Analyze Aerodrome Obstacle Limitation Surfaces

For airport planners, tracking permanent and temporary obstacles at the airport or in its vicinity is vital for safe operations. SkySAFE™, a CAD-based software, allows users to accurately and efficiently analyze obstacles to ensure these do not penetrate or threaten the obstacle limitation surfaces (OLS) defined in regulatory guidelines. SkySAFE is an effective tool for airport planners, operators and safety managers involved in protecting and monitoring the airfield and its runway departure and approach paths.

Logical Workflow for Accuracy and Ease of Use

SkySAFE’s workflow processes ensure that no critical entry item is missed. The software is based on user input and software program methods that provide the utmost in accuracy with regard to items such as runway types (lengths and widths), displaced thresholds, longitudinal runway elevations, surface locations and dimensions, and overall 3D depictions. All this means a reduction in CAD drawing time and decreased plan generation costs.

Fixed or Temporary Obstacles

Once an airport’s operational environment has been modeled with SkySAFE, only a few clicks are required to analyze the impact of fixed objects such as buildings, power lines, lighting pylons or trees. What’s more, these same commands can also be used to quickly and efficiently analyze temporary obstacles, such as mobile cranes. Obstacles are uniquely numbered with logical filtering to review only those that penetrate the protected airspace, quantified with the delta elevation above the surface.

International and National RegulationsSkySAFE features a toolset to generate ICAO, EASA, FAA, Transport Canada, BMVBW (Germany) or PSA (France) limitation surfaces in a 2D or 3D environment.
Terrain Interference AnalysisSkySAFE offers functions for fast and reliable analysis based on geographical input. These capabilities can be utilized to create a SkySAFE terrain from imported survey coordinate data, or reference an Autodesk Civil 3D® surface, to assess resulting clearances and potential interference with approach and departure procedures.
Complex Multi-runway EnvironmentsAccurately model an airport’s operational environment, with single or multiple runways, parallel or crossing. A single merged surface model can be generated for all runways, or surfaces can be created individually, all in just a matter of seconds. Further details such as contour lines or cross sections can be added to further communicate results.