not sure if this is a good idea. What do you guys think about this idea?
UPDATE: now the engineer replies to internet opinions on ideas
"To start with, the idea is a concept and many questions I receive are very directly related to current day operations. We must realize that it will take time before an endless runway can be brought into operation. It is like a concept car in a car exhibition - it will not be implemented exactly like this, but we learn a lot from the ideas, from simulations and, later on, practical tests. If someone one hundred years ago would have said that we would be transporting as many passengers in aircraft as we would in trains, people may have thought , āa steam engine would never fit in an aircraft made of wood and ropesā.
i mean that was the whole point of this idea to make cross winds landings easier but it actually makes all landings not just crosswind harder lol all planes would have to be redesigned for landing on this runway.
1.His first argument is already flawed. āTo prevent crosswind landingsāā¦ if we had the money and land space at every airport to build a 3.5km diameter circular runway, weād just build a second or third cross runway to prevent his ever-so-feared crosswind landings.
How are the tyre walls on aircraft going to survive bank angles like that on the runway at 180knots!
Three aircraft on the circle at once? Sounds like a massive case of unsafe runway incursions!
What if you are 50 m late on your touchdown point? Now youāre shooting off the angle off the circle, without wings level, trying to initiate a bank angle to keep your centred!
ILS, RNAV and every kind of approach I guess are no more?
In terms of his noise impact, now every single house in a 10km radius around the airport is in a noise zone, devaluing ALL of those pieces of land as you can have approaches and departures over your house at anytime, rather than certain single pinpointed areas having the lesser value (which is known to the buyer), thus increasing value everywhere else
every single issue he raises is literally solved by a current airport design with 3 regular runways at 120 degree different angles to each other.
Most airports have regular seasonal weather. We donāt need circles, just design the airport with the prevailing weathers in mind (which we do). eg, LAX has 4 east west runways for the prevailing westerly winds, whatās a circle gonna do?
Whoever is paying this guy to talk, let alone do research, needs to seriously re-consider their life choices!
Imagine the lateral g posed on the wheels of a several hundred tonne aircraft barreling down ( sorry I mean around) the runway at at least 140 knots š
He said the centrifugal forces would make it stay on a runway. Have you seen bikes go sideways!?
I think that would require alot more management on the part of ATC, but because itās the length of 3 runways, if they land equally apart, it should work.
That would beā¦go around! If you can. Wait, would a go around now just be going around the circle?
Well, he said you could land anywhere since itās a circle, so maybe you use ILS to a certain point, atleast with glidescope?
Ah. I give up.
I personally think itās a cool idea. Then again, it is new. If they do build it, then we know it works. They arenāt going to build a deathtrap. It works in simulators, and all the physics I think are being tested, and a bunch of other stuff some of us might not have heard of.
Also, why is he talking to a wall in half of the video? And if there is a camera there, why do they show him talking to the wall?..