The worst thing is realising you've ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and can't fix it because you have too many flights coming in and your whole airport descends into chaos lol.
#SIMAIRPORT RUNWAY LIGHTS FULL#
My advice to anyone trying to expand - don't add a full days worth of flights all in 1 go to your new gate - add 1 flight to your new gate to your second block of flights (ie your first block is G1: 4am-6am / G2: 5am-7am, your second block is G1: 7am-9am / G2: 8am-10am so add your 1 flight out of your new gate at either 7.30am or 8.30am) first to see how your airport handles things when it has people already in it. I am going to expand up to 4 gates / 1 runway tonight once I have the proper infrastructure in place and see how my setup does. This is using 4 gate desks (1 dedicated to first class) with 15 square long queues per desk.Īdmittedly this is on my new airport (only running 2 Large Gates atm) with 1hr between flights at each gate and 4 lanes of security / 6 ticket desks and a crap load of kiosks so my Pax don't have far to travel and I don't have any bottlenecks yet. So you should not need so many runways in your airport.Īt the moment on my latest experiment, I can turn around 250 Pax on a full 767 in under 75 minutes. 1 or 2 for landing, 1 or 2 for take offs. The biggest airports have just 5-6 runways with one or two being a backup in some emergency situations. And once I tried I will share my experience here.Īlso think of real life. I havent tried but I will definetly try to make at least 25-30 flights with just one runway. So it is really difficult to squeeze them in. You should guess/calculate the boarding time to make this work). But timing of departures is not shown at the daily shedule (It shows the gate opening time for the flight. And you can technically try putting 48 flights with just one runway. So if you consider one plane lands and takes of it takes 30 mins. The departure end is marked by red lights delineating the end of operational pavement. The ends, or thresholds, of the runways have green lights at the beginning of the runway, or approach end. Take offs just wait for the new coming planes. Runway edge lights are white, transitioning to amber near the departure end of the runway. Generally 15 min time interval is enough for a new landing (Speaking of game time). So I think I can put another XL gate and maybe 3 more big flights without any problems. There is also some good time frames for new flights. This international consistency enhances the safety of our commercial airline industry, which transports nearly 1.5 billion people annually around the world.I have 2 large and 1 XL gates with 1 runway. Heathrow, JFK, Hong Kong-the color, placement, and configuration of runway lights are universal at all airports. They help the pilot approach the ground correctly by choosing normal glide path angles if two lights are white and two are red, the plane is approaching at the right angle. These lights are typically used in conjunction with approach light systems, which extend beyond the runway ends, providing a visual queue for the pilots to line-up the aircraft during approach. Four lighting units, each of which can produce either white or red light signals, are the type of airfield lights, usually located on the left side of the runway. Recessed in-pavement runway lights, also white in color, are common at most large airports to provide enhanced runway visibility.For SimAirport, I don't know what the benefit of having PAPIs installed - I have never seen a plane crash, or be delayed because of missing. The departure end is marked by red lights delineating the end of operational pavement. In the real world, you need a minimum of 1 PAPI at either end of the runway, although many airports have one either side of the runway, at both landing ends for ease of visibility.The ends, or thresholds, of the runways have green lights at the “beginning” of the runway, or approach end.Runway edge lights are white, transitioning to amber near the departure end of the runway.Taxiway edge lights are always blue and, in some cases, are accompanied by green recessed, in-pavement centerline lights for enhanced visibility during inclement weather.In reality, all lights on an airfield are essential to the safe and efficient aircraft operations during takeoff, landing, and taxiing. “Hopefully the two people piloting the plane,” I joked. “Who knows what all those lights are for?” he asked.
The gentleman next to me appeared mesmerized by the collage of lights on the airfield. During an evening return flight from New York City to Portland, Maine, I gazed out the side window of the aircraft as we taxied to the end of one of JFK’s runways for takeoff.
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