Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Transportation › Chapter Trans 57 - Standards For Airport Siting › Section Trans 57.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
The words and phrases defined in ch. 114, Stats., have the same
				meaning in this chapter unless a different definition is specifically provided.
				In this chapter:
(1) "Airport not open
			 to the public" is any airport requiring permission from the airport owner or
			 the manager prior to its use by any person other than the owner.
(2) "Airport open to the public" means an
			 airport, whether publicly or privately owned, which is open for aeronautical
			 use by the general public.
(3)
			 "Airport study" means an analysis performed by the department to determine an
			 airport's compatibility with other transportation facilities.
(4) "Applicant" means a person who applies to
			 construct or establish a new airport or activate an airport within the
			 state.
(5) "Application" means FAA
			 form 7480-1, "Notice of Landing Area Proposal" together with a bureau airport
			 site approval application.
Note: FAA form 7480-1, Notice of Landing Area Proposal, and the
				airport site approval application may be obtained by writing to the Department
				of Transportation, Division of Infrastructure Development, Bureau of
				Aeronautics, 4802 Sheboygan Avenue, Room 701, P. O. Box 7914, Madison, WI
				53707-7914.
(6) "Approach
			 area" means a trapezoid centered on the extended runway centerline. The
			 trapezoid has an inner width at the runway threshold of 250 feet, a length of
			 5,000 feet from the threshold and an outer width of 1,250 feet.
(7) "Approach surface" means an inclined
			 plane which extends outward and upward from the runway threshold at a slope of
			 20:1, 20 feet horizontal to 1 foot vertical. The approach surface has
			 dimensions which are bound by the vertical projection of the approach
			 area.
(8) "Bureau" means the bureau
			 of aeronautics, division of infrastructure development, Wisconsin department of
			 transportation.
(9) "Certificate"
			 means a certificate of airport site approval issued by the
			 department.
(10) "Displaced
			 threshold" means a landing threshold located at a point on the runway other
			 than the physical end of the runway.
(11) "FAA" has the same meaning as provided
			 in s.
			 Trans
			 56.03(7).
(12) "IFR" means instrument flight
			 rules.
(13) "Object" means any
			 structure, objects of natural growth, permanent or temporary construction or
			 apparatus including, but not limited to, buildings, fences, hills, power and
			 telephone lines, shrubs, traverse ways, trees and towers.
(14) "Obstruction" means any object which
			 penetrates the approach surface within the approach area or the runway primary
			 surface.
(15) "Runway" means a
			 defined rectangular area, on a land airport, prepared for the landing and
			 takeoff of aircraft along its length.
(16) "Runway primary surface" means a surface
			 longitudinally centered on a runway. The runway primary surface has a width of
			 250 feet, 125 feet each side of centerline, and a length equal to the length of
			 the runway. The elevation of any point on the primary surface is the same as
			 the elevation of the nearest point on the runway centerline.
(17) "Seaplane" means an aircraft capable of
			 taking off from and landing on water.
(18) "Secretary" has the meaning designated
			 in s.
			 Trans
			 56.03(11).
(19) "Transportation facilities" means any
			 airport, roadway, highway, railroad, public trails or waterway adjacent to or
			 in the approach to the landing area.
(20) "Traverse ways" means any routes used by
			 the public including, but not limited to roads, highways, public trails, bike
			 paths, railroads and waterways.
(21) "VFR" has the same meaning as provided
			 in s.
			 Trans
			 56.03(14).