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Old Jan 9, 2007 | 5:01 am
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Originally Posted by edi-traveller
I know there's been talk of changing it so that each run way handles take off and landings at the same time - would this really increase capacity?
Yes, because the separation between a taking off plane and a landing plane can be smaller than between two landing or two taking off planes. It's called dual mode I think (almost wrote duel mode there, oooops!!! ).
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