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Re:Airport Simulator by skeater15 on Monday July 20, 2026 @11:18AM (#48980084)
Landing either way is not realistic. Even with no wind airports have a designated runway open. For example a straight North and South "runway" has runway 0 and runway 18, and only one will be open at any given time regardless of windspeed.
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Re:Airport Simulator by einhard on Monday July 20, 2026 @01:33PM (#48982037)
If an airport is uncontrolled, planes can land in either direction. Whether the pilots choose to do so is a different matter.

At airports with towers, the controllers can allow landings in either direction. That they usually don't is more of a function of existing traffic.

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Re:Airport Simulator by sdh9 on Monday July 20, 2026 @08:45PM (#48986794)
Runway 36
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