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This is the reality - most airports run their runways “to the fence” for some variation of “to the fence”. If they could reasonably have a thousand extra feet of runway they’ll add that, as it supports more operations and doesn’t really hurt.

Some of them even move around the recommended touchdown point depending on other factors, if the runway is extra long.




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