How many airports are in the NPIAS and what three types are included? ✔✔ 3,380 airports; 1) commercial service, 2) reliever, 3) select GA
What
... [Show More] are the three defining characteristics of commercial service airports? ✔✔ 1) open to the public 2) receive scheduled passenger service 3) 2,500 or more enplaned passenger per year
What type of airport has commercial service and over 10,000 annual enplanements? ✔✔ Primary airport
Primary airports are split into 4 categories, what are they and how are they defined? ✔✔ Large Hub (>1% of all US annual enplanements); Medium Hub (0.25% to 1%); Small Hub (0.05-0.25%); Non-Hub (10,000 to 0.05%)
How many enplanements characterize a non-primary commercial service airport? ✔✔ between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year
What characterizes a reliever airport? ✔✔ 1) open to the public; 2) 100 or more based aircraft or 25,000 annual operations
General aviation airports can be included in the NPIAS under what circumstances? ✔✔ If they have at least 10 locally based aircraft and are at least 20 miles from a NPIAS airport
What plan provides guidelines for an airport's capital development over a 20-year timeframe? ✔✔ Master Plan
What is the set of drawings that shows the airport's long-term development, updated in accordance with grant assurance number 29? ✔✔ Airport Layout Plans
Runway design standards are based on what three primary factors? ✔✔ 1) airplane design group (wingspan); 2) aircraft approach category (approach speed); 3) approach visibility minimums
Taxiway and taxilane design standards are based on what primary factor? ✔✔ airplane design group (wingspan)
How is airplane design group determined and categorized? ✔✔ Based on the aircraft's wingspan and tail height whichever is most restrictive; 6 categories, I thru VI, where I is the smallest/shortest and VI is the largest/tallest
How is aircraft approach category determined and categorized? ✔✔ Based on aircraft approach speed; 5 categories, A thru E, where A is the slowest and E is the fastest
What are the 6 categories of airplane design group? ✔✔ I (tail height <20', wingspan <49'); II (tail height 20 - <30', wingspan 49 - <79'); III (tail height 30 - <45'), wingsp [Show Less]