Most airports have multiple runways. To identify runways, they are given a number indicat- ing the direction of the runway. Such a runway number is obtained by dividing the heading of the runway in degrees by ten, rounding the result, and optionally prefixing it with a ‘0’ if the result has only a single digit. For example, a runway with a heading of 82° is indicated by the number 08.If you are paying attention, you might think “a runway can be used in both directions, and therefore has two headings, but it is only assigned one runway number.” You are correct: normally a runway is identified by two numbers, based on the direction in which the runway is used. To simplify matters, we only concern ourselves with the smallest of these two num- bers, except if it is zero; we then use 18 instead. The runway numbers thus range from 01 to 18.
Now, you might think, “what if two runways have the same heading?” In that case, the characte