Master Plan Update (pdf) - Lansing/Capital City Airport

Capital Region Airport Authority
Capital City Airport Master Plan Update
procedures. Non-precision and precision instrument approaches are controlled approaches and
are monitored by the local air traffic jurisdiction. Non-precision approaches differ from precision
approaches in that they only provide horizontal guidance, while precision instrument approaches
provide both horizontal and vertical guidance information. With the addition of vertical guidance
information, precision approaches enable aircraft operations in lower visibility and cloud heights.
The Airport is served by a variety of published instrument approaches utilizing visual, nonprecision,
and precision approach technology. These instrument approach procedures are
identified in Table 1-5.
Table 1-5
PUBLISHED INSTRUMENT APPROACHES
Runway Approach
NAVAID Facility or
Waypoint
Approach
Technology
Inbound Heading
(degrees)
10R ILS Localizer I-CPQ Precision 096
28L ILS Localizer I-LAN Precision 276
6 VOR / GPS Lansing Non-Precision 057
24 VOR / GPS Lansing Non-Precision 276
28L NDB / GPS ARTDA NDB Non-Precision 276
Source: U.S. Terminal Procedures, U.S. Government Flight Information Publication
1.3.5.4 National Air Traffic Control System
The FAA is responsible for providing a safe, secure, and efficient global aviation system. To fulfill
this responsibility the Air Traffic Services Division of the FAA oversees the control and supervision
of activity within the National Airspace System to provide air traffic control. The Air Traffic Services
operational responsibilities include assurance of aircraft separation, air traffic management,
dissemination of aviation information, management and maintenance of airways and NAVAID
facilities, approach to landing procedures, and aircraft search and rescue.
Control within the National Airspace System is maintained by incorporating a network of air traffic
control facilities, which include flight service stations (FSS), air traffic control towers (ATCT),
terminal radar approach control (TRACON), and air route traffic control centers. FSS and ATCT
are primarily involved with the coordination of air traffic operations within the terminal environment,
TRACON facilities coordinate air traffic in the approach and departure segments of flight, and air
route traffic control centers coordinate air traffic operations within the en route segment. More
detailed information regarding the National Air Traffic Control System can be found in Appendix E.
1.3.5.5 Airport Air Traffic Control
The Lansing Automated FSS (AFSS) is currently the only station located in the State of Michigan.
Relocated to just south of the main terminal apron, the Lansing AFSS opened on December 3,
1986, after the FAA initiated a nation-wide consolidation of FSS. The station provides weather
briefings for pilots in the lower peninsula of Michigan. Each position within the station has a
weather terminal that allows access to all the information necessary to complete a briefing, record
VFR and IFR flight plans, and obtain weather graphics for current meteorological conditions.
The federally run Lansing ATCT employs controllers who fulfill the air traffic control functions of
ground control, tower control, and updating the automated terminal information service (ATIS).
The ATCT operates 24 hours per day to control the movements of all aircraft within a five-mile
radius of Capital City Airport up to an altitude of 2,500 feet AGL. Additionally, these controllers are
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