Kolkata: A taxiway at Kolkata airport that has been in place for nearly three years has got a go-ahead from the aviation regulator and will now be used as a rapid exit taxiway. This will help save 8-10 precious seconds of runway occupancy time by arriving aircraft, clearing the main runway for departing flights.
\n\u201cWe have got clearance to declare taxiway R as rapid exit taxiway for flights arriving from Madhyamgram-end or north of the runway. This runway is in use for over seven months a year and will allow planes to exit at high speed. At present, planes have to either brake hard to reduce speed before turning into taxiway R or roll ahead and exit the runway from taxiway C further down the runway. Either way, planes stay longer on the runway and therefore delay its use by another flight. With the commissioning of taxiway R as rapid exit taxiway, planes can move off the primary runway at high speed,\u201d explained Kolkata airport air traffic control (ATC) general manager R S Lahauria.
\nPlanes touch down at 250-300kmph and need to brake to exit the runway. When there is a rapid exit taxiway, it can turn into the taxiway at 90kmph. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kolkata: A taxiway at Kolkata airport that has been in place for nearly three years has got a go-ahead from the aviation regulator and will now be used as a rapid exit taxiway. This will help save 8-10 precious seconds of runway occupancy time by arriving aircraft, clearing the main runway for departing flights. \u201cWe have got clearance to declare taxiway R as rapid exit taxiway for flights arriving from Madhyamgram-end or north of the runway. This runway is in use for over seven months a year and will allow planes to exit at high speed. At present, planes have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}