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3 Runway Capacity Example - Air Transportation Systems Laboratory

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Problem Description• The airport to be studied in this problem is shown in Figure 1• The airport has two 9,000 foot runways with a configurationshown in the Figure 1• The airport has an airport surveillance radar (ASR) whichtracks aircraft up to 60 miles form the airport site• Tables 1 and 2 show the typical ATC separations at theairport under IMC conditions• Tables 3 and 4 show the separations under VMC conditions• The airport has the following technical parameters: a) in-traildelivery error of 16 seconds, b) departure-arrival separationfor both VMC and IMC conditions is 2 nautical miles, c)probability of violation is 5%• Arriving aircraft are “vectored” by ATC to the final approachfix (see Figure) located 7 miles from the runway thresholdVirginia Tech - <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Transportation</strong> <strong>Systems</strong> <strong>Laboratory</strong>2

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