Rwy 09 Runway Alignment @ KSAV

[your_dreamguy]

Hello,

Anyone know why runway is designated as "09" at SAV, when the runway course is 097 degrees? ... and yes, I do have life

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Less paint required to make a "9" on runway vs a "10"....and no, I actually don't have a life.

 

[say again]

Hello,

Anyone know why runway is designated as "09" at SAV, when the runway course is 097 degrees? ... and yes, I do have life

To lazy to change it. BTW-some life you're leading!! :laugh: . JK

 

[Andy Neill]

Hello,

Anyone know why runway is designated as "09" at SAV, when the runway course is 097 degrees? ... and yes, I do have life

I don't know but I also see KLAX with a mag hdg of 069.1 degrees for 06L, 06R, 07L, and 07R. Rddle me that.

 

[tomgoodman]

Landings always get a "Boo!"

According to an old airline story, the approach end of that runway is built over a graveyard -- metal tablets inlaid in the concrete mark the spot. So it's probably ghosts rotating the thing.

 

[AppBrookie]

There are two graves under Runway 9 roughly abeam the terminal north of the centerline. They are marked w/ paint on the pavement. The story I heard: Husband and Wife that donated the land for the airport(???)
The tower will point them out if you can't find them.
No Joke.

 

[erj-145mech]

When the runway was first laid out, years ago, its heading was closer to 060°, but the locals have pumped so much water out from under the airport, that with the subsidence, the airport is screwing itself into the earth.:laugh:

 

[Phaedrus]

LAX riddle's answer is the same one that answers RWYs 26 and 27 in the ATL, Shanghai 35/34 and others that have multiple runways.

 

[LarryinTN]

The runway number only has to be within 10 degrees of the actual alignment, there is no requirement for it to be the closest ten degrees. Actual alignment changes over the years as the magnetic variation slowly changes but they don't have to rename/repaint/republish until it exceeds 10 degrees.

Airports with multiple parallel runways will often use different names to help avoid confusion.

 

[grog_sit_reserv]

LJ_ABX

Spot on!

 

[Capt. Caucasian]

The two graves at Savannah are not painted nor are they metal but actual grave stones laid flat in the cement. They are not the orginal stones but stones none the less. There are also two more stones lying flat in the ditch in between the runway and taxiway.

The reason they are there is because of Georgia law. When they wanted to extend the runway there was a small family graveyard in the way. The law says that in order to move a grave the next of kin has to be notified and give approval. Well, they could not find the next of kin so, the graves stayed.

Also, ATL has a family graveyard in between 9R and 10. The next of kin did not want to move the graves so the airport had to leave them and build around. They even had to build a special road to the graves so the family members could visit.

God I love Georgia!

 

[Palomino]

According to an old airline story, the approach end of that runway is built over a graveyard -- metal tablets inlaid in the concrete mark the spot. So it's probably ghosts rotating the thing.

i asked the Tower controller one day about the headstones. he let us taxi right up to them and check them out. i remember them as being left of centerline when departing rwy 9. abeam the terminal building about halfway between intersections at twy E1 and A. Tower guy said it is the gravesite of Native Americans. don't know if he was blowing smoke or not. but they are there and looked like regular type flat headstones to me from what i recall.

i guess the ghosts rule everything in that town...