Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 602 - TRANSPORTATION CABINET - OFFICE OF AERONAUTICS › Chapter 20 - Airport Safety Standards › Section 602 KAR 20:120 - Public use airport

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS 183.090
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: This administrative
				regulation sets forth the minimum airport safety standards for classification
				as a public use airport.
Section 1.
			 Definitions.
(1) "Airplane" means an
			 engine-driven fixed-wing aircraft heavier than air, that is supported in flight
			 by the dynamic reaction of air against its wing.
(2) "Approach surface" means that area
			 extending from the end of the primary surface in an inclined plane and
			 increasing in elevation at a given ratio of horizontal to vertical
			 fee.
(3) "Flight visibility" means
			 the average forward horizontal distance from the cockpit of an aircraft in
			 flight at which prominent unlighted objects may be seen and identified by day
			 and prominent lighted objects may be seen and identified by night.
(4) "Landing area" also means runway when
			 used in administrative regulations relating to airports used for the takeoff
			 and landing of airplanes.
(5)
			 "Landing area designation" means a certificate of approval of the safety and
			 adequacy, of an airport facility by the Transportation Cabinet.
(6) "Public use airport" means an airport
			 with a runway for airplanes which prior permission is not necessary for the
			 landing or taking off of aircraft.
(7) "Primary surface" means a surface
			 longitudinally centered on a runway. When the runway has a specially prepared
			 hard surface, the primary surface extends 200 feet beyond each end of that
			 runway; but when the runway has no specially prepared hard surface, or planned
			 hard surface, the primary surface ends at each end of that runway. The
			 elevation of any point of the primary surface is the same as the elevation of
			 the nearest point of the runway centerline.
(8) "Runway" means the surface of an airport
			 used for landing and taking off of aircraft as depicted on the airport zoning
			 map and airport master plan, and Federal Aviation Administration form 7480-1
			 Notice of Landing Area Proposal.
(a)
			 "Nonprecision instrument runway" means a runway having an existing instrument
			 approach procedure utilizing air navigation facilities with only horizontal
			 guidance, or area type navigation equipment, for which a straight-in
			 nonprecision instrument approach procedure has been approved or planned, and
			 for which no precision approach facilities are planned, or indicated on a
			 Federal Aviation Administration planning document.
(b) "Precision instrument runway" means a
			 runway having an existing instrument approach procedure utilizing an instrument
			 landing system (ILS), or a precision approach radar (PAR). It also means a
			 runway for which a precision approach system is planned and is so indicated by
			 a Federal Aviation Administration approved airport layout plan or any other
			 Federal Aviation Administration planning document.
(c) "Visual runway" means a runway intended
			 solely for the operation of aircraft using visual approach procedures, with no
			 straight-in instrument approach procedure and no instrument approach procedure
			 and no instrument designation indicated on a Federal Aviation Administration
			 approved airport layout plan, or by any planning document submitted to the
			 Federal Aviation Administration by competent authority.
(9) "Segmented circle" means a circle formed
			 of separated segments designed to draw visual attention to an airport wind
			 indicator located within the circle, and forming a basis for a system to
			 provide visual traffic pattern information at airports without operating
			 control towers.
(10) "Taxiway"
			 means a defined path, from one part of an airport to another, selected or
			 prepared for the taxiing of aircraft.