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Honorable John H. Shaffer
APPENDIX E
With regard to existing hazardous situations around certain airports, the Board believes that there is a need to issue guidelines restricting the use of specific runways to specific aircraft or operations, based on such factors as the aircraft's accelerate-stop distance, runway length, engineout capability, and the proximity of urban congestion to the runway involved; this would assist airport managers in securing or implementing the authority to offset the hazards inherent in the environmental encroachment that has been allowed to develop near some airports.
In view of the foregoing, the National Transportation Safety Board recommends that the Federal Aviation Administration:
- 1. Limit the issuance of experimental certificates to those aircraft and operations that are truly experimental in nature and reclassify the other activities listed in FAR 21.191 in a manner that will permit more selective regulatory control without unduly inhibiting the promotion of aviation.
- 2. Establish pilot experience, transition, and proficiency standards applicable to the operation of all high-performance surplus military aircraft, reciprocating as well as turbine engine powered.
- 3. Establish additional airshow separation criteria applicable to persons and property in other than designated spectator areas to insure that the overall suitability of an airport for airshows is taken into account.
- 4. Include in the guidelines dealing with compatible land use planning around airports, consideration for the safety of persons and property on the ground, and use the controls available in the Airport Development Aid Program to insure compliance.
- 5. Establish guidelines that will assist airport managers in setting limitations on the utilization of runways where existing environmental encroachment and runway length combine to create a high risk level for certain aircraft operations.
