Runway visual range (RVR), in aviation meteorology, is the distance over which a pilot of an aircraft on the centreline of the runway can see the runway surface markings delineating the runway or identifying its centre line.

a change in the active runway.

APACHE missiles carrying KRISS runway penetrating bombs.

On the morning of November 20, 2008 runway 18R 36L was changed to runway 18C 36C in anticipation of the upcoming commissioning of the new third parallel runway which would carry the 18R 36L designation when opened.

Israel will avoid at all costs a large ground incursion.

This new runway lies west of the three existing runways.

This high precision missile carries 10 KRISS runway penetrating submunitions.

Facilities There is one runway, 1,851 meters long and 33 meters wide.

Refurbishment of the Guam International Airport runway system was begun in 2002.

In aviation, a crosswind is the component of wind that is blowing across the runway, making landings and take offs more difficult than if the wind were blowing straight down the runway.

Typically, runway resealing does not necessarily require an airport to be shut down.

Constraining American policy may, therefore, be one of the motivations behind Israel s incursion into Gaza.

Runway 9 27 reopened for traffic on November 30, 2009 after nine months of resurfacing.

The city has a large airport located north west of the city with a runway.

Work on the project started in May and the runway was completed in December 2004.

55 and 56), the National Democratic Party Government signed a contract to expand the runway.

China s leaders have yet to explain what prompted the incursion but there is no shortage of speculation.

In 2003, while Taylor was under rebel attack, he organized and supported an incursion into Côte d Ivoire.

45), the Government of Anguilla has continued to work on the extension of the Wallblake Airport runway.

In 1949, runways 3L 21R and 9L 27R were built, and in 1950, runway 4R 22L was added.

When coming onto the runway, the taxi lights go off and the landing lights and strobes go on.

A snapshot of the runway on a flight leaving Doha airport, heading for Kathmandu, Nepal on 31 August 2010.

The incursion, which lasted eight days, could have drawn the armed forces of Kurdistan into a broader regional war.

They told me that the demolition took place during an Israeli military incursion on 11 to 13 May 2004.

A brief incursion by a Chinese submarine into Japanese territorial waters a few months ago caused further alarm in Tokyo.

In May 2004, the runway extension and control tower facility of the T. B. Lettsome International Airport were officially opened.

For India, the Chinese incursion also threatens its access to the 6,300 meter high Siachen Glacier, to the west of Depsang.

Ironically, the most likely way to avoid large scale confrontation between Fatah and Hamas is through an Israeli incursion into Gaza.

The new runway has a more durable concrete surface, and opened in time for the peak of the FedEx shipping season.

LDA Landing Distance Available The length of runway that is declared available and suitable for the ground run of an airplane landing.

It has one runway designated 9 27 with an asphalt and concrete surface measuring 7,200 by 150 feet (2,194 x 45 m).

If there is more than one runway pointing in the same direction (parallel runways), each runway is identified by appending Left (L), Center (C) and Right (R) to the number to identify its position (when facing its direction) for example, Runways One Five Left (15L), One Five Center (15C), and One Five Right (15R).

A paralyzed and rudderless Indian government initially blacked out reporting on the incursion, lest it come under public pressure to mount a robust response.

China s incursion reaffirms the ancient strategic axiom that geography is the real determinant of history and, as a result, of foreign and security policy, too.

With the arrival of the aircraft carrier on Sunday, June 9, 2013 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, Arak airport was officially opened a new runway.

To add to India s woes, Salman Khurshid, the country s bungling foreign minister, initially made light of the deepest Chinese incursion in more than a quarter century.

Israel conducted the recent showdown with Hamas in a regional context that has changed dramatically since its last incursion into Gaza, Operation Cast Lead in 2008.

Richard Dawkins urges all atheists to openly state their position and to fight the incursion of the church into politics and science. A fiery, funny, powerful talk.

I woke up, they opened the door, I went out to get some fresh air, and I looked and there was a man running across the runway.

Talabani established an alliance with Iran, permitting them to conduct a military incursion into northern Iraq aimed at the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran on July 28.

Number one this incursion into your land these past 20 years, and before, the reason anyone is interested in your land, and particularly the United States, it's oil.

Early this month, India s army foiled an attempted incursion by a group of 30 to 40 militants from Pakistani territory, leading Indian critics to decry official peace overtures.

Terminal 2 Terminal 2, opened on March 26, 2008, along with the third runway, gives a capacity of 60 million passengers and 4.2 million tonnes of cargo annually.

The runway length of 3,700 meters and a width of over 60 meters and has all the facilities for the takeoff and landing of aircraft in all classes.

The architect of the war, Ariel Sharon (then Defence Minister), presented it to the Israeli government as a limited incursion into Southern Lebanon but took his troops to Beirut.