CEE 4674: Airport Planning and Design Spring 2012s

Assignment 4: Runway Obstacles and Wind Rose Analysis

Date Due: June 7, 2012 Instructor: Trani

Problem 1
A hotel chain approaches the Punta Cana Airport to build a 130-foot tall hotel on the northern side of runway 08-26 (see Figure
1).
a) Determine the minimum distance x required to build this hotel. For this analysis assume that the airport wants your input
using FAA regulations. They are doing the ICAO standards separately with another consultant. The Punta Cana airport has a
single 3,100 meter non-precision runway with visibility minimums as low as 3/4 mile. In the analysis check the following criteria:
• FAR Part 77 imaginary surfaces
• New FAA runway siting standards and,
• Geometric design distances explained in Chapters 2 and 3 of the FAA AC 150/5300.
b) Determine if a 75 foot tall tree located 3000 feet outside the airport property and aligned with the extension of runway
threshold 26 is an obstruction to navigation. State the imaginary surface checked in this analysis.

Figure 1. Proposed Hotel Location for Punta Cana International Airport. Runways and Taxiways
are Drawn to Scale. Proposed Hotel Location and Tree Location are not to Scale.

Problem 2

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A new airport in Las Vegas has been proposed to help relieve the existing Las Vegas International Airport (LAS). The airport is
expected to receive commercial traffic with the Boeing 787-900 Dreamliner as the critical aircraft. For this analysis use the FAA
Java application for wind rose available at: https://airports-gis.faa.gov/airportsgis/publicToolbox/windroseForm.jsp. Wind data
collected at the airport proposed site is shown in Table 1.
a) For the proposed airport, find the design crosswind component according to FAA criteria.
b) Find the optimal runway orientation for the runway (or runways) for the airport using the wind data provided in Table 1. Plot the
runway orientation vs. the coverage achieved for every runway orientation every 10 degrees and indicate the optimal runway
orientation in your plot. Show the resulting wind rose for the optimal solution indicating the coverage obtained using both runway
thresholds.
c) Find the percent of the time each runway end can be used if zero tailwind is allowed in the calculations.

Table 1. Wind Data for New Airport. Speeds are Shown in knots (i.e., nautical miles per hour) in
the Table Header.

Azimuth 0-3 4-6 7-10 11-16 17-21 22-27 28-33 33-40 41 and
(degrees) over

1 2 3 3 9 2 1 0 0 0
0 1 2 0 0
3 1 0

2 4 3 1 9 3 1 0 0 0
0 1 4 8 1 4 4
0 5 9

3 3 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 1 9 7
2 0 0

4 4 2 1 4 1 0 0 0 0
0 2 0 2 5 1
3 9 1

5 5 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 3 0 3
2 0 0

6 5 3 2 5 3 0 0 0 0
0 6 8 3 6
8 0 0

7 6 3 1 5 2 6 0 4 0
0 2 0 9 2 1
6 6 5

8 3 1 1 3 2 4 2 0 0
0 4 7 0 2 1
5 1 6

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 Azimuth 0-3 4-6 7-10 11-16 17-21 22-27 28-33 33-40 41 and
(degrees) over

9 2 2 9 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 3 2 4 1
0 3

1 2 1 8 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 3 2 6 3
0 6 0

1 3 2 8 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 2 3 4 0
0 0 0

1 2 2 1 4 1 0 0 0 0
2 8 3 4 5 3
0 7 0 5

1 4 2 1 8 3 1 0 0 0
3 1 1 2 6 3 2
0 5 0 9

1 4 5 1 7 2 1 8 0 0
4 5 0 4 6 5 2
0 7 8 2

1 5 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 0
5 2 7 4 0
0 4 7 3

1 3 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 0
6 9 8 8 2
0 0 5 2

1 1 1 1 1 6 0 0 0 0
7 4 8 9 1
0 8 6 1 4

1 1 2 1 1 1 4 0 0 0
8 3 9 5 9 2
0 1 9 1 0

1 2 4 2 1 2 0 0 0 0
9 6 2 0 0 1
0 7 6 4 8

2 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0
0 6 3 2 0 0
0 5 0 0 2

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 Azimuth 0-3 4-6 7-10 11-16 17-21 22-27 28-33 33-40 41 and
(degrees) over

2 1 3 2 6 1 1 0 0 0
1 7 3 1 7 5
0 7 2 0

2 3 2 1 1 3 0 1 0 0
2 0 1 6 0 4
0 0 0 5 4

2 2 2 1 7 3 1 0 0 0
3 8 1 2 4 1
0 6 0 3

2 8 2 1 1 3 0 0 0 0
4 5 0 9 0 5
0 2 8 6

2 5 1 1 8 2 4 0 0 0
5 6 8 9 1 7
0 5 8

2 2 1 1 9 8 0 0 0 0
6 6 3 8 3
0 2 1

2 2 2 1 9 2 0 0 0 0
7 3 2 4 4 9
0 6 1 1

2 1 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 0
8 4 8 5 0 0
0 8 5 4 1

2 1 2 1 7 8 0 0 0 0
9 9 2 8 7
0 8 7 5

3 1 2 1 8 1 0 0 0 0
0 7 2 6 7 0
0 9 7 7

3 2 1 1 5 8 0 0 0 0
1 6 1 0 0
0 7 7

3 2 1 8 3 3 1 0 0 0
2 7 7 4 6
0 9 8

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 Azimuth 0-3 4-6 7-10 11-16 17-21 22-27 28-33 33-40 41 and
(degrees) over

3 2 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 0
3 4 4 3 3
0 5 6 1

3 2 1 9 2 0 0 0 0 0
4 8 9 9 2
0 9 5

3 1 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 0
5 2 6 2 8
0 9 9 8

3 3 2 2 1 3 4 0 0 0
6 1 3 1 0 6 2
0 0 0 1 7

Problem 3
You are given an old Wind Rose for the Punta Cana airport as shown in Figure 2.

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Figure 2. Old Wind Rose for Punta Cana Airport. Each Concentric Ring is 5 knots. The Dark
Circle in the Middle is the Center of the Wind Rose. Values in Wind Rose are the Percent of
Time the Wind Blows from the Given Azimuthal Direction and at a Given Speed.

a) Find the ICAO critical crosswind component needed to design the runway orientation of the Punta Cana airport if the
runway is 3,100 meters and the largest aircraft operating at the airport is the Boeing 747-400.
b) Determine the optimal orientation of the runway if this was a new airport site with the wind data provided.
c) Assuming runway 08-26 is the only runway used in the future, find the percent of the time the design crosswind
determined in part (a) is exceeded at the airport.

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