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For the Parallel Meaning

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What is meant by “for the parallel”. I was listening to live ATC for KIND, and frequently heard approach use this with something like “inbound for the parallel”. I know KIND had parallel runways in use. Is this maybe used if a landing runway left or right has not yet been assigned?

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    Russ Roslewski on Sep 16, 2019

    How I’ve generally heard it used is when one airplane is inbound to, say, runway 17L and another airplane is inbound to 17R. Tower will issue traffic such as “Warrior 123, traffic is a 737 on final to the parallel”. Essentially meaning, make sure you stay on final and don’t wander off toward the other runway, there’s another plane coming in to that one.

    I don’t think ATC could really use this phrase if there are more than two parallel runways, though.

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  2. mm1 on Sep 16, 2019

    Thanks Russ!

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