NEW GROUNDS FOR SURFACE GUIDANCE

The FAA's draft surface movement guidance and control system (SMGCS) advisory circular requires all U.S. airports to prepare a plan for operations when the runway visual range falls below 400 meters. Surface movement radar must be installed and operational for operations to continue when visual range falls below 200 meters, though "alternative technologies that allow ATC to establish the geographic position of all aircraft and vehicles" may be used for 200-400 meters. The airport surface detection equipment (ASDE-3) radar currently being installed at 35 U.S. airports can track targets and display them with an overlaid airport map, but it cannot identify aircraft or vehicles, and installations have been delayed by the problem of multipath returns creating false targets on the display.

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  Jane's Information Group

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• Authors:
  • Fitzsimons, B
• Publication Date: 1996-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 27-28
• Serial:
  • Jane's Airport Review
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: Jane's Information Group
  • ISSN: 0954-7649

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft guidance systems; Airport capacity; Airport surface traffic control; Ground transportation; Guidance systems; Radar vehicle detectors; Traffic congestion
• Candidate Terms: Airport congestion
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Terminals and Facilities; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00724675
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 21 1996 12:00AM