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F e d e r a l Aviat-bn A d m i n i s t r a t i o n Airport Capacity and Delay REPRINT INCORPORATESCHANGE 1 AND 2, AC:l50/5060-5 Date: 9-23-83 Advisory Circular Portions of this AC are under review for update. Please contact the appropriate Regional Office or Airports District Office for assistance. http://www.faa.gov/airports/news_information/contact_info/regional/ http://www.faa.gov/airports/news_information/contact_info/regional/ Advisory Circular subject: AIRPORT CAPACITY AND DELAY hte: 9123183 - AC No: 150/5060-S Initiated by: AAS- CbaRtge: lm PURPOSE. This advisory circular (AC) explains how to compute airport capacity and aircraft delay for airport planning and design. 2. CANCELLATIONS. This publication cancels the 'following Federal Aviation Adminis- tration (FM) Advisory Circulars (ACs): a. AC 150/5060-lA, Airport Capacity Criteria Used in Preparing the National Airport Plan, dated July 8, 1968, and b. AC 150/5060-3A, Airport Capacity Criteria Used in Long Range Planning, dated December 24, 1969. 3, BACRCROUND, Changes in the composition of the nation's aircraft fleet together with improvements in air traffic control (ATC) practices have outdated capacity calculations contained the cancelled ACs. An FAA contractor reexamined the proce- dures for determining airport capacity and suggested improvements to update them. This AC implements these improve=nts. In addition, this AC refines definitions of capacity and delay. CAPACITY is the throughput rater i.e. the maximum number of operations that can take place in an hour. DELAY is the difference in time between a constrained and an unconstrained aircraft operation. These definitions take into account that delays occur because of simultaneous demands on the…

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