Are You Lined Up With The Correct Runway?

[@dennisnbrown]

This is fantastic advice. Also for those who use ForeFlight you can do what I do which is to use the procedure/traffic pattern option in your flight plan page which will put the magenta line directly on the approach end of the runway you were selecting. You can select different options such as cross mid field direct , teardrop, left or right traffic, best side, or straight in. Then you can use the magenta line all the way through the pattern to the ground. It takes about 10 seconds and is super easy once you know how.

[@sonoftherepublic9792]

Excellent habit to have. Thanks for the tip.

[@DougBow96]

Excellent tip Despise the surprise 👍

[@quinnjim]

Back in the 1990's I worked at a regional airline. We would do a late night flight in to a strip in Louisiana. There were 3 identical (uncontrolled) airports with runway 18. You would fly past the first two, and land at the third. There wasn't a good instrument approach (and no GPS). We had two pilots that landed at the WRONG AIRPORT! Late at night after flying 10 legs, low visibility, Center asking if you had the field "in sight".....it all adds up to a bad decision too easily being made. I always used whatever means possible (even dialing in both VOR's to make a point over the field) to avoid this. Wrong runway is bad, wrong airport is much worse! It has happened commercially before, so I'm sure it has happened to GA pilots.

[@Over50andLearningToFly]

Absolutely! Thanks for watching!

[@Parr4theCourse]

God tip, I started doing that very same thing after landing at my first "Parallel" runaway airport . . . PS . . . good to see ya back n the air!!!

[@jerryv9138]

This also applies to Airports, like KBFI in Seattle, where there is a Taxiway directly in front of the (smaller) Runway (32R). The Taxiway shifts right before the Runway, yet it is easy to believe the Taxiway IS part of the Runway. I had KBFI Tower just go NUTS on an approach to 32R one day. Even assuring the Controller, "I have the Runway Numbers IN SIGHT, and will land on the numbers" didn't stop her from... commenting.... even after I landed. When I went to Ground, I asked to taxi directy to the Tower and requested a converstion with the Tower Chief. 'Nuff said!! =)

[@PaulGarthAviation]

I remember the early hours of the long cross-countries. I think the psychology - my excuse back then - was that I was elated that I had actually found the airfield... any airfield. issue was that I was perfectly lined up for Providence Rhode Island, and should have been for Quonset. Good thing was that I had Flight Folllowing, who set me straight!

[@sactu1]

This happened to me once - in the US while I was on a 3-year military exchange assignment. Lining up in Colorado Springs there was a combined threshhold and I started my takeoff run on the wrong RW! ATC were right on it, and stopped me before I made a bad situation worse. Rookie mistake, but it taught me a valuable lesson..

[@paulburgess8527]

It happened to me within my first few days of flight training, and we got called out by the ATC. So embarrassing, but I so appreciated it.

[@Raygreene22]

We just had a midair collision here at KVGT Las Vegas because two planes tried to land on the same runway. We have parallel runways. The cause of the accident was the failure of one plane to identify and line up the correct runway. 4 dead.

[@Over50andLearningToFly]

I know and it happens a lot more than people think and I really wanted to do this program to make sure pilots confirm that they’re on the right white runway and it happens to pilots with all levels of experience. Thanks for watching! And share the video!

[@planeflyer21]

Mid-IFR training, I had for the first time nailed the localizer approach at a smaller field. A fellow student had come along and later said he thought the instrument was broken. I was all puffed up. So my instructor had me return to base and fly the back course. Completely lined up on the wrong parallel runway, chasing the needle the incorrect direction and came in super high. It was good of him to pop that bubble of pride immediately.

[@Over50andLearningToFly]

It’s all a learning experience! Thanks for watching!

[@davebear6312]

Pleading the 5th

[@jonathanmcphail5254]

Who di you think you are, Harrison Ford?!?!? 😂

[@Over50andLearningToFly]

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