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... 12 C H A P T E R 3 Airport Pavement Maintenance Recommendation Tool Users' Guide
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... Airport Pavement Maintenance Recommendation Tool Users' Guide 13 This users' guide provides step-by-step guidance on how to use the Airport Pavement Maintenance Recommendation Tool. To use this tool, you will need to determine your airport parameters and distress type/severity.
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... 14 Pavement Maintenance Guidelines for General Aviation Airport Management Enter your state. This is a required field.
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... Airport Pavement Maintenance Recommendation Tool Users' Guide 15 Pick your facility's FAA Airport Classification. Note that your entries up to this point will be retained on your computer or tablet for subsequent evaluations with the tool.
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... 16 Pavement Maintenance Guidelines for General Aviation Airport Management Input Distress Type and Severity Choose the type of pavement used in the feature being evaluated. Click Add/Identify a Distress to begin describing the distress(es)
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... Airport Pavement Maintenance Recommendation Tool Users' Guide 17 Hover your cursor over each distress and click the Circle-i icon to view an information box describing it.
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... 18 Pavement Maintenance Guidelines for General Aviation Airport Management Select an appropriate choice under Select an Amount & Severity. When you choose a distress, a second group of choices will appear, as well as photos of the distress.
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... Airport Pavement Maintenance Recommendation Tool Users' Guide 19 Select a Treatment Type When you do so, a summary table appears listing a recommended and acceptable treatment. In the treatment cells, click the graph icon to view a PCI curve, indicating the estimated increased performance that the treatment can do to extend the life of the pavement being evaluated.
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... 20 Pavement Maintenance Guidelines for General Aviation Airport Management See Chapter 5 in this guidebook for information about the relative benefit and benefit/cost numbers. If the current feature is experiencing just one distress, skip to the Ballpark Estimator.
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... Airport Pavement Maintenance Recommendation Tool Users' Guide 21 Input Additional Distresses If the current feature is experiencing more than one distress, again click Add/Identify a Distress and follow the preceding steps to identify as many distresses as applicable. In most cases, a single treatment table will appear in the Final Analysis section, combining the recommended and acceptable treatments for the distresses identified.
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... 22 Pavement Maintenance Guidelines for General Aviation Airport Management Get a Cost/Benefit Estimate Click the Use the Ballpark Benefit/Cost Estimator for all treatments? checkbox to view and adjust cost estimates for treating the current feature.
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... Airport Pavement Maintenance Recommendation Tool Users' Guide 23 These costs are based on the cost basis numbers for each treatment. You may adjust these costs as needed per treatment.
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... View Your Results To clear your feature inputs to start evaluating another feature, click Clear. To print the screen from your browser, click the Print Report button.

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