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A runway is being constructed in a new airport as per the international Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) recommendations. The elevation and the airport reference temperature of the airport are 535 m above the mean sea level and 22.65 oC, respectively. Consider the effective gradient of runway as 1%. The length of the runway required for a design-aircraft under the standard conditions is 2000 m. Within the framework of applying sequential corrections as per the ICAO recommendations, the length of runway corrected for the temperature is

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2500 m
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2750 m
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2223 m
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2250 m
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Solution

The correct option is A 2500 m
Correction for elevation;
7% increase per 300 m
So, correction =7100×535300×2000=249.66 m
Corrected length =2000+249.66=2249.66 m
Correction for temperature :
Standard atmospheric temperature
=150.0065×535=11.5225oC
Rise of temp,=22.65oC11.523oC=11.127o
Correction =2249.66100×11.127=250.320 m
Correct length =2249.66+250.320=2499.98m
Check for total correction for elevation plus temperature
Total correction %=2299.9820002000×100=24.99
According to ICAO, this should not exceed by 35%

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