FAA Office of
Airport Safety and
Standards Update
Presented to: ACI
By: Michael J. O’Donnell, Director
FAA Office of Airport Safety and Standards,
Washington D.C.
Date: March 6, 2013
Federal Aviation
Administration
FAA 150 Series Work Plan in FY 2012 & 2013
• Published 13 Advisory Circular (AC) Updates in FY12 –
Exceeded Goal of 12 ACs
• Also Published 4 Engineering Briefs in FY12:
• EB #89 Taxiway Nomenclature Convention
• EB #87 Heliport Perimeter Lighting
• EB #67D LED Lighting
• EB #78 Linear Equations for Taxiway Separations
• FY13 Goal is to publish 12 Advisory Circulars
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Published ACs in FY 2012
FY12 AAS Advisory Circulars Published
AC
Short Title
Completed
150/5200-36
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Qualifications for Wildlife Biologist Conducting Wildlife
Hazard Assessments and Training Curriculums for
Airport Personnel Involved in Controlling Wildlife
Hazards on Airports
1
150/5220-26
Airport Ground Vehicle Automatic Dependent
Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B) Out Squitter
Equipment
2
3
150/5200-30C
4 150/5300-13
150/5220-21B
5
150/5220-22A
Airport Winter Safety And Operations
1
Airport Design CHG 18 (OEI)
1
Guide Specification for Devices Used to Board Airline
Passengers with Mobility Impairments
1
Engineered Materials Arresting Systems (EMAS) for
Aircraft Overruns
6
1
7 150/5300-13A
150/5340-30E
Airport Design
1
Design and Installation Details for Airport Visual Aids
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1
150/5345-43G
Specification for Obstruction Lighting Equipment
9
1
150/5345-53D
Airport Lighting Equipment Certification Program
10
1
11 150/5390-2C
150/5230-4B
12
150/5210-25
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Heliport Design
1
Aircraft Fuel Storage, Handling, Training, and
Dispensing on Airports
1
Airport Vehicle Runway Incursion Warning System
(RIWS)
1
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AC Work Plan in FY 2013
FY13 AC Plan (Prioritized Order)
Number
150/5370-10F
150/5300-13 Chg X
150/5220-20
150/5320-12D
150/5300-13 Chg X
150/5300-13 Chg X
150/5345-42F
150/5360-12E
150/5395-1
150/5345-7E
150/5300-14B
150/5345-27D
150/5370-14A
150/5335-5B
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150/5300-18B
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150/5300-19
150/5320-5D
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150/5380-6B
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Standards for Specifying Construction of Airports
Airport Design, Parachute Landing Area Standard
Airport Snow and Ice Control Equipment
Measurement, Construction, and Maintenance of Skid Resistant Airport Pavement Surfaces
Airport Design, Consolidated Airport Design Surface
Airport Design, OEI Surface
Specification for Airport Light Bases, Transformer Housings, Junction Boxes, and Accessories
Airport Signing and Graphics
Seaplane Bases
Specification for L-824 Underground Electrical Cable for Airport Lighting Circuits
Design of Aircraft Deicing Facilities
Specification for Wind Cone Assemblies
Hot Mix Asphalt Paving Handbook
Standardized Method of Reporting Airport Pavement Strength - PCN
General Guidance And Specifications For Submission Of Aeronautical Surveys To NGS: Field
Data Collection And Geographic Information System (GIS) Standards
Airport Data and Information Program
Surface Drainage Design
Segmented Circle Airport Marker System
Guidelines and Procedures for Maintenance of Airport Pavements
Runway Length Requirements for Airport Design
Architectural, Engineering, and Planning Consultant Services for Airport Grant Projects
Date
9/29/2011
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* FY13 Business Plan goal is to publish 12 ACs out of the work plan
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FAA AC 150/5300-13A Principal Changes
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Improved taxiway design to mitigate runway incursions
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New Taxiway Design Group (TDG) concept to improve fillet design
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New language on runway protection zone
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Intersecting and non-intersecting runway geometry
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Runway Design Code (RDC)
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Wind rose
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Aircraft characteristics database
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FAA AC 150/5300-13A Highlights
• New PDF Format – searchable with electronic
bookmarks and hyperlinks
• Improved and consolidated tables
• New and Improved figures
• Pulled Appendices into Chapters
• Revised and organized Chapters
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Airport Design Focus to Reduce Runway
Incursions and Increase Situational Awareness
• FAA Engineering Brief No. 75
– Incorporation of Runway Incursion Prevention into Taxiway and Apron
Design – 11/08/07
– http://www.faa.gov/airports/engineering/engineering_briefs/
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Avoid This!
Taxiway / Runway - Interface
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Taxiway crossing a High Speed exit
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(d) Taxiway intersecting two or more runways
Aligned taxiway (Prohibited)
Direct access from a ramp/ terminal to the runway
High-speed exits leading directly onto another runway
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Entrance Taxiway
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Avoid wide expanses beyond taxiway design tables
Islands provide location for elevated signage
Standard orientation is 90 degrees
Standard length to accommodate longest fuselage
Curve “outer-edge” to mitigate wrong runway landing
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(g) "Y" Shaped taxiway crossing a runway
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Improve Taxiway Operational Use
• Avoid using runways as taxiways
• Use taxiing strategies to reduce active runway crossing
• Correct runway incursion “Hot Spots”
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Runway Protection Zone (RPZ)
 Definition: To enhance the protection of people and
property on the ground.
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Central Portion of the Runway Protection Zone (RPZ)
Controlled Activity Area of the RPZ
RPZ may be mitigated by Declared Distances
When threshold is displaced there may be two RPZ on Runway End;
Approach and Departure
 Permissible RPZ use listed in 13A:
 Farming that meets the minimum buffers as shown in Table 3-10 of 13A.
 Irrigation channels as long as they do not attract birds.
 Airport service roads, as long as they are not public roads and are
directly controlled by the airport operator.
 Underground facilities, as long as they meet other design criteria, such
as RSA requirements, as applicable.
 Unstaffed NAVAIDs and facilities, such as equipment for airport
facilities that are considered fixed-by-function in regard to the RPZ
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RPZ Evaluation Process
• The FAA Office of Airports must evaluate and approve the proposed
land use that is not on the permissible list.
• We anticipate that future guidance will be issued by the FAA to
assist in the evaluation of land use within RPZs.
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Parachute Landing Area (PLA) Draft
Standard Proposed
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Draft Change 19 to 150/5300-13
Proposed Size
Proposed Location
Recommended Marking
Proposed Application
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Parachute Landing Area (PLA) Review
Coordination
• Pre-coordination and review with USPA
• Coordinated in 2012 and received
comments from;
– Other FAA Lines of Business
– FAA ARP Regional and ADO
– All Industry
• FAA ARP working with AFS on a revised
standard based on all comments received
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Airports GIS (AGIS)
• AGIS provides airports with a single GIS data
portal.
• It provides an efficient means of sharing data
between airports and the FAA.
• It reduces duplicative and disparate data
sources.
• It supports operational improvements planned
for NextGen, which requires standardized,
verified and consistent digital airport data.
• AGIS now has over 1,300 surveys in the system.
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Airports GIS
• e-ALP Module;
• Excellent progress since pilot program
• e-ALP beta version was completed in FY12
• In FY13 - working with some select airports that
have the necessary data to refine the module
• Modifications of Standards (MOS) Module;
• Providing availability in FY13
• Electronic submissions, quicker responses
• Benefits of graphic tools for MOS review
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Airports GIS Outreach
• We are working with industry to get the word
out about AGIS, its benefits and how it works
• We have developed a three-tier online training
program to introduce AGIS. Video training will
be posted soon.
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Engineering Brief 89 – Taxiway
Nomenclature
• Related to Signage AC 150/5340-18F, EB Released
on March 29, 2012
• Applicability: Use for new development projects,
changes to ALP or airport signage plan – gradual
phase-in
• Principal Changes:
• Not allow future naming using double-different
letters
• Other than high-traffic crossing taxiways, taxiway
name changes when crossing runway
• Emphasize use of alpha-numeric naming for
taxiways touching runway and ramps
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Engineering Brief 89
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Engineering Brief 67D – LEDs
• Contains additional specification requirements for
LED lighting
• Provides ability for Airport Sponsor to specify either
incandescent or LED lighting without a life-cycle cost
comparison
• Accompanies PGL 12-02 which contains AIP
eligibility guidance;
• LED obstruction lights, LED approach lights and
LED high-intensity runway edge lights are not AIP
eligible at this time. Research is being done on
issues with Enhanced Flight Vision and Night
Vision Imagery systems
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RUNWAY SAFETY AREA (RSA)
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
• Developed in 2000 to Improve Runways that did
not meet FAA Design Standards
• When the Program Began:
– 30% of RSAs met Full FAA Design Standards
– 55% of RSAs met 90% of the FAA Design Standards
• Many airports are developed on land with limited
space, so it is difficult to improve RSAs to meet
changing standards.
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Recent Overrun Accidents
Quito, Ecuador (November 2007)
Chicago
Chicago Midway,
Midway, USA
USA
(December 2005)
Toronto, Canada (August 2005)
Tegucigalpa, Honduras (May 2008)
Brussels, Belgium (May 2008)
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RUNWAY SAFETY AREA (RSA)
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
RSA LAYOUT AND DIMENSIONS
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RSA Length:
240’ to 1,000’
RSA Width:
120’ to 500’
• RSAs for runways that accommodate large aircraft
are typically 1000’ x 500’
– Must be clear of objects, structures, highways, bodies of water,
drainage swales and navigational aides that are not fixed-byfunction
– Surface Grade not to exceed 3%
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RUNWAY SAFETY AREA (RSA)
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
RSA IMPROVEMENT OPTIONS
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Construct or expand the RSA
Modify or Relocate the Runway
Install an EMAS
Remove objects that are not fixed by
function
• Implement Declared Distances
• Any combination of the above
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FAA Runway Safety Area Program Progress
RSA
Improvements:
2000 - 2011
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502
2012 - 2015
• 108
GOAL
• 636
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RUNWAY SAFETY AREA (RSA)
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
•Actual and Planned Priority RSA Improvments
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•70
•67
•61
•60
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•RSA Improvements
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•20
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RUNWAY SAFETY AREA (RSA)
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
ENGINEERED MATERIALS ARRESTING
SYSTEMS
• DEFINITION – A system consisting of a light
concrete bed placed at the end of runways that
consists of “high energy absorbing materials of
selected strength, which will reliably and
predictably crush under the weight of an aircraft.”
(AC No. 150/5220-22A)
• EMAS beds are intended to SAFELY and quickly
stop aircraft that overrun runways with minimal or
no damage to the aircraft
• Standard design arrests critical aircraft at 70 knots
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Charleston Runway 5 Departure End
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Successful EMAS Capture Saves 34 Pax and Crew
EMAS capture of a Bombardier CRJ-200
Regional Jet at Charleston, WV January 2010
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Key West, FL – Cessna Citation overran Rwy 9
Look…
during landingAonCloser
Nov 3, 2011
Cessna Citation, Key West International Airport, November 3, 2011
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RUNWAY SAFETY AREA (RSA)
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
CURRENT EMAS STATUS
• 66 EMAS installations at 45 certificated U.S.
airports since 1996
• 8 aircraft arrests have been
• Additional EMAS installations planned through
2015
• FAA has determined that a future vendor’s Norsk
Glassgjenvinning (NGG) product meets the FAA
EMAS Advisory Circular
• NGG is currently working on securing a business
partner and then will plan to enter the market
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Thank you!
Comments and Questions
Michael J. O’Donnell
Director (AAS-1)
FAA Office of Airport Safety & Standards
Washington, DC
202-267-8776
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