Strange runway in Birmingham

[sladys]

Take a look at runway 15 and 33. You need a good skill of being a pilot to land on this runway and approach runway 06. It turn right if you land on 15 and left on 33. :hair: :lol:

[steffen_bn]

Take a look at runway 15 and 33. You need a good skill of being a pilot to land on this runway and approach runway 06. It turn right if you land on 15 and left on 33. :hair: :lol:

slady, det er ikke runway'en der drejer, det er fordi den er bakket, altså det går lidt op og ned..

Sry for my reply in danish couldn't find out how to say in english!!

Best Regards

Steffen!!


EDIT: Quote from aircraft illustrated...

Runway 15/33 - also know as the Brum roller coaster runway, because of its many dips and bumps

[kokoro]

There's like almost 50 foot range in altitude in those runways!!!! :shock:

[Captain Hornblower]

Sry for my reply in danish couldn't find out how to say in english!!
Feel free to try it...

[Highlander739]

You'll need pretty good brakes landing on 06

[Mickey Blue]

As a plane lands the two runways (15&33) will act as one, so the plane can use the full stretch. The image does look a little wonky though - like a ramp of sorts. :)

Runway 6 does look short lol - I bet a first timer to the airport would panic landing the plane there! Obviously not realising they got bored and fancied a different coloured tarmac half way! :)

[old shape]

As a plane lands the two runways (15&33) will act as one, so the plane can use the full stretch. The image does look a little wonky though - like a ramp of sorts. :)

Runway 6 does look short lol - I bet a first timer to the airport would panic landing the plane there! Obviously not realising they got bored and fancied a different coloured tarmac half way! :)

There's a 146 just rolling down 06 now. It'll be off by just after the half way mark.
You do of course know that the runway numbering is just the angle you are facing as you land, to the nearest 10 degrees. They drop the zero off the end, so 26 is 260 degrees.