KDEN Ground Ops

At KDEN almost all aircraft at stands at concourse b and c are supposed to push to the end of the yellow line at the stand. This enables multiple aircraft at stands next to eachother to push at the same time in real life i believe. You are not supposed to start your engines until you have stopped at the end of the stand line. Also the taxi lanes closest to the terminals are not to be used by aircraft larger than the 767 and dc10/md11.

Example of push position below:

Also the apron taxilanes do have a standard directionality
Here is the diagram (cyan is for aircraft taxiing west, green is for aircraft taxiing east):

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Thanks for the note.

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That makes sense. One thing I can say is that the engine start part isn’t true for all airlines. At least, when I fly SW out of Denver, the engines start after about 3 seconds into pushback.

Also, that sort of pushback position is actually super common at airports around the US. Not all of them, but many that have straight pushbacks won’t turn the aircraft during pushback

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Just updated this post to include apron taxi directionality

I dont know of any other airports that have a stop position marked at the end of the stand like they have in denver like this though

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Does this apply for wide body ?

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Thanks for the note! I’m a very picky person when it comes to realism and this is really helpful.

Just got done with a flight out of Denver and i didn’t know about this at all so now I’m thinking about doing it again :full_moon_face: (dont judge me)

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Will make sure I do this!

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There is something similar at MDW, outlined in my Guide to MDW.

I will be sure to use this.

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Sorry if this is a stupid question, but where do you find out procedures like this?

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I’m sure there are resources. In the case of MDW, I know from experience, and some inductive reasoning.

At MDW they do it so planes can still pass.

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Sometimes you can find info online, or if you fly out of an airport long enough you can observe things being done a certain way every time. Or you have connections to ground workers. There are several that work at different airports around the world who are active here on the forum!

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Yes it does, ive been pushed irl in a 777 and we seemingly stopped at the stop bar and started the engines there

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I only know these procedures from watching it happen irl multpile times. If you look at KORD on satellite imagery they also have something similar at the b and c gates. You will notice a Y shaped pattern at the end of the stands, those are also push and start positions

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I looked at some satelite imagery and it seems the straight push is only for b and c gates ill edit the post

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I’ve actually experienced taxi directions for CS and BN (also BS and AN) are the opposite of what you’ve shown. Or simply put, I’ve always seen the southern taxiway do ops towards the west, and the northern taxiway towards the east.

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Try opennav.com and search for the airport like KDEN : Denver International Airport | OpenNav

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Nice way to find departure procedures!