Australian Airport Master Planning Notes
1. Master Plan Content
A good description of the content of an aerodrome Master Plan is provided in the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) document Rules and Practices for Aerodromes (RPAs), which have now been superseded by the Manual of Standards Part 139. Although the RPAs are superseded, the following description of the contents of an Aerodrome Master Plan remains valid.
The master plan should be written with the needs of the users of the document in mind. Major users would be the aerodrome operator, for the allocation of specific sites for development within the functionally planned areas;
Commonwealth, State and local Governments, for input to the master planning process and for integration of the aerodrome and its needs with their own planning and development; local community groups and the public generally, for input to the master planning process and for their own information and the aviation industry, for input to the master planning process and for integration with their own planning.
Care should be taken in the writing of master plans to avoid jargon and a presentation that makes it difficult to be understood by interested non-industry bodies such as environmental or community groups. Supplementary and background material should be included where necessary to make the document more easily understood by lay people.
In broad terms, the text should commence with a statement of the objectives of the master plan; a discussion of the current and future perceived role of the aerodrome, covering local, regional and network aspects; the history of, and constraints on, the existing site, if any; and a discussion of alternative sites leading to selection of the preferred aerodrome site, where appropriate. The text should then pass to issues of past and forecast demand for the various activities and the capacity of the aerodrome site to accommodate this demand.
The document should go on to cover the various functional
A good description of the content of an aerodrome Master Plan is provided in the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) document Rules and Practices for Aerodromes (RPAs), which have now been superseded by the Manual of Standards Part 139. Although the RPAs are superseded, the following description of the contents of an Aerodrome Master Plan remains valid.
The master plan should be written with the needs of the users of the document in mind. Major users would be the aerodrome operator, for the allocation of specific sites for development within the functionally planned areas;
Commonwealth, State and local Governments, for input to the master planning process and for integration of the aerodrome and its needs with their own planning and development; local community groups and the public generally, for input to the master planning process and for their own information and the aviation industry, for input to the master planning process and for integration with their own planning.
Care should be taken in the writing of master plans to avoid jargon and a presentation that makes it difficult to be understood by interested non-industry bodies such as environmental or community groups. Supplementary and background material should be included where necessary to make the document more easily understood by lay people.
In broad terms, the text should commence with a statement of the objectives of the master plan; a discussion of the current and future perceived role of the aerodrome, covering local, regional and network aspects; the history of, and constraints on, the existing site, if any; and a discussion of alternative sites leading to selection of the preferred aerodrome site, where appropriate. The text should then pass to issues of past and forecast demand for the various activities and the capacity of the aerodrome site to accommodate this demand.
The document should go on to cover the various functional