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New runway at KCLE
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Hopkins:
For all the interested KCLE listeners, Cleveland's new 9,000 foot runway (6L/24R) opened today.
Techincally, it had already opened once at 6800 feet. They then closed it later to finish off the remaining 2200 feet.
Here's a news article about it:
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/109169844570723.xml
and here's the new taxi diagram:
http://download.aopa.org/iap/20040805/airport_diagrams/00084AD.PDF
The remainder of the expansion project includes (I believe) extending the old long runway (6R/24L) to 11,000 feet. Runway 6C/24C is supposed to be converted to a taxiway.
What I find kind of interesting is all that extra room at the end of 6L. :shock: The runway used to go just past 10/28, but now it's clearly not supposed to be used. I wonder if it will also turn into a taxiway? Or if it's there for future expansion? Did they leave it closed so they could operate on 10/28 simultaneously with 6L? If anyone reading this knows, fill me in! :)
IndyTower:
I don't know a whole lot about how ATC at CLE operates, but I would guess that the taxiway may have been taken out there so 24R and 24C would be staggered enough to conduct simultanious approaches to those runways. I doubt it would be taken out just so 28/10 could be used, as they could either depart from a taxiway for 24R or land and hold short 6L with the runway crossing 10/28/. However, with using 10/28 and the new runway and a parallel, that would increase the AAR I would imagine. Just my 2 cents...maybe someone more familiar with CLE can shed some more light.
Hopkins:
Those are good thoughts. In the long term, 6C/24C is going to be turned into a taxiway; based on that, I don't think they were planning on having simultaneous ops for 6L/24R & 6C/24C. However, it is possible in the short term -- since they're going to be extending 6R/24L, they'll probably have to close it for at least some period of time, during which they'll probably use 6C/24C and 6L/24R.
During busy periods in the past (before 6L/24R), they have used 6C, 6R, and 10 simultaneously (6R was LAHSO 10).
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