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... 15 This synthesis report has documented practices that are in use by some state aviation agencies, airports, and metropolitan planning organizations to count and estimate airport operations at non-towered airports. This study revealed that the following methods are being used across the United States and that these methods vary in accuracy: • Count traffic year-round, • Sample traffic and extrapolate annual operations, • Multiply a predetermined number of operations per based aircraft by the total aircraft based at the airport, • Perform regression analysis, and • Ask the airport manager or personnel associated with the airport.
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... 16 performance measures, FAA Airport Master Record Form 5010 reporting, system planning, justification for navigational aids, and airport planning studies. Because the most common method for estimating aircraft operations (asking the airport manager or other airport personnel)

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