Florida Administrative Code › 14 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › 14 - Departmental › Chapter 14-60 - AIRPORT LICENSING, REGISTRATION, AND AIRSPACE PROTECTION › Section 14-60.003 - Purpose, Definitions, and Designation of Signature Authority

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Purpose. The purpose of this rule chapter
				is to promote safe civil aviation by eliminating hazards; to provide airfield
				standards for airports; to provide standards for airport marking and lighting;
				to license and register airports, pursuant to the licensing and registration
				requirements of Chapter 330, F.S.; and to promote flight safety by providing
				for airspace protection, pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 333,
				F.S.
(2) Definitions.
(a) The definitions in Section
				330.27, F.S., shall apply to
				this rule chapter.
(b) For purposes
				of this rule chapter the following additional terms are defined:
1. "Aeronautics" means transportation by
				aircraft; the operation, construction, repair, or maintenance of aircraft,
				aircraft power plants and accessories, including the repair, packing, and
				maintenance of parachutes; the design, establishment, construction, extension,
				operation, improvement, repair, or maintenance of airports, restricted landing
				areas, or other air navigation facilities, and air instruction.
2. "Airport Hazard" means any structure or
				tree or use of land that would exceed the federal obstruction standards and
				which obstructs the airspace required for the flight of aircraft in taking off,
				maneuvering, or landing or is otherwise hazardous to such taking off,
				maneuvering, or landing of aircraft and for which no person has previously
				obtained a permit or variance.
3.
				"Airport Hazard Area" means any area of land or water upon which an airport
				hazard might be established if not prevented.
4. "Applicant" means a person submitting an
				application for private or public airport site approval or public airport
				license.
5. "Approach Surface"
				means an area that surrounds and protects the landing approach area, which is
				longitudinally centered on the extended runway centerline and extends outward
				and upward from each end of the runway primary surface.
6. "Coefficient of Friction" ("Mu") means a
				value that is an indicator of the resistance to motion of two moving objects or
				surfaces that touch.
7. "Displaced
				Threshold" means a point on the runway beyond the threshold to re-designate the
				beginning portion of the runway available for landing, although the portion of
				pavement preceding a displaced threshold may be available for takeoffs in
				either direction and landings from the opposite direction.
8. "FATO" means the designated "Final
				Approach and Takeoff" area for helicopter operations.
9. "IFR" means the Federal Aviation
				Administration (FAA) established "Instrument Flight Rules," under which
				aircraft operate when meteorological conditions, ceiling, and/or visibility
				exist that are below the minimums for flight under visual flight
				rules.
10. "Local Government" means
				a city or county and shall include political subdivisions as defined in Section
				333.01(9),
				F.S.
11. "Non-precision Instrument
				Runway" means a runway having an existing or planned instrument approach
				procedure using air navigation facilities with only horizontal guidance or area
				type navigation equipment for which a straight-in non-precision instrument
				approach procedure has been approved.
12. "Obstruction" means any existing or
				proposed manmade object or object of natural growth or terrain that violates
				federal obstruction standards.
13.
				"Pavement Condition Index" ("PCI") means a value that is an indicator of the
				integrity and viability of a runway surface with a focus on pavement cracking,
				swelling, rutting, and depressions.
14. "Precision Instrument Runway" means a
				runway having an existing or planned instrument approach procedure using an
				Instrument Landing System or a Precision Approach Radar.
15. "Primary Surface" means a surface area
				that surrounds and protects the landing area; the dimensions of which vary by
				type of landing area, weight of the landing aircraft, visibility, and the type
				of landing approach.
16. "Runway
				Safety Area" means a specified surface surrounding the runway that is prepared
				or suitable for reducing the risk of damage to airplanes in the event of an
				undershoot, overshoot, or excursion from the runway.
17. "Structure" means any object, constructed
				or installed by humans, including, but without limitation thereof, buildings,
				towers, smokestacks, utility poles, and overhead transmission lines.
18. "Threshold" means the beginning of that
				portion of the runway available for landing.
19. "TLOF" means the designated "Touchdown
				and Liftoff" area for helicopter operations.
20. "Transition Surface" means a surface area
				that surrounds and protects the lateral boundaries of the primary and approach
				surfaces, which extends outward and upward at right angles to the runway
				centerline and the extended runway centerline at specified ratios.
21. "Traverse Way" means any highway,
				roadway, waterway, railway, or other public or private surface transitway, that
				allows for the passage of mobile objects.
22. "Utility Runway" means a runway that is
				constructed for and intended to be used by propeller driven aircraft of 12,500
				pounds maximum gross weight or less.
23. "VFR" means FAA established "Visual
				Flight Rules" under which aircraft operate when favorable meteorological
				conditions, ceiling, or visibility exist that are above the minimums for flight
				under instrument flight rules.
24.
				"Visual Runway" means a runway intended solely for the operation of aircraft
				using visual approach procedures, with no planned straight-in instrument
				approach procedure designation.