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This happened on my flight yesterday: South Jersey Regional - VAY - 3911 feet runway 8/26. Last 1300 feet of the western end of the runway has no taxiway, so you have to back-taxi to the beginning of runway 8 and use the turn-around pad. We (my wife and I) got into the plane, all set up (GPS, etc) and taxied out to the runway. Winds were 310 at 4, then variable at 4. The planes in the pattern were using runway 8 - the sock was so limp that it didn't provide any useful guidance. I waited for a few landings, and then back-taxied.

While I was at the end of the runway waiting for a plane to land, another plane announced on the 45 for runway 26. We were using 8, so I asked whether he meant 8 or 26. Cherokee B: OK. Cherokee turning downwind for 8. Cherokee A: Cherokee turning final for 8.

Cherokee A lands and pulls off, nobody visible on base or final, so. Me: Cherokee departing runway 8. Cherokee B: Cherokee turning base for 8. Full throttle, start rolling (he's behind me, right?) Cherokee B: Cherokee turning final for runway 8. He's lined up for 26 - directly opposite me! Me: Aircraft on final for 26 - I am coming at you the other way!

He doesn't turn, or go around. Me: South Jersey Cherokee aborting takeoff runway 8.

Cherokee B: Cherokee going around OK, good - he's not going to land on me. I turned off the runway and called Clear of the Active. Cherokee B: Aren't we using 26? Cherokee A: We're using 8. Cherokee B: We were using 26 when I left Cherokee A: The winds shifted, now we're using 8. Cherokee B: Cherokee turning downwind for runway 8.

(He'd flown upwind and just shifted right to be on downwind.) The Cherokee B landed on 8. Power Thermal Utility Tool. I'm sitting on the taxiway, and there NO WAY I'm going to back-taxi until the other guy is down. He calls base and final and lands on 8. I wrote down his tail number and the time - in case I decided to report him (at this point I won't). Cherokee B: South Jersey Cherokee clear of the active Me: By the way, runway 8 is the one with the big EIGHT at the end Cherokee B: Thanks, buddy. Guys at the club on handheld: You handled that correctly, Mark Me: Thanks In case you were wondering - you can't see the end of downwind for 26 from the end of 8 - there are trees in the way. I was at about 45 knots (rotation at 60) in a Warrior when I decided to abort.

I still made the 'midfield' taxiway (really at about 2000 feet going that way) and was clear. There's a lesson in there, Mark. There's the odd idiot out there, and there's also the case where we screw up and call the wrong runway number -- I'll bet everyone on this board has done that at least once, and/or called left traffic when we meant right, etc. You can't assume that because 8 has been in use that someone won't land on 26, particularly in calm winds (26 is the preferred runway). You may also get someone on the VOR A approach who may want to do a straight-in to 26. YMMV, but the mantra I was taught (and still use), is to call out and scan for traffic: downwind, base, final, opposite traffic (in a heli looking for airplanes, in an airplane looking for helis), and then opposite end of the runway.