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Hogeschool van Amsterdam Domein Techniek Aviation Studies Hogeschool van Amsterdam Domein Techniek Aviation Studies 2011 – 2012 Project Airport Operations Project group AE Nick Antwerpen Joey Bakker Kevin van der Hart Bart van der Heijden Frank Mars Lars Veling Daniël van der Weijden Project guide D. V. Kerstens Date 23 May 2012 Airport consultancy group AE Hogeschool van Amsterdam Domein Techniek Aviation Studies Summary Project group AE has been working on an advice to the Dutch government, on the best possible future solution for the growing shortage of capacity at airports in the Netherlands. To fully understand this problem and to provide the government with the best possible solution, general airport theory is first researched. Air traffic is generally divided in Civil aviation and military aviation. Civil aviation is subdivided in Commercial aviation (CA) and General aviation (GA). Aircraft can fly under two types of flight rules. Visual Flight Rules (VFR) are flight rules based on navigation by landmarks on the ground, instrument Flight Rules (IFR) is based on navigation by using the instruments on board an aircraft. Airspace is divided in different categories, ranging from Class A to G. Class A airspace is the most strict airspace and class G the least. Airspace is further divided in upper airspace, CTA, TMA, and CTR. At an airport, various services and facilities are present. These services and facilities are divided in passenger and cargo services/facilities, runway and taxiways, flight facilities and navigation facilities and its adherent services. Airports are subject to various laws and regulations. The three most important regulation are noise laws, air safety regulations and regulations for buildings around an airport. The four airports in this research are Amsterdam Schiphol airport, Eindhoven airport, Rotterdam airport and Lelystad airport. Amsterdam Schiphol airport handled 420.250 flight movements in 2011 and is expected to grow to 803.500 movements in 2030. This growth will not cause problems with the capacity of 1.400.000 flight movements. Eindhoven airport handled approximately 22.000 flight movements. In 2030, a total number of 44.000 flight movements. The capacity of Eindhoven airport is 120.000 movements and will not cause problems. Rotterdam airport dealt with 53.900 movements in 2011 and is expected to grow to 103.100 movements. Its capacity is 100.000 movements, this capacity will be exceeded. Lelystad airport handled 134.000 flight movements in 2011. In 2030, 256.200 movements are expected. This is a large excess of the capacity of 100.000 movements. With this information, a multi airport system plan can be constructed. The surplus of flight movements at Lelystad airport will be distributed to Eindhoven airport, Rotterdam airport and a new VFR airport. The surplus of IFR flights at Rotterdam will be moved to Schiphol airport. This MASP ensures a good development of the Dutch aviation and expansion is possible in the future. The new VFR airport that will be build should handle approximately 66.700 flight movements. Three possible locations for this airport are Lage Mierde, Dinteloord and Soesterberg. By looking at various aspects of advantages of each airport, Soesterberg is chosen as the best location for a VFR airport. Soesterberg airport is able to handle at least 67.000 flight movements each year. Soesterberg is an old military airport and can be relatively cheap renovated to a modern VFR airport. It will have two main runways, one concrete and one grass runway. In addition, a small grass runway for glider pilots will be created. The main entrance will be to the west of the airport and the aircraft hangars will be in between the two runways. Soesterberg airport will have the opportunity to expand when a larger capacity is required. It can even be reconstructed for IFR traffic. Therefore, a recommendation is given for this multi airport system plan, which incorporates renovating Soesterberg airport, with the discussed airport master plan. Airport consultancy group AE Hogeschool van Amsterdam Domein Techniek Aviation Studies Table of Content Preface ..................................................................................................................................................... 1 Chapter 1: Basic theory ........................................................................................................................... 2 1.1: Air traffic ....................................................................................................................................... 2 1.2: Airspace ........................................................................................................................................ 3 1.3: Airport .......................................................................................................................................... 5 1.4: General Legislation ....................................................................................................................... 8 Chapter 2: Dutch airports ...................................................................................................................... 13 2.1: Expected growth ........................................................................................................................ 13 2.2: Schiphol airport .......................................................................................................................... 13 2.3: Eindhoven airport ....................................................................................................................... 15 2.4: Rotterdam – The Hague Airport ................................................................................................. 16 2.5: Lelystad airport ........................................................................................................................... 17 2.6: Multi airport system plan ........................................................................................................... 19 Chapter 3: Design options ..................................................................................................................... 22 3.1: Requirements ............................................................................................................................. 22 3.2: Location ...................................................................................................................................... 22 3.3: Layout ......................................................................................................................................... 26 3.4: Conclusion .................................................................................................................................. 29 Chapter 4: Airport elaboration .............................................................................................................. 30 4.1: Certification ................................................................................................................................ 31 4.2: Facilities ...................................................................................................................................... 32 4.3: Expansion Possibilities ................................................................................................................ 33 4.4 Financial aspect ........................................................................................................................... 33 4.5: Recommendation ....................................................................................................................... 36 List of terms ........................................................................................................................................... 37 Literature list ......................................................................................................................................... 39 Airport consultancy group AE Hogeschool van Amsterdam Domein Techniek Aviation Studies Preface The aviation market is growing rapidly due to further growing businesses and the need that people want to travel to foreign countries. In Holland the aviation grows quickly also, but the Dutch aviation has his limits due to the few airports and required space needed for this growth. The Dutch government has contacted Aviation Project-group AE to investigate the substantial growth in the Dutch aviation and look for possibilities to take advantage of the upcoming growth. The estimated average growth will be 3,47 percent a year so there will be a limit within these years and aviation project-group has to investigate what the growth until 2030 will be and on which elements the growth has more influence and which not. Here fore they have to write a plan to redistribute the flight movements between the already existing airports and on these number design a new extra airport to enhance the growth in the Dutch aviation. The aviation project-group AE consists of seven young men that have different knowledge in the aviation scene to investigate this growth and will therefore have a substantial amount of potential to form a redistribution and create a new design of the necessary airport that will be designed. Project-group AE will be assisted by Engineer Kerstens and can consult him or many documents to have the right sources and collected knowledge. To understand the complete investigation and its terminology the basics of an airport and its adherent features