Wis. Admin. Code Department of Transportation Trans 57.02 - Definitions
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).
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