# Presentation: 491019

## StandardsforAirportSignsMarking

- StandardsforAirportSignsMarking

**FAA Southwest Region**
**Airports Division**

**Notes:**
Standards for Airport Marking

Contained in Advisory Circular 150/5340-1.

Provide important visual cues for pilot in both visual and instrument flying conditions:

Positive identification of paved area as a runway
Identifies the runway approach end
Supports instrument approach procedures - runway environment must be in sight to prevent missed approach
Touchdown Zone and Aiming Point Marking give distance information
Centerline provides longitudinal guidance for takeoff and landing
Exit stripes enhance capacity by guiding aircraft onto exit taxiways

## OBJECTIVES:

**Learn changes to:**
** ****Standards for Airport Sign Systems                           AC 150/5340-18D**
**Standards for Airport Markings AC – 150/5340-1H**
**Purpose of revisions – Incorporate Changed Standards for POFZ & CAT II/III Ops**

**Notes:**
Objectives

[Red text and boxes identify changes in latest version of AC, 150/5340-1H.]

Promotes standardization in the aviation industry so that pilots have consistent guidance throughout the airport system.  Non-standard marking leads to erroneous published runway lengths and costly errors in surveys and Airport Layout Plans.  Well-maintained and standard marking is a major contributor to preventing vehicle and pilot deviations and runway incursions.

Purpose:  Incorporate interpretations and clarifications issued by the FAA in the form of Sign and Marking Supplement (SAMS) since 1991.

Marking standards are regulatory requirements at Certificated airports.

##    OBJECTIVES:

**Promote Standardization = Safety**
**Compliance Date:  January 1, 2007**
**“****These standards are the **_**only**_** method of complying with the marking and signing of runways and taxiways at certificated airports.”**

## Precision  Object  Free  Zone

**Change 8:  Airport Design Standards**
**Removed**** ****–**** ****Precision Object Free Area  (POFA)**
**Installed  –  Precision Obstacle Free Zone  (POFZ)**
**In Effect Only When ALL of the Following:**
**Vertical Guided Approach**
**Ceilings Below 250’ and/or  less 3⁄4  Statute  Mile/RVR below 4000’**
**Aircraft Within 2 Mile Final Approach**
**Applicable to All R/W Ends / Displaced Thresholds**
**Effective Date January 1, 2007**

**Notes:**
Changes to Marking Standards

Glass beads in some airport marking is now standard as a means of enhancing marking visibility.

Certificated airports - was to be completed by Aug 2000

The use of beads applies to all airport projects funded under the Airport Improvement Program and to Passenger Facility Charge projects

The specification for paint in in AC 150/5370-10A, P-620, and it has also been changed to be consistent with the marking AC.

## TERMINAL  INSTRUMENT  PROCEDURESTERPS

**Standards for separation distances for a CAT II/III Runway and a parallel taxiway**
**Requires an aircraft under certain conditions to hold at a location other than the runway holding position**

## Precision  Obstacle  Free  Zone  (POFZ)

**POFZ**

## Mandatory  Hold  Position  Signs

**Principal Changes:**
**Hold sign for ILS standards revised to include signing POFZ boundary**
_**New hold sign**_** for CAT II/III operations**
_**New standards**_** require white inscriptions to be outlined in  black**
**Title of ILS Critical Area Boundary Sign changed to include POFZ and CAT II/III Operations**
**Hold Position signs for POFZ and CAT II/III required to be  lighted, if the runway is lighted**

## Mandatory  Signs

## Mandatory  Hold  Position  Signs

## Mandatory  Hold  Position  Sign

## Taxiway  Directional  Signs

**Principal Changes**:
**A black divider between messages**
**If a black divider is not used, a location sign should be used between messages**
**Examples changed to eliminate the indication of a black border around the panel**

## Taxiway  Directional  Signs

## Taxiway  Directional  Signs

## Stop  Sign

**Principal Change:**
**Changed wording from should install to install**
**At each intersection of a runway or taxiway**
**Except where there is a letter of agreement, require ATC clearance before crossing a taxiway**
**Use a ILS sign where the road intersects the POFZ**

## Marking  Standards

**Principal change:**
**Using the ILS hold position marking for :**
**ILS Critical area boundary**
**POFZ boundary **
**CAT II/III boundary**

## ILS,  POFZ,  and  CAT  II/III  Marking

## Approach Area

**Approach Area**

**POFZ**

**RSA/OFZ**

**ILS Critical Area**

## AC  Design  and  Installation  Details for  Visual  Aids

**Cancels and Combines the data in the following AC’s: **
**150/5340-4C, R/W Centerline and Touchdown lighting Systems**
**150/5340-14B, Economy approach lighting**
**150/5340-17B, Standby power non-FAA Airport Lighting**
**150/5340-21, Airport Miscellaneous lighting**
**150/5340-23B, Supplemental Wind Cones**
**150/5340-24, R/W & T/W edge lighting**

## AC  Design  and  Installation  Details for  Airport  Visual  Aids

**AC cancellations Continued:**
**150/5340-27A, Air–to–Ground Radio Control of Airport Lighting Systems**
**150/5340-28, Low Visibility Taxiway Lighting Systems**
**150/5340-29, Installation Details for Land And Hold Short Lighting Systems**

## AC  Design  and  Installation  Details  for Airport  Visual  Aids

**Principal Changes:**
**Clarification of counterpoise installation**
**Deleted requirement for VASI**
**Added installation criteria for PAPI, AC 150/5345-28,  PAPI Systems is being updated**
**Created new chapter “ Fixture Mounting Bases”**
**Create new chapter “Power Distribution and Control System”**

## AC  Design  and  Installation  Details for  Airport  Visual  Aids

**Principal Changes Continued:**
**Combined all figures from various AC’s**
**Include Appendix 2, “ Airport Technical Advisory” for Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)**
**Included Appendix 5, “ Typical Installation drawing for Airport Visual Aids”**

## Summary

**Creation of POFZ - a volume of airspace**
**Two new hold position signs for POFZ and CAT II/III operations**
**White inscriptions outlined with black**
**Extended use of the ILS critical area hold position sign to the POFZ and the CAT II/III boundaries**
**Creation of AC 150/5340-30, Design and Installation Detail For Airport Visual Aids**

## References

**AC 150/5300-13, Change 8, Airport Design**
**AC 150/5340-18D, Standards for Airport Sign Systems**
**AC 150/5344-44G, Specifications for Taxiway and Runway Signs**
**AC 150/5340-1H, Change 2, Standards for Airport Markings**
**AC 150/5340-30, Design and Installation Details for Airport Visual Aids**