airport configuration

The relative layout of component parts of an airport, such as the runway-taxiway-terminal arrangement. The illustration gives an airport configuration with respect to runways.

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The original airport configuration in Jeddah was only designed to support an annual capacity of 7 million passengers, but

Jeddah airport expansion remains on track despite Saudi labour losses

The most common causal factors of runway incursions include: complex airport configuration, low-visibility conditions, cockpit-management issues and non-tower airport operations.

Runway-incursion: awareness

It completes a range of products designed for each type of aircraft, airport configuration and specific user operating conditions.

Innovations in airport servicing equipment at the Airport Show

The tool considers numerous constraints and factors affecting departure sequence including flight departure time, traffic flow constraints, wake vortex spacing rules and current airport configuration. 10/5/2009

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* How do changes to the physical airport configuration affect my staffing levels?

Streamlining airport operations: Nancy Ornelas, product manager for the Streamline resource management systems at Sabre Airline Solutions explains how technology can fully optimise your satff resources

Knowing the airport configuration will help make sure you don't head for the wrong runway after you break out.

Approaches in a hurry: sometimes you've got to get set up for the approach at lightning speed. The secret is to pretend there's no hurry at all

To directly address issues involving human performance for a future airport configuration, human-in-the-loop simulation is the only way to validate assumptions in advance and reduce the risk of an inaccurate cost-benefit analysis.

ATC Sim--costs and benefits: following on from the 'Real-Time ATC Simulation' article in our September issue, Nancy Dorighi of the NASA Ames Research Center looks at the costs and unique benefits of Real-time Airport Simulation'

In a general notice (GENOT), the FAA says that air traffic managers must review the impact that airport configuration and local conditions may have on TIPH operations, and prepare a facility directive that prescribes local procedures.

NATCA says hold short will fall short

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