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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hashan dis" data-source="post: 18683595" data-attributes="member: 124785">"Let’s look at the perennial white elephant Mattala Airport.  Four-lane highway  to bring and take out passengers, but no passengers!  Runway strength and length  to land the heaviest and the largest modern  skybirds, but no planes! Fancy  appearance and fancier electronics with  instrument landing systems, but some  fool forgot to have a taxiway for  the jets to enter the runway without doing a  180- turn at the end. That  is unbelievably stupid as whoever made that decision  sure did not know  anything about international aerodromes. I am not even  mentioning  runway alignment and cross winds, that is trivia relative to the ‘no   taxiway’ construction. I read in the papers someone advising COPE that  the  airport earned a lot of money from over-flying traffic as Airlines  flew the  route because Mattala was there to land in case of emergency.  Tomorrow you set  fire to Mattala, the planes will still fly the same  route without batting an  eye-lid. That I know for sure for I have been  in that sky for a very long time  flying very heavy aeroplanes all over  the world. Just for comparison, San Francisco International  has many runways and the  longest is 3,600 meters in length and 45  meters wide. Mattala is 3,500 meters  long and 60 meters wide. Wider  than SFO and only short by 100 meters – but  brilliantly designed  taxi-way – my foot! Now let’s get back to a simple argument, kindergarten style. Someone  built Mattala and another closed it and the cost was borne by the   coffers of the motherland. Well! One of them has to be wrong, either the  builder  or the ‘shut it down’ man. But looks like no one is at fault?  The reason is  simple, in politics "though your sins be as scarlet, they  shall be white as  snow." So the Mattala saga continues, maybe the  regimes will change and we get  back to square one and Mattala will  strive again. But I still like to know who  built that stupid taxiway in  a modern airport for aeroplanes to do 180- turns to  line up for  takeoff." <a href="http://island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=128362" target="_blank">http://island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=128362</a> full article Capt. Elmo Jayawardena the island paper ekata liyapu article ekaka kotasak meka.anith kotas nam aviation walata sambanda ne   </blockquote>

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