So i was flying to GPS/SEGS airport in the Galápagos islands and I encountered difficulties taxiing to the runway for takeoff.
Could soneone maybe explain what I should have done there.
Anyone who has inquiries about taxiing methods could send them here and someone could solve them or explain them.
If this isn’t worthwhile devs can close this
Not all airports have taxiways which go to the end of the runway. In these situations you need to perform what’s called a backtrack or backtaxi, which essentially means taxiing along the runway to get to your takeoff position.
See below for more info:
I understand what backtaxi is but in the case of GPS the way i had parled made it impossible to go to runway 14 for takeoff and the airplane in fr24 showed that it had indeed parked that way. There was no indication in fr24 about the takeoff as it was missing from the replay.
Is it an Airbus or GA aircraft? It does look pretty tight for the Airbuses even just looking at the satellite map but I’m sure they power out with very tight turns and differential thrust and ignore the taxi lines but use marshallers to carefully maneuver out of the parking position. It’s a small airport with limited resources so they likely did the bare minimum to comply with IATA regulations
Avianca and LATAM fly rhe A320 there commercial.
But im not sure