Okay, I have an ATC question...

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Seeing Erik Selde's question about runways reminded me of one I've had
but keep forgetting to ask.

I don't remember the exact wording, but when ATC offers me a runway and
I want another one (once it offered me a teeny-tiny runway for landing
my 747!), it will often respond with something like "Roger, sidestep
runway XX and head in to runway YY," or "Sidestep runway XX and fly
parallel to runway YY," or some such. I wish I could remember the exact
wording but it's been a while. What does that mean? I usually just
land on the runway I want at that point, and I figure I'm doing it
right, because it never scolds me with the "You did not have permission
to land" admonishment.



John

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"The Man Behind The Curtain (formerly The Lindbergh Baby)"
<johngrabowski@earthblink.net> wrote in message
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> I don't remember the exact wording, but when ATC offers me a runway and I
> want another one (once it offered me a teeny-tiny runway for landing my
> 747!), it will often respond with something like "Roger, sidestep runway
> XX and head in to runway YY," or "Sidestep runway XX and fly parallel to
> runway YY," or some such. I wish I could remember the exact wording but
> it's been a while. What does that mean? I usually just land on the
> runway I want at that point, and I figure I'm doing it right, because it
> never scolds me with the "You did not have permission to land"
> admonishment.

I recently had an enlightening experience with respect to this.

I was flying into Jeffco airport outside Denver (KBJC). ATC gave me a
visual approach to 29L, but it was too cloudy to see the airport or the
ground, so I asked for the ILS approach to 29R. ATC responded by giving me
the ILS 29R approach "sidestep 29L". I got onto the localizer and the glide
slope for 29R, and when I broke through the clouds and saw the airport, I
shifted over and visually landed on 29L. I figured that was the way to do
it, and ATC didn't disagree.

Wayne

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Beech45Whiskey wrote:
> Wayne Citrin <wcitrin@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>ATC responded by giving me the ILS 29R approach "sidestep 29L".
>
>
> This is common at Boston's Logan airport as well. 4R has the ILS and 4L
> does not. On the few times I have been in there, as long as the ceiling
> permitted (but was still technically IFR), the controller would always
> issue a clearance for "ILS 4R, sidestep 4L," since there was inevitably a
> line of commercial aircraft stacked up behind us on the ILS.
>

Aaah, thanks!



John

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