Understand your airport's design standards without a consultant
AvPlot puts the same FAA airport design standards your consultants use into a fast, cited interface — so you can check what applies to your airport, verify what's handed back to you, and walk into FAA coordination knowing the numbers.
What AvPlot does for airport staff
If you plan, manage, or oversee a public-use airport, you make decisions every week that turn on FAA design standards — and you do not always have a consultant on retainer to answer a quick question. AvPlot is built so on-staff planners can get to the right number, with the citation, in minutes.
- Verify consultant deliverables — when a consultant hands back RSA, RPZ, or separation dimensions, you can confirm them against the same FAA standards in minutes, with the citation to back up the check.
- Prepare for FAA coordination — understand the design standards and the documents behind your project before you sit down with the Airports District Office, so the conversation starts from shared facts.
- Know what standards apply to your airport — enter your runway's design code and see the dimensions the FAA expects, each tied to its source in AC 150/5300-13B.
- Plan capital improvements with confidence — scope a hangar, a taxiway, or a runway change against real design standards before committing budget or hiring out the study.
A real question, answered in seconds
Need to know if a proposed hangar conflicts with your Runway Protection Zone? Enter your runway's approach category and visibility minimums, and AvPlot returns the exact RPZ dimensions — length, inner and outer width, and acreage — with the FAA citation. No AC to dig through, no spreadsheet to maintain.
The same approach works across the standards you reach for most: RSA and ROFA, taxiway separation, and declared distances each resolve from your inputs to a cited answer the same way.
Accurate enough to plan with, cited enough to trust
AvPlot is built for technical planning support — design reports, planning studies, ALP narratives — not a replacement for stamped engineering or construction documents. Every dimensional value traces to its FAA source: design standards come from AC 150/5300-13B, and airport facts (runway data, declared distances, elevations) come from the FAA NASR subscription, returned with cycle dates so the citation trail holds up.
New to the standards behind these tools? Airport Planning 101 is a plain-language starting point that orients you before you dive into specific dimensions.
AvPlot is a planning-support tool — accurate enough for design reports and planning studies, but not a substitute for stamped engineering or the governing FAA text. Always verify against the current AC and NASR data before issuing a design product. Back to the AvPlot toolkit or see the FAQ.