Parallel landings has special requirements. Most airports cannot do parallel landings and instead use one runway for landings and one for takeoffs.
Aviation has a very low reporting threshold. Every minor breach of procedure or a near miss generates a report. The FAA estimates 16 million flights per year, with a total of 1760 runway incursions in 2023. A tenth of a percent incident rate is not bad.
Imagine how the statistics would look if we held automobiles to the same reporting standards.
I have heard too many ATC recordings of where the landing plane has to go around because the crossing plane is too slow.
And you say well coordinated, but people still land on the wrong runway, and people still land on taxiways…
But I digress, I think my airports just don’t have enough traffic to support parallel landings
Parallel landings has special requirements. Most airports cannot do parallel landings and instead use one runway for landings and one for takeoffs.
Aviation has a very low reporting threshold. Every minor breach of procedure or a near miss generates a report. The FAA estimates 16 million flights per year, with a total of 1760 runway incursions in 2023. A tenth of a percent incident rate is not bad.
Imagine how the statistics would look if we held automobiles to the same reporting standards.