Malaga's new runway

stopthepanic

Can anyone explain to me why they have built a new runway at Malaga but would appear not to be parallel. Surely if they are looking for dual runway ops then a parallel option would have been better as opposed to two with intersecting flight lines?

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bladeruner

stopthepanic wrote: »

Can anyone explain to me why they have built a new runway at Malaga that is so close to the old one but would appear not to be parallel. Surely if they are looking for dual runway ops then a parallel option would have been better as opposed to two with intersecting flight lines?

Parallel would be better but there's some serious terrain around Malaga which may have hampered a parallel (a guess)

They may well use one for take off , one for landing , Barcelona and Madrid (to name just 2 in Spain ) do this aswell.

I didn't think they really needed another runway yet in AGP but maybe they are looking to the future.

APM

Terrain is the reason. They are too close anyway, even if they were parallel to do parallel approaches.

highlydebased

! When did that happen?

APM

Its not opening until the 1st of March

drdeadlift

looks like an update for fs will be needed,abit like the new wee runway at frankfurt

Zyox

Imagine parallel approaches in Malaga! Approach controllers can barely handle one runway....

Irish Steve

Not parallel, but will allow a much higher utilisation, land on one, depart on the other, the separation can be much closer.

Long time ago, was in Dallas for a conference, and we visited DFW tower at a quiet time on a Saturday morning, which was their quietest time of the week during the day. I looked at the radar repeater in the tower, and at the time, there were 16 aircraft in the air within 4 miles of the airfield. There are 8 runways there, and at the time, they were using 6 of them. The airport is split into 2 tower areas, there's an East and West Tower, each tower has 4 runways under it's direct control. We were there for about an hour, and it was some sight to watch with the level of activity that was being managed. What was even more impressive a few days later was the way that their controllers accept and manage overflights of GA size aircraft that are routing to other fields in their local area, they take them right over the top, even in IFR, and take it all in their stride. We were inbound into Addison, about 15 miles NE, and were given overflight at 4000 Ft in a C182 with no hassles at all, and that was the most noticable difference between the American system and the European system. The American system welcomes GA, and embraces it, even close to the major hubs, in comparison to Europe, where the airspace around so many of the larger hubs is kept almost sterile of anything small, just in case it causes problems. The DFW, LA basin, Denver, Miami and Orlando areas are all busy areas, but they all have a very open and positive attitude to GA size aircraft. OK, they don't want them on the active runways because of the separation issues, but overflights that want to get into the GA size strips that are close to the hubs are accepted and processed in a very postive way.

extraice

most the big airports are getting upgrades , and APG been the fourth busiest airport in Spain the extra runway wich is the near side of the city has been in planning for just over 15 years , if you googlemap it you see the land was carparks , industry area and houses , this land was take over by EMTSAM and AENA ,

Airport planning problems was the little town of Guadalmar beside the sea so the runway was angle away over DESEMBOCADURA DEL RÍO GUADALHORCE
Its a delta of more than 67 hectares which is the Natural Park was a huge marsh where the river water and sea mingled, creating wetlands.
Sound emissions

Noise pollution has a low level of impact on the communities surrounding the airport, since the areas used for takeoff and landing manoeuvres are scarcely populated, used primarily for agriculture. now house area

The aircraft that use Malaga-Costa del Sol airport are, for the most part, latest generation equipment with engines that include all of the latest advances for minimising noise.
so the town won and airport had to move the runway

at the hight off the useage both runways will be used landing flight path with be on 13/31 and out over the sea on the new runway

there doing the same in TFS aswell building 2nd runway this is beside los Abrigos ...

sorry my english not good