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Old Jul 2, 2007 | 11:57 am
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MSP's two main parallel runways were 29/11 until a few years ago. Now they're 30/10. The actual headings are 299.9 and 300.0 degrees so 30/10 is a bit more accurate. I'm not certain why or when they changed it. I worked in the control tower for a bit at MSP in the late 80's and got very accustomed to the "29 right" calls so it was a bit of a surprise to me listening to ch9 a while back and we were cleared to land on a runway that I didn't think existed
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