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Overview of Airport Pavement Strength Rating (OAPSR EN)

Objective

The course provides airport management, regulator and airline staff required to work within and implement the new aircraft classification rating – pavement classification rating (ACR-PCR) system, with the competencies required to manage the transition from aircraft classification number-pavement classification number (ACN-PCN) to ACR-PCR system, in accordance with the ICAO ACR-PCR method as detailed in the Aerodrome Design Manual Part 3 (Pavements) 2022 edition.

Learning objectives

  • Learning Objectives
  • Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to: ‎
  • Describe the benefits of the new ACR-PCR system.
  • Identify unreasonable PCR values when compared to current PCN values.

Structure

  1. Module 0: Module 0: Introduction
  2. Module 1: Module 1: Overview of Airport Pavement Strength Rating

Target audience

  • The target audience for this course is staff who interact with the the ACR-PCR system for route planning, airport pavement management and airport regulation purposes. The target audience will include:
  • Airline flight operations staff
  • Airport operations and management staff
  • State CAA staff