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6available literature resulting from national and international aviation conferences, all of which was scrutinized for salient points, common elements, and best practices. The literature review revealed two recent efforts at recording non-towered airport operations.
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7 The most widespread use of the operations data was for inclusion on the airport's FAA Airport Master Record Form 5010. Aviation forecasting and justification for airport development projects were also listed as some of the most common uses of the data.
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8based aircraft by an estimated number of OPBA, (2) applying a ratio of FAA IFPTO, and (3)
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9 objective of analyzing this method was to determine if there was a number that could be used by airport management/ planners to multiply by their number of based aircraft to obtain a relatively accurate estimate of annual airport operations. To be evaluated, the operations estimated using the OPBA method had to be compared to airports with known annual traffic and based aircraft.
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10 tion, some entities use a seasonal or monthly adjustment factor to expand an airport's sample into an annual estimate. For example, an entity believes that fifteen percent (15%)
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11 Limitations and Assumptions of the Study A comparison of estimated results to observed data is routinely used as a way to measure accuracy of a model. In the case of annual airport operations, the only way to acquire observed data at non-towered airports would be to physically watch and record each operation for a full year.
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