taxiing

However, the time spend waiting to get ON the plane, or waiting for it to start taxiing, is _amazingly_ boring.

Still, something more like a train would still avoid the headache of boarding and taxiing that you get with a flight.

While taxiing at Shanghai's Pudong airport, its wingtip hit the tail of another aircraft.

>Flying faster means less time in the air, where meteorite strikes are particularly dangerous (as opposed to strikes while taxiing, or sitting idle).

An A320 burns about a half pound of fuel per second when taxiing.

But like I said: trains don't have security checks, or the 2+ hours of boarding/taxiing/waiting that come with any commercial flight.

One of the assignments her team was given was to take a business taxiing people about via bicycle and make it as profitable as possible.

I visited Berlin in 2012, and I remember taxiing near the BER terminal.

However as a pilot I can tell you that you are generally meant to turn off your transponder while taxiing on the ground.

[1] So it would be with a plane: Flying faster means less time in the air, where meteorite strikes are particularly dangerous (as opposed to strikes while taxiing, or sitting idle).

The simplest and safest way to assure that this can be done, and done safely, is to not have aircraft using them for landings, takeoffs, and taxiing.

> not have aircraft using them for landings, takeoffs, and taxiing.

Chevrons "are used to show pavement areas aligned with the runway that are unusable for landing, takeoff, and taxiing." [1] In other words, the pavement is too soft to bear a heavy load.

Are they seriously "patents" for taxiing people?

Robert Witwer, vice-president of advanced technology at Honey-well of Morristown, cited some other reasons [1]: - Increased congestion: "Short hauls do a lot of taxiing time, especially in a place like Newark, where you can be 20th in line" - Legislation: “And there are a number of airports in Europe that have tough emission standards that would make the Green Taxiing System appealing.