The downside to all of this concrete and an ability to land 1/2 mile away is you can lose your skills to think quickly should a flame out occur.

You also end up with the distracting dilema of when do we move to the other side of the runway to get away from the sun. Everyone has different ideas of at what point do we move the vehicles. This of course is very burdensome as the toilet is on the other side of the runway then(we have such terrible problems at this field)

Please notice this is said in total humor.

Ed