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On a flight I had another plane flying and then landing parallel to mine (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

CLT, Charlotte-Douglas International in North Carolina, is a Class B airfield, in layman's terms it has the most severe air traffic control it can get. It's a whole other level above Raleigh-Durham or Piedmont-Triad. Huh, I've been flying in North Carolina since 2001 and I just now realized that all of our airports are hyphenated.

Charlotte-Douglas has four runways, three of them parallel. The airline terminal, cargo terminal and a few other major facilities sit between runways 36C and 36R, on either side of runway 5. A few other facilities including the general aviation ramp and the Air National Guard ramp sit on the East side of the field off of 36R. 36L is kind of way off to the West. I don't know at a glance of the airport diagram if they can do simultaneous approaches to all three runways but I have to imagine they can do simultaneous approaches to the outer two.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait what? Is KCLT the only bravo in NC????

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yep. RDU, GSO, FAY, whatever Asheville is are all Charlie, and Wilmington is a class D with a TRSA around it because the coast hasn't joined us in the 21st century.