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Old 12-23-2008 | 09:34 AM
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From: Curator at Static Display
Default Threshold Crossing Height

Normal TCH for an airliner is about 50 feet--hard to tell, because right when he crossed the threshold, the camera went to zoom and I lost the perspective of the threshold---but I would guess he was twice that, which means, under normal technique, he would touch down twice as far.
Since airliners typically aim 1500 feet down the runway, that would put him at 3000 for touchdown.

Rwy 19 is 6869 ft long---not a whole lot left, although I saw a DAL 757 land on 26 at Pensacola with 3000 behind him...and it's not much different. OK when it's dry; bad when wet or icy.
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