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Title:

Ensuring Safe Paramotor Operations at Emmett Municipal Airport

Accession Number:

01748346

Record Type:

Monograph

Abstract:

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires airports that are open to the public to accommodate mixed-use aeronautical activities. That means that aircraft such as gliders, helicopters, balloons, blimps, and more have the right to use an airport’s airspace and runways while receiving the same operational and logistical accommodations as planes. But, airport operators sometimes struggle to handle these diverse aeronautical activities, which introduce unique and often unfamiliar operating characteristics. This document describes how one airport, Emmett Municipal Airport in Idaho, used ACRP Synthesis74: Combining Mixed-Use Flight Operations Safely at Airports to safely incorporate paramotor activities into its current air traffic operations.

Language:

English

Pagination:

2p

Publication Date:

2020-8

Serial:

ACRP Impacts on Practice

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Photos

Subject Areas:

Aviation; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Aug 20 2020 2:12PM