Strange Parking at Dublin

#1

Hello! So, I flew in a TBM-930 from the Isle of Man to Dublin on the Expert Server. As I was in a private aircraft, I did not want to park at a normal gate. I looked on the taxiway map, and noticed two auxiliary hangar parking areas on the other side of RWY 16. There is no direct runway crossing to get to these hangars, I would need to taxi along the actual runway. When I got to what I saw as the closest crossing, I asked ATC if I could cross over, hoping that they would see where I was trying to go. They then gave me progressive instructions to do a 180 and directed me to a regular commercial parking spot. I did not want to create a fuss, so I just went along with it.

I was wondering if there is a better way that I could have done this, or is it impossible? Here is a picture from IF of Dublin, I will point out different areas of interest:

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Thank you to anyone who can help!

#2

That runway is actually used IRL for taxiing. But seeing as traffic in IF at EIDW is astronomically higher than those in the real world, I would just go with the flow, as you did. There really isn’t anything you could do imo

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#3

That would makes sense, but it is still also a runway so I couldn’t just taxi down it willy nilly. An yeah, I guess there is nothing I can do, with IF adding a new niche atc command

#4

There are a few GA Parking spots in the Northern areas of Dublin Airport.

In the real world, runway 16 is often used as a taxiway, not all the time. Runway 16/34 is rarely used, when runway 28/20 is closed for maintenance or when the winds are direct and strong to heading 16/34.

In that case, I would suggest you to message the controller responsible for instructing you the progressive taxi instructions. I don’t know IFATC Lawin’s Tag or username here in this forum, other IFATC members can tag him for you. 😉

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#5

Yes that’s my exact point, IFATC couldn’t have guessed you were trying to taxi using the runway, the only option you have is to request a runway crossing. It’s a similar situation when back-taxiing over Unicom. There is no command to announce a back taxi so you have to announce it as a runway crossing and hope others will understand

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#6

Oh, ok. I guess I did not see those other spots. Yeah, 34 was being used as a runway at the time, so that probably made things complicated for the controller. There was only me and one other aircraft on frequency though.

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#7

I’ve noticed that on Unicom as well.

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#8

16/34 is used as a taxiway at DUB

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