✈️ ~ Captain’s Trivia About Runways ~ ✈️ Hello everyone! I’m Sakai, the captain of Boeing 777 aircraft. Today, I’d like to talk about airport runways🧑🏻✈️ Let’s start with a quiz! 💡 How long do you think runways are? 🛬 The answer is… the shortest runways at airports where ANA operates in Japan are about 2 kilometers long (there are even shorter ones), and the longest runways are 4 kilometers long at Narita airport and Kansai International Airport in Osaka. International flights that carry a lot of fuel are heavier, so they need longer runways. Since takeoff involves accelerating rapidly from a standstill and take off in under a minute, you might have imagined they were a bit shorter, right? 👀❓ Also, did you know that runways are not perfectly flat? 😲 They might have slight inclines across the whole runway or just at the edges due to the natural terrain. An interesting airport is the Hachijojima Airport in the southern Izu islands in Tokyo, where the runway rises in the middle due to the terrain. When you look at the runway from the front, you can't see the end of it. It looks as if the runway stretches straight into the blue sky. 🔭🌞 We pilots study the different features of each runway to improve our skills and adapt our flying techniques to each airport. ✨ You might find it interesting to learn a bit about runways too. 😊 👨✈️ Looking forward to having you onboard! 👍 #CrewView
ありがとう、この役立つ情報に。。。
Thank you for your clear explanation, Captain Sakai! Arigato gozai mas!
Student at Ashikaga Institute of Technology
2moGood information, captain.