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Old 02-26-2009, 07:08 AM  
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Originally Posted by DutchTeenCash View Post
polderbaan is 18r-36l yes

and yes youre right they want that one closed, mainly cause the noiselevel is way way too much, but Schiphol is stuck it has to expend but also has to comply with rules and due to the flighttax it got a big hit in the face with a lot less turnover as well
Well from an airliners economic view polderbaan is a big no no :-)
I used to fly City Bird's MD-11 up there (OO-CTB) and we had to do ILS to polderbaan almost every time. Even when i asked for another approach they usually declined it..... although they allowed allot of KLM aircraft another runway when they asked.... heh, Dutch controllers :-)
Anyway, the taxi out from that runway is fuel and time consuming.... a bit over the edge if you ask me. Most of the time we had the papers ready and cockpit prepared for crew change before we where half way to the gate haha.
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