Two silly questions

[RosscoPCole]

I guess that these have been answered before, but please excuse my ignorance.

1. Why do most runways go in an east-west direction? Well the ones i have landed on have.

2. Why are the main doors on airliners on the left?

Thanks in advance

[Blue Meanie]

RosscoPCole said:

I guess that these have been answered before, but please excuse my ignorance.

1. Why do most runways go in an east-west direction? Well the ones i have landed on have.

2. Why are the main doors on airliners on the left?

Thanks in advance

Well, for number 2, it would make sense to have doors on a certain side so you don't need embarking/disembarking tunnels on both sides of a gate. For number one, I'm not sure they are? Runways are designated a number based on their direction. Runway 12 is one at 120 degrees, and runway 9 is one at 90 degrees.

Edited by Blue Meanie on Wednesday 23 December 05:45

[LD1Racing]

Not specificaly east-west, normally aligned with the prevailing wind direction.

[mattdaniels]

1. Runways are generally built to be aligned with the prevailing winds in the locality where possible, with additional "crosswind" runways built if possible.

2. The doors are the same both sides, it just makes best use of space to organise things such that the air bridges get the self loading freight in from one side and the non self loading freight is loaded from the other.