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Originally Posted by Madman
No, no, no...not 25, 28 - very big difference there.
25 is rarely, (if ever), used anymore. When I was taking flight lessons way back in the day, I made a special request to use it and it even felt small in the small aircraft we flew.
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Uh Madman, 25 was being used for commercial jets on Sunday. I saw it with my own eyes and listened to ATC vector arrivals for it. Here is a quote from cyeg66 who is a YYC arrivals controller and posts on SSP:
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Originally Posted by cyeg66
Yeah, we had 5 or 6 straight go-arounds for 28, wind shear of +35 kts at 500', so planes started opting for 25 and things started going a little better.
LH was the first to try 28 for a while but by then, the wind had dissipated from 240@46G58 to 230@27G42, still quite a difference. 737's and the like were only going about 80 kts inside the markers.
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When I did all my training and instructing at YYC from 1999-2004 we would use 25/07 all the time if the winds and traffic permitted it. It was hardly shunned for use and it was plenty wide and long for many aircraft types.