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Airplane Design Group
I II III IV V VI
Visual or nonprecision
runway
Centerline to
Taxiway or taxilane 300 300 400 400 400 ¶ 600
centerline *
Hold line * 250 250 250 250 250 250
Helicopter touchdown 400 400 400 400 400 400
pad
Aircraft parking area 400 400 500 500 500 500
Precision instrument
runway
Centerline to
Taxiway or taxilane 400 400 400 400 400 ¶ 600
centerline *
Hold line *,§ 250 250 250 † 250 † 280 ‡ 325
Helicopter touchdown 400 400 400 400 400 400
pad
Aircraft parking area 500 500 500 500 500 500

* Satisfies the requirement that no part of an aircraft at a holding location or on a taxiway
centerline is within the runway safety area or penetrates the obstacle free zone. Accord-
ingly, at higher elevations an increase to these separations may be needed to achieve
this result.
† For aircraft in aircraft approach category C and airplane design groups III and IV increase
by 1 ft for each 100 ft of airport elevation greater than 3200 ft.
‡ For aircraft in aircraft approach category C and airplane design group V increase by 1 ft
for each 100 ft of airport elevation above mean sea level.
§ For aircraft in aircraft approach category D increase by 1 ft for each 100 ft of airport ele-
vation above mean sea level.
¶ For airports at or below an elevation of 1345 ft; increase to 450 ft for airports at elevations
between 1345 and 6560 ft and to 500 ft for airports at an elevation above 6560 ft.
Source: Federal Aviation Administration [6].

TABLE 6-13 Airfield Separation Criteria for Aircraft in Approach Categories C and
D, ft

When the runway protection zone begins at a location other than
200 ft beyond the end of the runway due to the application of the
declared distance concept discussed in Chap. 2, two runway protec-
tion zones are usually required, an approach runway protection zone
and a departure runway protection zone. The dimensions of the
approach runway protection zone are given in Table 6-16 but the
departure runway protection zone begins 200 ft beyond the far end of