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    Required Runway Length For Landing

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    This document discusses the FAA regulations regarding minimum required runway lengths for landing under Part 135 operations. The key requirements are: - The 60% rule requires turbine powered airplanes to be able to land and stop within 60% of the runway length. - For wet runways, the required runway length is 115% of the dry runway length calculation or the wet runway distance specified in the aircraft flight manual. - Cargo operators may be approved to use the 80% rule, where the landing distance must be within 80% of the runway length. - Minimum runway length is calculated by taking the actual landing distance and dividing by 60% or 80% depending on the rule used.

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    This document discusses the FAA regulations regarding minimum required runway lengths for landing under Part 135 operations. The key requirements are: - The 60% rule requires turbine powered airplanes to be able to land and stop within 60% of the runway length. - For wet runways, the required runway length is 115% of the dry runway length calculation or the wet runway distance specified in the aircraft flight manual. - Cargo operators may be approved to use the 80% rule, where the landing distance must be within 80% of the runway length. - Minimum runway length is calculated by taking the actual landing distance and dividing by 60% or 80% depending on the rule used.

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    This document discusses the FAA regulations regarding minimum required runway lengths for landing under Part 135 operations. The key requirements are: - The 60% rule requires turbine powered airplanes to be able to land and stop within 60% of the runway length. - For wet runways, the required runway length is 115% of the dry runway length calculation or the wet runway distance specified in the aircraft flight manual. - Cargo operators may be approved to use the 80% rule, where the landing distance must be within 80% of the runway length. - Minimum runway length is calculated by taking the actual landing distance and dividing by 60% or 80% depending on the rule used.

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    Required Runway Length For Landing

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    This document discusses the FAA regulations regarding minimum required runway lengths for landing under Part 135 operations. The key requirements are: - The 60% rule requires turbine powered airplanes to be able to land and stop within 60% of the runway length. - For wet runways, the required runway length is 115% of the dry runway length calculation or the wet runway distance specified in the aircraft flight manual. - Cargo operators may be approved to use the 80% rule, where the landing distance must be within 80% of the runway length. - Minimum runway length is calculated by taking the actual landing distance and dividing by 60% or 80% depending on the rule used.

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    Required runway length for landing

    The minimum runway length required for landing under Part 135 operations is, believe it or not,
    the same as Part 91: You need to be able to land and stop within the available runway length
    specified in the AFM. This is what you use when you are getting ready to land.

    That being said, since you reference the "60%/80% rules", there is a more stringent
    requirement that is required as part of your preflight planning and specified in 14 CFR 135.385

    60% Rule for Large Turbine Transport


    Category Airplanes
    This rule is specified in 14 CFR 135.385(b), and says (in part):

    no person operating a turbine engine powered large transport category airplane may take off
    that airplane unless its weight on arrival ... would allow a full stop landing at the intended
    destination airport within 60 percent of the effective length of each runway

    So to follow the regulation by the letter, you need to take 60% of the runway length and
    compare it to your actual landing distance.

    Example
    We want to land on a 6,000 ft. runway, so our max allowable landing distance is 3,600 ft.:

    6,000ft×60%=3,600ft

    Determining minimum runway length


    Sometimes pilots prefer to ask the question in a different way, and ask "what is the minimum
    runway distance needed for the current conditions" instead of "what can my maximum landing
    distance be. To calculate this, we simply re-arrange our formula above like this:

    Minimum Runway=Actual Landing Distance60%

    If our actual landing distance is 3,000 ft. then we would need a minimum field length of 5,000
    ft.:

    3,000ft60%=5,000ft

    80% Rule
    The 80% rule specified in 14 CFR 135.385(f) works exactly the same way, but can only be
    used by an "An eligible on-demand operator" if approved in accordance with their Operations
    Specifications (A057 and C049) and the procedures listed in their Flight Operations Manual.
    You would then replace the 60% with 80% in the above calculations.

    Wet Runways
    14 CFR 135.385(d) says:

    (d) Unless, based on a showing of actual operating landing techniques on wet runways, a
    shorter landing distance (but never less than that required by paragraph (b) of this section) has
    been approved for a specific type and model airplane and included in the Airplane Flight
    Manual, no person may take off a turbojet airplane when the appropriate weather reports or
    forecasts, or any combination of them, indicate that the runways at the destination airport may
    be wet or slippery at the estimated time of arrival unless the effective runway length at the
    destination airport is at least 115 percent of the runway length required under paragraph (b) of
    this section.

    So basically, you use the information from your AFM for wet runway landing distance, or if it
    isn't provided (since it isn't required), you do the same calculation that you did before but
    include an additional 15%.

    Example:
    Taking the example from the 60% rule and assuming that it is wet, we have a max landing
    distance of 3,130 ft.:

    6,000ft×60%115%=3,130ft

    Minimum Runway Length When Wet


    The minimum runway distance with a 3,000 ft. actual landing distance would be 5,750 ft.:

    3,000ft×115%60%=5,750ft

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