Feature Type

Feature Type Name

Landing area

Synonyms

Definition

Any locality either on land, water or structures, including airports/helipads and intermediate landing fields, which is used, or intended to be used, for the landing and takeoff of aircraft. Landing areas may or may not have facilities for the shelter and servicing of aircraft, or for receiving or discharging passengers or cargo.

Comments

For discharging or taking on passengers and cargo, for example, using water craft, see "Landing"

Table Name

LANDING_AREA

Australia's Implementation Table Names

  • LANDING_AREA_1M_PT
  • LANDING_AREA_LN
  • LANDING_AREA_PY
  • LANDING_AREA_1M_LN
  • LANDING_AREA_1M_PY
  • LANDING_AREA_BP_GG_PT
  • LANDING_AREA_PT

The following have been used in the definition of this feature type

  • Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms, 3rd Edition, Compiled and edited by Dale Crane, Aviation Supples & Academics, Inc, Washington, 1997, USA.

The following have been used in categorising this feature type

  • Infrastructure Services
Code Name Definition   Data type Values UoM Used by these Feature Types
1007 Aircraft   Mandatory character(50)
label Definition
Fixed-wing An airplane or glider whose wing is rigidly attatched to the structure. The term fixed-wing is used to distinguish these aircraft from rotary-wing aircraft, such as helicopters and autogiros.
Other
Rotary-wing A rotary wing aircraft, such as helicopters and autogiros, whose wing is not rigidly attatched to the structure. The term rotary wing is used to distinguish these aircraft from fixed-wing aircraft such as airplanes or gliders.
Unknown
  Types
1316 Asset_manag_no Australia uses this field to record the new asset management number from Maximo. Optional character(20)     Types
1042 Dataset_Id An unique identifier of the dataset the feature belongs to Mandatory number(4)     Types
1054 Description Describing, verbal portrait, of a person, object, or event Optional character(100)     Types
1064 Elevation Height of ground level above mean sea level (MSL) Mandatory number(10,2)   metres Types
1071 Facilities   Mandatory character(50)
label Definition
Landing area only
Other
Prepared surface with facilities
Prepared surface without facilities
Unknown
  Types
1109 Jurisdiction The name of the country that manages that feature type. (Country name must match ISO 31661) Mandatory character(50)     Types
1111 Landing_Gear The part of an aircraft structure that supports the aircraft when it is not flying. Mandatory character(50)
label Definition
Floats
Other
Retractable skis ski plane: An airplane whose wheeled landing gear has been replaced with skis so it can operate from snow or ice. Some types of skis require the wheels to be removed, and others can be installed without removing the wheels. Retracktable skis have a slot
Skis
Unknown Value indicating that an attribute is not applicable or that it is impossible to determine
Wheels
Wheels and skids
  Types
1267 Name Name used to refer or label something. For example waypoints, buildings, and camps. Note: Name does not include SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica placenames. See the attribute SCAR_Name. Optional character(100)     Types
1150 Q_Info An unique identifier pointing to additional data quality information not included in the metadata record. Mandatory number(5)     Types
1090 SCAR_Gaz_Id Reference number as in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica Mandatory number(10)     Types
1127 SCAR_Name A placename name in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica. These names have been contributed by national gazetteers. Mandatory character(100)     Types
1186 Status The state or condition of a feature Mandatory character(50)
label Definition
Abandoned
Closed
Current
Moved
Non-preferred This dataset has not been superseded but there is another dataset that is the preferred dataset for general use.
Operational
Other
Proposed
Removed
Ruin
Seasonal One or more of the divisions of the year. E.g. summer
Superseded
Under construction
Unknown
Year-round All of the year
  Types
1192 Surface The outside of a material body, the limits that terminate a solid, the upper boundary of soil, etc. Mandatory character(50)
label Definition
Bitumen
Blue_ice Bands of transparent ice containing no air bubbles, its mass acquiring a blueish tint.
Concrete
Gravel
Ice
Ice free ground A general term for areas that are ice free
Ice or snow
Other
Rock The hard material of the earth's crust, exposed on the surface or underlaying the soil.
Sea ice
Snow Atmospheric precipitation of ice crystals.
Timber
Unknown
Water Sea: The expanse of salt water that covers most of the earth's surface and surrounds its and masses. Lake: A large body of water surrounded by land.
  Types
1299 Un_Locode The United Nations Code for Trade and Transport Locations (UN/LOCODE) is a geographic coding scheme developed and maintained by United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, a unit of the United Nations. UN/LOCODE assigns code elements to locations with functions such as seaports, airports, and other locations used in trade and transport. Each code element consists of five characters, where the two first indicate the country (according to ISO standard 3166-1) and the three following represent the place name. For more information visit http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/ Optional character(5)     Types
1036 Use   Mandatory character(50)
label Definition
Emergency A distress or an urgency condition
Non-emergency Not a distress or an urgency condition
Other
Unknown Value indicating that an attribute is not applicable or that it is impossible to determine
  Types