This was for the benefit of one plane ride, the characters are in this town for a couple pages, and then this is never needed again.The Seven Daughters of Eve is a 2001 semi-fictional book by Bryan Sykes that presents the science of human origin in Africa and their dispersion to a general audience. So what had been conceived as an emergency landing site had become something of a hub, where planes tended to land just because it was convenient and predictable. Every flight plan had to include a possible emergency landing on the artificial floe of Qayaq, which in turn had to be fully capable of hosting big airplanes. In any case, planes had to be babied, given that high-capacity turbofan engines were extraordinarily difficult to make. Typically these lay on the outskirts of Cradle sockets. They were too large to manufacture in the ring and transport down to the surface and so they, and other large productions such as arks and ships, had to be built in factories on the surface. Airplanes were expensive, even more so than they had been on Old Earth.
Any pilot meaning to fly north or south across the sixtieth parallel, in the zone bracketed by 166 Thirty on the west and the Rockies on the east, had to make allowances in the flight plan for the likelihood that their path would abruptly be barred by a plume of volcanic ash hurled into the stratosphere by any of a hundred active volcanoes lying upwind. West of here, all the way to 166 Thirty and beyond, the chain of volcanoes formerly known as the Kenai and Alaska Peninsulas and the Aleutian chain were in a nearly continual state of eruption. The Qayaq airfield had to exist because of the Ashwall.
Here is an example tails why a runway is needed in town that the MCs go to: This made the book drag out much longer than needed, and really hurt the pacing. Usually long paragraphs that should have been a couple sentences. These explanations were often on things that had little to no bearing on the story, but didn't help the world building much either. I really liked the premiss of this book, but it really got in the way of itself with overly detailed (and what felt like rambling) tangents.
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