1 favour please, make me rich =)

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beerbadger First Officer
Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 346
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:12 pm

May i ask you for a picture from google earth showing 2 planes using both runways at EGLL (heathrow) as ive made a bet with my science teacher, him saying that they only use 1 runnway for takeoff and landings.

Thanks guys! 🙂

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Michael Thomas (SteveT) Chief Captain
Joined: Feb 27, 2005 Posts: 1112
Answered
Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:36 pm

How much did you bet?

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CrashGordon Chief Captain
Joined: Jun 20, 2005 Posts: 3821
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:46 pm

And what is our percentage of the winnings? 😂

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hms_endeavour Chief Captain
Joined: Nov 03, 2004 Posts: 1351 Location: In the sky
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:20 pm

I think he's right...I can't find anythinng on google earth, they all use one rnwy,but don't touch the other.Same on google maps.

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pilotwannabe Chief Captain
Joined: Mar 15, 2006 Posts: 1719 Location: A galaxy far far away
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Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:25 pm

Heathrow will always use one runway for landings and the parrell one for take-off's. It alters every now and then to minimise the affect on local communities.

Come on guys....65 million passengers a year using one runway??

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Nick (-Jester-) First Officer
Joined: Sep 07, 2004 Posts: 201 Location: Pennsylvania
Answered
Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:07 pm

maybe?.....99's plane

http://us.airliners.net/photos/middle/7/0/9/1119907.jpg

cant tell if it is on the rwy or taxiiway
http://us.airliners.net/photos/middle/5/3/8/1116835.jpg

This one might be it. Look (enlarge it) Two jets taxiing to the rwy one on the left and one on the right

http://us.airliners.net/photos/photos/1/5/2/1110251.jpg

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Jonathan (99jolegg) Chief Captain
Joined: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 4112 Location: UK
Answered
Sat Oct 07, 2006 1:08 am

...and they use the third runway for very strong crosswinds. 😉

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beerbadger First Officer
Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 346
Answered
Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:16 pm

CrashGordon wrote:

And what is our percentage of the winnings? 😂

My love 😛

I need to it to have somthing that makes it official so he belives me 🙄

its me liam Guest
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Sun Oct 08, 2006 7:37 am

could some one edit the picture i know its cheating but oh well as long as you win 😂 😉 🙄 ❗

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cheechm First Officer
Joined: Apr 26, 2006 Posts: 233 Location: My Home, London, United Kingdom
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Sun Oct 08, 2006 11:18 am

Does this help:

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/programmes/the_day_britain_stopped/missed_approach/img/1_400.gif&imgrefurl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/programmes/the_day_britain_stopped/missed_approach/html/default.stm&h=300&w=400&sz=11&hl=en&start=15&tbnid=5Bi3EaazPRvLoM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dheathrow%2Brunways%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG

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