This report develops establishment criteria for Airport Surface Detection Equipment (ASDE-3) radar. ASDE's operational effectiveness must be considered primarily during periods of instrument flight rule (IFR) low visibility and during the busy hours after sunset when the visibility conditions are visual flight rule (VFR). Controllers rarely refer to ASDE during the daylight hours when the entire airport is visible, and most indicate this would be the case regardless of the type and quality of the equipment. However, during periods of reduced visibility ASDE can assist the controllers by providing increased safety in the movement of aircraft while also expediting departures. Arrival rate is also aided under the same circumstances by providing positive assurance of nonoccupancy of runways by ground vehicles as well as aircraft. This analysis is the basis for the ASDE criteria that are published in Airway Planning Standard Number One. Based on a benefit versus cost analysis, the following establishment criteria have been developed: The airport has a Category III runway; or The airport has 180,000 or more annual itinerant operations, of which 100,000 or more are annual certificated route air carrier operations. (Author)
Establishment Criteria for ASDE-3 (Airport Surface Detection Equipment)
1975
56 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Air Transportation , Radiofrequency Detection , Radar scanning , Airport radar systems , Cost analysis , Operational effectiveness , Passenger aircraft , Instrument flight , Runways , Visibility , Ground vehicles , Sunset , Visual flight rules , Trade off analysis , Costs , Benefits , ASDE(Airport Surface Detection Equipment) , NTISDODXA
ASDE-3 - a new airport surface detection equipment surveillance radar
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