Saturday, January 22, 2011

Checking out the new runway at Greensboro (GSO), or as many refer to it, Piedmont Triad International

First post in a few months, been BUSY.

Emily and I flew up to Greensboro today for a short cross-country to land on an almost new runway. The runway was built in tandem with the opening of a new FedEx hub at the airport. It is 9000' x 150' of awesomeness. The weather was nice, cloudy up around 9-10,000 feet, cold, weak wind gusts, smooth above 2500', and good visibility (about 30-40 miles I'd say). Pictures are below of 1) short final into the runway, 2) holding short for takeoff back to TTA and 3) a view of the airport as we leave the area. In the last picture you can see an RJ sitting rolling out from landing on runway 5R. Check out the video of the takeoff here. Pretty cool.