Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Engineering - Safety
Engineering, grade: 1,0, University of Applied Sciences Wildau (Wildau
Institute of Technology), course: ATC / ATM, language: English,
abstract: In a conventional air transport system, airports and aircraft
are highly dependent on each other in providing service for their
customers and passengers. Especially advances in the engine and airframe
technology forced airports to plan, design, and construct facilities
necessary to ensure that they were not left behind in full participation
in a high growth industry. Nowadays international airports are
progressively faced with huge aircraft with greatly increased wingspans
carrying almost 900 people. These new circumstances affect airport
layouts eminently. Beside the configuration of cargo and passenger
terminals, geometric and structural design of pavements, including
taxiways, exists and aprons, number and orientation of runways, the
length of the runway is a main factor which has to match the improved
parameters. Nevertheless, international airports operate with a wide
range of present-day aircraft which have quite different requirements of
the runway. At this point it is up to the airport owner to declare
distances on the runway which are available for satisfying the takeoff
runs and landings of airplanes. It is exactly the mentioned runway which
plays a central role in the entire airport facility system. The runway
has always been the most crucial point of all maneuvering areas where
all takeoff and landing movements take place. It is proven that takeoff
and landing phases are the most critical parts of all stages of a
flight. They are demanding the highest skills from the crews and placing
huge stresses and strains on the aircraft itself. According to the Air
Transport Safety Survey, runway excursions are the most common type of
accident reported annually both in the European region and elsewhere in
the world. 106 excursions with commercial and exe
