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Feasibility study finds crosswind‑runway extension and EMAS costly, limited benefit
Summary
An ESA planning update showed a maximum pavement extension would yield only modest takeoff improvements while EMAS beds would be substantially more expensive; board consensus was that neither option is a near‑term priority.
The Naples Airport Authority received a high‑level feasibility briefing from ESA on potential ways to increase capability on the crosswind runway (Runway 14/32), and commissioners raised safety, operational and land‑use limits.
Joe Halisky, senior aviation planner with ESA, summarized existing declared distances and displaced thresholds and noted the crosswind runway’s landing length would remain limited by displaced thresholds even with pavement added. ESA presented two concepts that avoid…
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