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Originally Posted by svandamme
On a normal runway, if the head wind drops or the rate of descent is variable, or there is poor visibility, low ceiling, at worst you come down 500 meter past the point where you normally touch down.
Still plenty of runway left to stop the plane.
How are they planning to do that on a circular runway?
come out of the low ceiling and then say, aw shucks, i missed my turn
There is less safety margin.
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So far you are the first person to raise a legitimate concern in this thread.
The problems that exclude this from use are that of landing.
I find it kinda funny the way certain users try to find non existent problems with take off. Possibly, unlike myself, they've never been to an oval track. Take off is easy.
The only situation I can think of where a run way like this would be useful, is launching heavily fueled long range aircraft from limited spaces. The landing distance required is shorter, so these aircraft could land on straight run ways, but take off from the bank circular. The downside, is the aircraft that would benefit from this, would put serious load on the points of contact.