Flight movement

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In aviation, flight movement is the general term for take-offs and landings . The number of flight movements per time span is used as a statistical variable, primarily for describing and evaluating the capacity and utilization of airfields . The take-off and landing count as individual flight movements. With regard to aircraft noise - in addition to numerous other factors - the number of aircraft movements and their distribution over the course of the day play an important role. Large commercial airports such as Hartsfield – Jackson Atlanta International Airport currently handle up to 950,000 flight movements per year.

In the context of air traffic control and military airspace monitoring , the term flight movement can also generally be understood to mean the movement of an aircraft in the monitored airspace .

See also

The list of the largest commercial airports provides an overview of the annual number of flight movements at the largest airports worldwide.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Flight movement, the. In: duden.de. Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, accessed on September 13, 2012 : "Meaning: Take-off or landing of an aircraft" 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Niels Klußmann, Arnim Malik: Lexicon of aviation . 3rd, updated and expanded edition. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-22499-7 , pp. 87 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-22500-0 .