Preparing Busy General Aviation Airports for Next Generation Technologies
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Preparing Busy General Aviation Airports for Next Generation Technologies May 2013 2013PSRC Preparing Busy Airports for NextGen Technologies The preparation of this report was financed in part through a planning grant from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The grant was provided under Section 505 of the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982, as amended by the Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Acts of 1987 and 1990, and the Airport Noise and Capacity Act of 1990. The contents do not necessarily reflect the official views or policy of the FAA. Acceptance of this report by the FAA under the terms of the scope of work and the grant agreement does not in any way constitute a commitment on the part of the United States to participate in any policy, plan, or development depicted herein, nor does it indicate that the proposed policy, plan, or development is environmentally acceptable in accordance with appropriate public laws. For additional information or to obtain copies of the Preparing Busy General Aviation Airports for NextGen Technologies report, go to www.psrc.org/transportation/airtrans/nextgen/ or contact the Puget Sound Regional Council’s Information Center at 1-206-464-7532 or [email protected] PSRC Preparing Busy Airports for NextGen Technologies NextGen Project Advisory Committee (PAC) Members Agency Bill Ayer CEO, Alaska Air Group (retired) Sarah Dalton FAA - Airports Division Manager Carolyn Read FAA - Northwest Mountain Region Charlie Howard Puget Sound Regional Council Chris Pomeroy WSDOT Aviation (former) Chuck Kegley Advanced Aviation Services, Inc. - PNBAA Board Deb Wallace Pierce County Airport and Ferry Administrator Dick Taylor Boeing Test Pilot (retired) Fred Mitchell FAA - Western Flight Procedures Office Gary Molyneaux King County International Airport (Boeing Field) Gene McBrayer Museum of Flight, Exxon Corp. (retired) John Pricco Boeing Company - 737 Field Operations and Delivery John Shambaugh WSDOT (former WSDOT Aviation Division) Karen Mitchell FAA - Seattle Tracon Kent Duffy FAA - NextGen specialist (FAA Headquarters) Luke Lysen The Flight Academy (Boeing Field) - Cirrus specialist and pilot Mark Wallace FAA - NextGen Specialist - Air Traffic Organization Norm LeFevre FAA - NextGen Branch Manager Peter Anderson Galvin Flying Service (Boeing Field) Reba Gilman CEO, Principal, Aviation High School Rob Hodgman Senior Aviation Planner, WSDOT Aviation Division Ryan Zulauf Renton Municipal Airport Stan Shepherd Port of Seattle (Sea-Tac International Airport) Steve Fulton Alaska Airlines (retired) – Naverus / General Electric Steve Taylor President - Boeing Business Jets – NBAA Project Team Agency Stephen Kiehl Puget Sound Regional Council – Project Manager Deepa Parashar FAA Don Larson FAA Charles Riordan SeaTec – Project Manager Peter Morton SeaTec Neil Rood SeaTec Don Ferrel SeaTec 2 Preparing Busy Airports for NextGen Technologies PSRC Contents Chapter 1 Background and Project Purpose ........................................................................ 5 Scope of the Project ........................................................................................................................... 7 Chapter 2 NextGen Overview ................................................................................................. 9 Chapter 3 The Details of NextGen ....................................................................................... 11 NextGen Communication ................................................................................................................ 11 System Wide Information Management (SWIM). ..................................................................... 11 NextGen Data Communications ................................................................................................ 12 Next Generation Network Enabled Weather (NNEW). ............................................................. 13 NAS Voice Switch (NVS) ......................................................................................................... 16 NextGen Navigation ........................................................................................................................ 18 Wide Area Augmentation System .............................................................................................. 18 WAAS Benefits to Airports ....................................................................................................... 19 Advantages of WAAS-enabled Approaches .............................................................................. 19 Local Area Augmentation Systems ............................................................................................ 20 Performance Based Navigation Systems .................................................................................... 20 Advantages of RNP procedures: ................................................................................................ 21 Airport Managements’ Role ....................................................................................................... 21 Determining Minimums ............................................................................................................. 22 Survey Requirements ................................................................................................................. 22 Procedure Application Process .................................................................................................. 23 NextGen Surveillance ...................................................................................................................... 24 Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) ............................................................. 24 Chapter 4 Regional Airport System ........................................................................................ 28 A. Snohomish County Airports ....................................................................................................... 30 Darrington Municipal Airport .................................................................................................... 30 Arlington Municipal Airport ...................................................................................................... 31 Paine Field (GA reliever) ........................................................................................................... 32 Harvey Field (GA reliever) ........................................................................................................ 33 First Air ...................................................................................................................................... 34 Sky Harbor ................................................................................................................................. 35 B. King County Airports ................................................................................................................. 36 Vashon Municipal ...................................................................................................................... 36 Auburn Airport (GA reliever) .................................................................................................... 37 King County International Airport - Boeing Field (GA reliever) .............................................. 38 Renton Municipal (GA reliever) ................................................................................................ 39 Will Rogers/Wiley Post Memorial Sea Plane Base.................................................................... 40 Crest Airpark .............................................................................................................................. 40 Kenmore Air Harbor .................................................................................................................. 41 3 PSRC Preparing Busy Airports for NextGen Technologies Skykomish State ......................................................................................................................... 41 Bandera State ............................................................................................................................. 42 Seattle Seaplanes (Lake Union Seaplane) .................................................................................. 43 C. Pierce County Airports .............................................................................................................. 44 American Lake ........................................................................................................................... 44 Pierce County – Thun Field ....................................................................................................... 45 Tacoma Narrows ........................................................................................................................ 46 Spanaway ................................................................................................................................... 47 Swanson ..................................................................................................................................... 47 Ranger Creek.............................................................................................................................. 48 D. Kitsap County Airports .............................................................................................................. 49 Port Orchard ..............................................................................................................................