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<blockquote data-quote="jb747" data-source="post: 2303458" data-attributes="member: 24168"><p>On the 767, 747 and 380, there was more than enough space between the front wheels for you to straddle the centreline and yet still miss the lighting. Even during the take off roll. Well most the time, anyway.</p><p></p><p>If you taxi off the centreline, how far do you go? One metre. Two. That's space that's coming out of your wingtip, and main gear clearance. Clipping an object, would not be a good look, any yet not staying on the centreline makes that sort of error more likely. You don't have to go far off either, before you start running over lights with the body gear, so it's quite self defeating.</p><p></p><p>It's one of those little things in aviation, that's drilled in from day one (by the RAAF anyway). You aim at the centreline. Not near it. On it. It's the same with things like the circuit altitude. It's not nearly 1,000'. It's exactly 1,000'. If you aren't right on it, you should be correcting to get there. The idea is for that sort of accuracy to become natural and instinctive. And once it does, it drives you nuts when people are too lazy to do it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jb747, post: 2303458, member: 24168"] On the 767, 747 and 380, there was more than enough space between the front wheels for you to straddle the centreline and yet still miss the lighting. Even during the take off roll. Well most the time, anyway. If you taxi off the centreline, how far do you go? One metre. Two. That's space that's coming out of your wingtip, and main gear clearance. Clipping an object, would not be a good look, any yet not staying on the centreline makes that sort of error more likely. You don't have to go far off either, before you start running over lights with the body gear, so it's quite self defeating. It's one of those little things in aviation, that's drilled in from day one (by the RAAF anyway). You aim at the centreline. Not near it. On it. It's the same with things like the circuit altitude. It's not nearly 1,000'. It's exactly 1,000'. If you aren't right on it, you should be correcting to get there. The idea is for that sort of accuracy to become natural and instinctive. And once it does, it drives you nuts when people are too lazy to do it! [/QUOTE]
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