Challenge question: If you were assigned the task of building a single general aviation runway 3700 feet in length, where would you place it? Draw your runway plan on the map to the correct scale. (Make it 100 feet wide.) Give your reasons for this site selection.
Use Figure 23.3 to do the following work and answer the question.
What will be an ideal response?
Note the location on the map along the nearly level ridge—only 2 ft difference in elevation from one end of the proposed runway to the other. NW-SE between 405 and 403 elevation marks.
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