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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2005
Alexander E. Smith, McLean, VA (US);
Jonathan C. Baldwin, Alexandria, VA (US);
Robert P. Blair, Wesley Chapel, FL (US);
Thomas J. Breen, Tyngsborough, MA (US);
Alexander E. Smith, McLean, VA (US);
Jonathan C. Baldwin, Alexandria, VA (US);
Robert P. Blair, Wesley Chapel, FL (US);
Thomas J. Breen, Tyngsborough, MA (US);
ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A land use compatibility software module uses an existing suite of airport management programs to generate exception reports for FAA Part 77 land use compatibly surveys. Land use compatibility management is a manually intensive and time-consuming process. The noise officer may have to compute whether a proposed structure violates FAA's obstruction clearance criteria as set out in FAA's standard for obstacle clearance zones (Part 77). With these three-dimensional zone shapes entered into AirScene™, the user may enter lat/long and height data for potential obstructions, such as cellular telephone towers as mentioned in the above example. The system will plot the potential obstructions on the map and will determine whether or not the height and proposed position of the tower violates the FAA's obstruction criteria for that runway. The system may be used to generate 'exception reports' for proposed structures.