Runway Taxi Marshal
Be the controller of a single runway. Arrivals circle in the hold burning fuel, departures wait at the holding point and taxiing aircraft need to cross, but only one can use the runway at a time and a heavy aircraft leaves rough air behind it. Land the ones low on fuel first and keep the delays short. Six busier and busier shifts.
- Strategy
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- Mouse, touch or keyboard
- Added 10 November 2026
- #runway
- #airtraffic
- #airport
- #waketurbulence
- #fuel
- #scheduling
Runway Taxi Marshal
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How to play
- Three buttons (keys 1 to 3): Clear to land, Clear for take-off and Clear to cross. Land clears the arrival with the least fuel, take-off the departure that has waited longest, and cross the longest-waiting taxiing aircraft.
- The runway is in use while an aircraft lands, takes off or crosses. After a heavy aircraft the runway is held for a wake gap, shown in orange, because a lighter aircraft behind it can be thrown by the wingtip vortices.
- Arrivals burn fuel the whole time they are in the hold. Below sixty seconds a pilot declares an emergency, and an aircraft that runs out of fuel ends the shift. Handle every movement with the mean delay under the limit.
Controls: mouse, touch or keyboard. Made by CalcoTools.
Tips and strategy
- Do not hold back a departure for the sake of an arrival that still has plenty of fuel: arrivals can wait, but the clock on departures is delay.
- A heavy aircraft costs a wake gap, so follow it with a crossing when you can: that does not suffer from the wake.
- Look at the lowest fuel in the hold, not the number of aircraft: one low aircraft matters more than three comfortable ones.
FAQ
- What is wake turbulence?
- Every aircraft in flight leaves a pair of spinning tubes of air off its wingtips. Heavy aircraft leave strong ones, and they can roll a small aircraft that flies into them, so controllers space the following aircraft out by a minute or two.
- Why can't arrivals just wait for ever?
- They carry only a fixed amount of fuel, and the reserve is the last thing a pilot wants to use. Once an aircraft declares an emergency it must be landed next.
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