On Friday 18 Dec 2009, John Denker wrote: > On 12/18/2009 12:30 PM, leee wrote: > > I live beneath the turn-in point for clockwise approaches on 05 > > at Stanstead Airport (EGSS) > > I assume that was supposed to say runway 04 at Stansted. > ^^ ^^^^^^^^
Just reporting the number that's painted on it. > > > and most airliners, up to 747s and MD-11s, > > are lined up on the glideslope by about 7.5 nm out from the > > threshold. > > Turn point? Lined up? Pretty obvious, I thought, unless you really want to be pernickty, but you'll have to be pernickty on your own. Unlike you, I'm not trying to make any particular point or criticise anyone... > > I thought the topic of this thread was GS range. > GS is not the same as LOC. Anecdotes about "turning" > or "lining up" don't tell us much about the GS. ...I'm just offering observational data from real life. Funnily enough, I did so because I thought it might be of help. You just seem to be trying to get your kicks from belittling people though. Hmm... your problem, not mine. LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
