You put the parking brake on??
Steve: No Bob, I thought you did..
I've staked a hundred or more (it seems) runway extensions, aprons, taxiways and god-knows what else around APs. One thing comes to mind looking at that pic...
Everything I ever saw built that was adjacent to to the OFZ (obstacle free zone)had a max of 6:1 slope. That looks steeper than that to me.
Stewart Airport (used to be Stewart AFB) has even steeper slopes than that. The wetern end of the east-west runway is at the top left of this picture:
I don't remember the numbers from our survey work, but it has to be more than 60 feet higher than the road.
It's a good place to sit and watch the C-5A's do touch-and-go.
> Stewart Airport (used to be Stewart AFB) has even steeper slopes than that. The wetern end of the east-west runway is at the top left of this picture:
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> I don't remember the numbers from our survey work, but it has to be more than 60 feet higher than the road.
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> It's a good place to sit and watch the C-5A's do touch-and-go.
Try this one at 36°08'15.04"N, 99°18'09.72"W. The south end of the runway at a small uncontrolled municipal airport falls off into a ravine(canyon).
