Speed up the reference phase of every airport planning project
AvPlot puts the FAA airport design standards your team looks up every day behind one fast, cited interface — so the reference work that used to eat hours of every project takes minutes, and every number you hand a client is defensible.
Why consulting firms use AvPlot
Planning firms live in the gap between the FAA advisory circulars and the deliverable. The standards are settled; the work is in looking them up correctly, consistently, and traceably — over and over, on every project and every runway. AvPlot is built to compress that work.
- Citation traceability — every dimension AvPlot returns carries the FAA source it came from (the AC, appendix, table, or NASR cycle date), so every value in your deliverable is defensible in review.
- Standardized outputs across the team — junior and senior staff pull from the same engine and the same standards, so RSA, RPZ, and separation values are consistent across everyone’s work products.
- Twenty tools in one platform — runway linework, RSA/ROFA, RPZ, declared distances, fillets, obstruction analysis, ALP data tables, forecasting, and more, instead of a folder of one-off spreadsheets that each engineer maintains differently.
- Shareable URLs for collaboration — tool state encodes into the URL, so you can send a colleague the exact RPZ or separation case you’re looking at and they see the same thing.
From the AC to the answer
Before AvPlot, looking up RSA dimensions meant opening the AC, finding Appendix G, cross-referencing your ADG and approach visibility, and transcribing the numbers into a spreadsheet — for every runway, on every project. With AvPlot, you select your parameters and get the cited dimensions instantly, ready to drop into a design report or ALP narrative.
Multiply that across a project portfolio and the savings compound. A firm running a dozen master plans, ALP updates, and design studies at once is doing the same reference lookups hundreds of times a year — and AvPlot turns each of those from a multi-step manual chore into a single cited query, with the source trail already attached for QA and FAA review.
Built for production planning work
AvPlot is accurate enough for design reports, planning studies, and ALP narratives. It is not a replacement for stamped engineering or construction documents — it is a reference and planning-support tool that gets you to defensible numbers fast. Its values follow a strict data hierarchy: AC 150/5300-13B governs as the design standard; ADG-driven planning dimensions come from the Runway Design Standards Matrix in Appendix G; and airport facts — runway lengths, declared distances, elevations, headings — come from the FAA NASR 28-day subscription, each carrying its cycle date.
AvPlot is a planning-support tool, accurate for design reports and planning studies — it is 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 read the FAQ.