve their understanding of an airport.
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There's another, fairly important marking: the giant X, meaning "this runway is closed". Even if it's an emergency landing, this information is vital to stop you running into a row of parked cars. Or Jeremy Clarkson.
Yeah that's a fair point, I completely forgot about closed runways when I did this video, just about remembered it for Taxiways!
Adrian Colley KTCL will use a lighted "X" for it's 11/29 runway when it's used for parking on heavy college football weekends & as a display area when the Blue Angels are in town
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Or a runway a corrupt mayor got his hands on and destroyed. RIP Meigs.
I mostly land in corn fields, so this is educational.
rofl....
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@@MalaysianAviator737-8 - Sailplaning.
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Thanks for the explanations. I'm not a pilot, but you never know when any bit of information can be useful.
Little bit of trivia next time you're at an airport ;)
Never pass up a chance to say 'Well ... actually ...' :-)
I'm glad you showed up in my recommended, good job YT algorithms!
Me too, channel has exploded the past couple of days! haha
Glad to hear! I love watching informative videos and documentaries. It was great to learn more about every-day things that we see but don't understand. Thank You for sharing.
It also showed up in my recommendations :)
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My bedtime was an hour ago, how did I even end up here?
every time you start watching youtube haha
nentihaiudittu same here new information to learn everyday
Story of my life
i have few tests tomorrow, i wanted to study, now I should be in bed, i didn´t do anything, i just ended up here.
I just began playing MFS2020 and this has made my life 10x easier.
I never searched anything on youtube referring this topic. But I had my phone laying around on the table while I had a conversation about air traffic controllers and what they had to do etc. And 10 minutes later this video "coincidentally" pops up. These things happen very often and I somehow have the feeling that my phone filters keywords and adjusts the interests of connected websites. Did someone else ever had these experiences, too?^^
Possibly, I know certain adverts work that way. For example if you're searching the internet for Nike shoes, you'll start seeing adverts for Nike. And Google owns UA-cam....
What kind of phone do you have?
Eric W.
HTC One
Braindamage ok so it's Android. I'm pretty sure Google does use input from your keyboard for targeted advertising so maybe that's why.
Eric W.
Nah, I didn't write anything^^ Just talked about it.
I usually like landing on freeways full of cars and light poles , they slow down the plane real quick! & sometimes the plane brakes apart allows the best way for the passengers to get out.
Said the Diesel Smoker's brain.
Great video, some additional information. Runways that have more than 3 parallel runways will go up or down 1 digit of the compass. Example: LAX, coming in from the ocean on the left runways are numbered 6L & 6R. On the right side is 7L & 7R.
This was very informative. Thank you for this video!
You're welcome! :)
This is the first time I've ever seen anybody explain this. I've done a lot of flying but I didn't know any of this. Thank you so much!!
Glad my video could help! :)
Now this is right up my alley. I worked in airfield management for 4 years in the Air Force.
In the us, the international airports have the centerline, thresh hold markers, and runway numbers(of course) then it is the triple bar lines, the 2 single bars, and then the double lines to indicate the touchdown zone. Followed by that is the single bar line.
This is great! I just checked and at Laguardia they have 2 runways at right-angles to each other. Each end is labelled: 4,13,22 and 31 - cool.
Thanks so much for this video! I always wondered what these markings were all about as they seemed random to me. Now I know better. :)
Thank you very much. We stay tuned for the next ones.
Straight to the point and not drawn out. Thanks
@3:48 ~ Just FYI, one bite you didn’t mention is more specifically about the overrun area of a runway. Most, if not all large airports, have specifically designed concrete that crumbles and sinks the airplane into the crumbling concrete to bring the airplane to a stop before the airplane crashes into whatever is beyond the runway.
hollow hollow~ :) i'm really appreciate with your video. i'm student pilot from south korea. i didn't know well about Runway light and marking system. but after i saw your video, i understand thous thing all. really thank you sir! and keep your video upload
I'm glad my video could help! Best of luck for your study! Hope you get your pilot's licence soon :)
I really enjoy learning this sort of stuff. Thanks for posting the video
I loved this mate.. Thanks for documenting this. Air roads have been one of my biggest wonder out of all the enjoyment so have of aviation stuff
Glad I could help :)
"if there are three runways, you have L, R and C for center"
Not always true. In SJC (San Jose), there WAS 30L, 30R, and ..... runway 29. Why? Because 30L and 30R are heavy jet runways, and 29 was a general aviation (light airplane) runway. They felt it dangerous to label them 30L, 30C and 30R because a heavy jet confusing 30L with a usable runway would cause a horrific accident, since 29 (what would have been 30L) was far too short to land a heavy jet.
So what they did is round up to 30L and 30R, then round DOWN to get 29.
Of course, its a moot point now. SJC has been trying to get general aviation OUT of the airport for years, and the latest move is to get rid of our (ahem) runway. So 29 no longer exists.
I'm sure there are other examples of runways labeled like this.
But the point is that it would be labeled in the mentioned way if it wasn't for that.
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At Kuala Lumpur International (KUL/WMKK) there are 3 parallel runways, 32R/14L, 32L/14R and 33/15. All runways are pretty much the same length and width. Although KUL originally had only 32R/14L and 32L/14R and later expanded with 33/15 and a new terminal.
Great! Now I know little bit more about runways) Thank you!
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Great video. Informative. Now to watch your next one on lights.
I really enjoy videos that help me understand things like this thank you!
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it :)
The explanation is very clear, thanks very much!
Excellent presentation. One thing to note is that runway numbers will occasionally change because of changes in Earth's magnetic variation. For example, when I started flying many moons ago, the runway at my airport was labeled 14/32. A few years ago, it changed to 15/33.
This was explained so well!
also a ton of skid marks mean you should touch down
Elijah Stewart those of marks of rubber from aircraft touching down and are not painted on
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BCT_Planespotter 2 years late but No shit Sherlock
Information has entered my head.
Good explanation mate... well done.
Very informative! Wonderful video, thanks for sharing!
Awesome video! Nice and short, yet very informative!
Glad you liked it, thanks very much for watching! :)
Just for your curiosity: If there are 4 parallel runways (which doesn't probably happen these days), you can push the number by 1. So you would have runway 09L, 09C, 09R, 10, and all of them would be parallel ;)
I was going to say the same thing. Although if he's based in the UK do they have any commercial airports with four runways? Seems like they usually stop at one or two max. ;-)
+CAHSR2020 I haven't met anything like that in Europe. Even there are some airports with plenty of runways, almost always they are in different direction, just to have bigger spectre of available directions for operations (easier to adjust to current winds). Frankfurt has 3 parallels, and the rest I know has only 2 parallels. Heathrow wants to build 3rd one, but not sure if it's gonna be parallel as well.
Just to be clear, I said UK not EU. Heathrow will get another runway when hell freezes over.
wasn't the decision made that they will add a 3rd runway?
The decision was made decades ago. And then they revisit the decision again and again every few years or so. Still no runway.
Thanks much ! Been flying fsx since it was Sublogic on C64 but didn't bother to check what markings were for. Keep em ccmin!
Will do, glad you liked it!
Interesting! I've been a flight sim buff for... Geez, decades now, and never caught on to a lot of this stuff. I figure if the gear is down and I stop before the end, I'm good enough :) Thanx for posting
Well that does count as a successful landing! :)
Doofer911 Yes it does, in flight sim world a sign on the grass at each end of the runway that says "Don't Land Here!" is good enough, they like to make things complicated in the real world just for fun. It's probably because of the lawyers.
Thanks - useful information. Hope the congestion clears up.
Cheers
That was an awesome information I needed this I subbed :)
Excellent once more thanks!
Subscribed! Very informational, and very professionally done. Impressed.
Welcome to the channel, glad you liked the video :)
GREAT VIDEO!
Very good video, god explanations, learned a lot of things cheers!
Great video!
Great idea, thanks for the info.
what does the markings on the side of the runway for on some airports for example: minneapolis intl. theres like slanted yellow lines on the side of the runway
Great video. Very informative. Thanks
You're welcome :)
This is pretty cool!
Very well explained. Thank you
Thanks for watching, glad you liked the video :)
Thank you. It is nice to have such teacher like you ;-) . Wait for the next. Have a nice week.
You're too kind :)
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Yes Marika ?!
This is so cool!
That was VERy interesting! Well done!
Glad you liked it!
You're wrong about the Blash pad/ Overrun area. Those are used to give instant acceleration to planes on takeoff. (see similar approach used in video games)
Of course! I remember seeing them in TrackMania!
Great Vid!
You just got your self a subscriber. This was a brilliant video. Keep it up
Welcome to the channel, glad my videos could help :)
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Very Short but very informative, nice video
Glad you liked it, thanks for watching :)
amazing video
Very interesting, thank you!
Thanks for this video 👍🏻
You're welcome, glad you liked it! :)
Just happened to be shown in my feed, very interesting.......
I encourage all pilots to watch this video! Great information here than can save lives!
Im pretty sure that pilots are aware of this information
Negativbeispiel Lol it would be pretty disturbing if one single pilot wouldn't know this information indeed.
vanhouten64 Even for the least demanding pilot's licence there is. (varies by country, but it's typically a recreational aviation or sports pilot certificate), you still have a massive book of theory, all of which you are expected to know. (My copy of the BAK - Basic Aeronautical Knowledge is about 400 pages long, and there's a seperate 300 page lesson plan book and 100+ page radio operations book. The combined sum of what you learn from this, alongside the theory tests and practical lessons is only enough to allow you to fly a single engine, fixed prop aircraft with fixed landing gear during good weather and visibility and only in the daytime, plus, only at airports and in airspace that do not have any air traffic control in use, plus, you aren't even allowed to do crosscountry navigation with this level of knowledge. Only fly within about 100 miles of your home airport, and land the same place you took off from.).
Not all runway markings mentioned are covered, but the basic most important ones are. Which specific markings they teach you is of course related to the country in which you learnt to fly. (presumably international pilots are expected to learn the significance of the variations too.)
Runway lights aren't and guidance equipment isn't really covered, because that's night and/or instrument flying, which constitutes a seperate subject with seperate endorsements that require extra training and licensing...
I'm a pilot for virgin Atlantic (a380 pilot) I still watch these types of videos because they are very useful.
Very interesting & informative. Thanks
You're welcome :)
thank you very much for this vid!
You're welcome :)
Dear Doofer911. Love your work. May I suggest a visit to an ENT specialist?
Thank you!
I love stuff like this. I have subscribed. Anyone know of a good video that describes what all the equipment at the side of the motorway is for? So many cameras and sensors, I'd love to know what they all did.
What about the soft concrete that is at the ends of runways to stop runaway jets. Its like a really brittle conrete that you or i could walk om but the weight of the plane cuases it to crumble
Great vid!
Glad you liked it! :)
Thanks for posting.
Hope your cold will be over next week !… ;))
Very informative, thanks
You're welcome :)
Thanks to you and UA-cam I've learned so much compared to the old days where I was trying to figure out what the hell is "ILS" lol....
Yeah I remember those days! haha, thankfully it's easier to find answers to many questions nowadays.
are you a pilot now?
@@sidv4615 haha... I am a pilot in flight simulator. 🤣
The first vid i saw...very good. As german i could easily follow your english explanations.
Hey Michael, thanks for letting me know. One of my goals was to make the videos easy for non-English viewers :)
Great!!!!
Nice video
Liked and subscribed. thanks!
finally explained! thank you very much and greetings from YUL
You're welcome :) Always happy to hear from people across the pond!
Greeting from their neighbor @ YQB
Uk uses the rectangular boxes as well for touch down markings & they use sets of boxes, the thick boxes mark the middle of the touch down area. Look on Google maps if you don't believe me.
LTN, STN, LCY,SOU use the 1st system you mention. LHR,LGW,MAN,BHX,BRS all use the THICK box to mark the centre touchdown point.
So where should the model turn and pose showing the outfit?
Threshold, definitely! Preferably with the lights on!
Lovely Video.
I have Liked and Subscribed.
Welcome to the channel, thanks for watching :D
how does exactly blast pad prevents the damage from jet cyclone or jet blast
It prevents the earth at the end of the runway being eroded. If that earth at the end of the runway starts being blasted away, then the end of the runway could begin to sag or collapse.
I'll also add a little bit to this good video: center line stripes are 120 feet long, with 80 feet between them. Just another way for pilots to determine their visibility.
This helped alot
I'm glad, thanks for watching :)
excellent
Do you have a video that explains how to figure out the opposite end of the runway? Like 12/30? Thanks.
Afraid not, usually you take the Runway Heading and either add or subtract 180 to get the reciprocal (aka opposite) end.
Thanks I know what the meaning of a runway is now
Dear sir, can you make video how to setup virtual environment to practice flying plan. Please reply me
Very informative in informing me about markings, our flight teacher told us how to fly and gave us a course to fly on a simulator but didnt tell us what the markings mean -.-
+TheDark101Knight doh! Well now you know :)
Hey Doofer, the blast pads you mention at the end are actually called "stopways" both in ICAO Annex 14 and in EASA CS-ADR-DSN documents. Their purpose is to provide more length to stop an aircraft in the event of an abandoned takeoff - so actually they should be as strong as the runway to not to cause any damage to the aircraft. In reality, they are designed to withstand at least a certain number of loadings of the aeroplane which the stopway is intended to serve. Also, there shouldn't be any ground equipment this close to the runway to be protected by it - the closest structure should be the ILS LOC at the and of the RESA. All the other subjects of the video are correct. Great and informative video.
Ah thanks for letting me know, I was simply going with information from Wikipedia, someone should add "Stopways" to that article!
I just had a look in FAA Airport Design documents too, and they do mention blast pads, with the same purpose you tell in the video. It also cleary states that "A blast pad is not a stopway.", but has the same yellow chevron marking. So perhaps it's more common in the USA. I haven't encountered it in EASA stuff yet (to which we have to be compliant in Europe). I guess we both learned something new :)
are the runway headings the headings if i would be facing away from the center of the runway, or facing towards the center?
Facing towards the centre.
Doofer911 so the number on the runway tells the way the opposite way is pointing?
Isn't the glide slope antenna array sometimes at the base of the runway?
I want to remember that in the Boeing that had an engine failure immediately before landing at London Heathrow, the crew were worried about crashing into the antennas short of the runway, as well as the lighting fixtures before the runway due to their suddenly more acute descent and the fact they thought they'd never reach the runway at all. Which they kind of did but still not.
The ILS Localiser antenna arrays are at the ends of the runway. The Glideslope sits in line with the touchdown markers. And that BA 777 that crashed, they were worried about landing on top of houses, don't think the Captain gave a damn about damaging airport equipment, just getting the plane down in a relatively flat, safe area was the goal lol.
There's a video on that incident, and yes, they were afraid that the antennas would puncture the fuel tanks making the landing unsurvivable. And thanks you.
Thought when I clicked this video that I'd know most of it. Which I sort of did, but didn't know about the US dropping an initial 0, the different aim point in the UK, nor the amont of bars giving the width.
thank you for this beneficial video but It would be great if you can give me FAR/AIM or any other offical reference that I can take a look,cause I have been searching true reference about runway lightning,markings and sings system but I couldn't.Thanks in advance!
I have a doubt. Do we always need to land "on" the touchdown zone or before the touchdown zone?
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Who has two thumbs, was 16, landed before the displaced threshold, and got in trouble by the FAA official at the airport, this guy.
I hope they were gentle!
I was getting a talking to when a local plane used for skydiving (divers away as I was taxiing) came in and landed before where I landed. He (FAA rep) looked at me and said have a nice day.
Helpful
Lovely thanks very much. Did you use a sound editor for hiss/noise reduction on your voice over? That gives a "blocked nose" effect
Yeah I run it through a slight reduction however I think that's just how I naturally sound.
The Blast Pad/Overrun Area can contain an EMAS (Engineered material arresting system)
The two lines are the aim points. But the white box(3 boxes) is the touchdown zone, were the wheels should make contact with the rwy.
If i remember correctly you can still Take off from the chevron area but you cannot land due to PCN being higher than ACN.
What happens if you have 4 or more parallel rwys? Well, for this example if you have 4 rwys on a easterly heading. Then one will be called 09L and one 09R, and the other two who's also on easterly heading will be named 08L and 08R. There can only be 3 rwys with the same number. (09L, 09C and 09R)
Is the blast pad also an indicator that this airport can accommodate jet traffic?
Not necessarily, but most airports which have runways with Blast Pads are probably large enough to accommodate jets anyway.
Thanks-!!
This was a really good and informative video, but I gotta ask you mate. Do you have a cold? You sound like your nose is stuffed!
Yeah I think I did at the time I made the video :(
Somehow that sounds a bit... ya know. Rubway, Rub... Eggs...