The “hold short line“ (where you wait for tower to clear you for takeoff) is often the gateway to the sometimes best part of my day(the most relaxed, at least). Today it was in and out of Austin‘s Bergstrom International for meetings with a Austin-based technology client. Happy Friday, everyone!
PS. People often ask when they see something like this if there are 36 runways, or otherwise how are runways numbered? A runway number is the closest 10 number increment to the compass heading of the particular runway, minus the last digit. So, for example, if this particular runway was oriented 357° on the compass, it would be numbered “36”(the other end of the runway, oriented 177° would be numbered “18”). Because there are two main, parallels runways on either side of KAUS, the one on the left side of the airport as you are approaching the airport is “36L” and the one that I was about to take, on the other side of the airport, is “36R “.
If, unlike today, the winds favor south arrivals and departures, the same runways used for that orientation would be “18R” and “18L” respectively. KDFW has a 17C/35C, and you can guess where that one is situated relative to the others (I’ve landed on that one several times).