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Originally Posted by Ryan Coke
Another runway will be great, and reduce delays for sure. It will be a gongshow when the strong West winds come up and everything is forced back onto 28 though.
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Here is our YYC ATC'er talking about that point:
"When the parallel is completed, pilots will increasingly need to be 'players' and take the long ones despite Chinook winds, strictly for capacity reasons. There's so much pavement there to 'grease' a landing with a 20+ knots crosswind that it'll have to become the modus operandi of the airport and its tenants, unless we're talking about extreme conditions, which I'm not.
Capacity will take 30-50% hit when we're forced to go to E-W ops. "