Purpose and Scope
These pages contain the AIXM coding guidelines for the minimum and conditional data items of the AIP data set for the Runway & the FATO subjects.
PANS-AIM defines Runway as follows:
A defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft. (Annex 14)
PANS-AIM defines FATO as follows:
Final approach and take-off area. A defined area over which the final phase of the approach manoeuvre to hover or landing is completed and from which the take-off manoeuvre is commenced. Where the FATO is to be used by helicopters operated in performance class 1, the defined area includes the rejected take-off area available.
AIP context
In an AIP, corresponding Runway/FATO information is published in the following sections:
- AD 2.12 Runway physical characteristics
AD 2.13 Declared distances
- AD 2.16 Helicopter landing area
AD 3.12 Heliport data
- AD 3.13 Declared distances
AIXM Model Overview
Coding Examples
The figure shows a simple example of a Runway with designator "RWY-09L/27R" situated at "EADD".
It is composed of the designators of the runway directions.
The runway has a nominal length of "2800 Meters" and a nominal width of "45 meters".
Each runway direction has a true and magnetic bearing defined.
Each runway direction has also a defined runway centre line point, viz. the threshold with its elevation.
The figure below shows the encoding of some of the Runway properties described above in AIXM 5.1.
Coding examples can be found in the DONLON AIXM 5.1.1 AIP data set file:
| No. | Description | XPath Expression |
|---|---|---|
| RWY-EX-01 | Runway (with strip) | //aixm:RunwayTimeSlice[@gml:id ='RWY_EADD_09L_27R'] |
| RWY-EX-02 | Runway | //aixm:RunwayTimeSlice[@gml:id ='RWY_EADD_09R_27L'] |
| RWY-EX-03 | FATO | //aixm:RunwayTimeSlice[@gml:id ='RWY_EADH_FATO_03_21'] |