§ 2.60.380. Operation requirements and restrictions.  


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  • A.

    No aircraft shall be operated on the surface of any airport runway, taxiway, ramp or aircraft parking and storage area in a careless or negligent manner, or in disrespect of the rights and safety of others, or without due caution and at a speed likely to unreasonably endanger persons or property, or while the pilot or other persons aboard controlling any part of the operation thereof is under the influence of intoxicating liquor, or any narcotic or habit-forming drug, or if such aircraft is so constructed, equipped or loaded as to endanger or to be likely to unreasonably endanger persons or property.

    B.

    Prior notification from the executive director and his duly authorized representatives is required before landing and takeoff is permitted on the airport of aircraft with a total gross weight in excess of the following:

    Metropolitan Airport.

    Aircraft with Dual Wheels: Runway 2L-2OR, 170,000 pounds; 2R-2OL, 40,000 pounds; 13-31, 75,000 pounds.

    Dual Tandem Wheels: Runway 2L-2OR, 360,000 pounds; 2R-2OL, 74,000 pounds; 13-31, 113,000 pounds.

    Smyrna Airport.

    Aircraft with Dual Wheels: Runway 14-32, 55,000 pounds; 18-36, 44,000 pounds.

    Dual Tandem Wheels: Runway 14-32, 92,000 pounds; 18-36, 70,000 pounds.

    Single Wheels. Runway 14-32, 15,000 pounds; 18-36, 30,000 pounds.

    Springfield Airport.

    Aircraft with Single Wheels: Runway 3-21, 15,000 pounds.

    C.

    No aircraft exceeding a gross weight of twelve thousand five hundred pounds shall be permitted to make a one-hundred-eighty-degree turn on any asphalt runway or taxiway on airport property, unless required to do so due to an operational necessity. The owner of an aircraft causing damage to the asphalt surface while executing an unauthorized one-hundred-eighty-degree turn on a runway or taxiway on airport property shall be responsible for the cost of repair to the surface.

(Prior code § 4A-1-29 (b)—(d))