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I guess I’m going to throw the cat amongst the pigeons here…

I accept that this is unacceptable but there are many circumstances where this could be a really easy mistake to make. I can name many airports with parallel taxiways that share the same visual proportions to the runway they follow. Combine that fact with no (or unserviceable) ILS and a low sun on the horizon and I guarantee everybody here would be able to make the same mistake at the end of a long day in fading light.

In order to try to reduce the chance of us doing this, Virgin contract Jeppesen to put extra pages into our airfield booklets showing a picture from late finals for every runway we regularly operate to.