Runways, taxiways and aprons captured between movements. A 3,660 m runway surveyed in the ninety minutes between the last arrival and the first departure, and back on the record before the airfield reopens.
Capture · Mission 10
The sheet above is a drawing of this. 12 capture waypoints, and every finding called as the aircraft reaches it — scroll sets the target, the mission keeps its own pace, and the page waits for it.
Sector · Airports
Ninety minutes between the last arrival and the first departure. The sortie flies the 09L slope from a kilometre out, reads the touchdown zone at fourteen metres, holds at the CAT I bar while a diversion lands ahead of it, works the stand line and the hangars — then goes inside, down the length of Pier B at gate level, and hands the record to the operator walking the concourse. The airfield goes back with twelve minutes on the clock.
The window is ninety minutes and it starts when the last aircraft is off. Nobody knows when that is until forty minutes beforehand, and the survey either flies then or waits a week.
Missions are planned against the window rather than the calendar: the dock launches on release, the route is ordered so the runway is done before the taxiways, and the pack shows what was captured and what stayed on the ground.
Pavement condition is a walk with a clipboard down 3,660 m of runway, and the result is only as consistent as whoever walked it last.
The same inspection runs on the same slabs every cycle — cracking, spalling, rubber deposit, joint sealant — each item located on the pavement grid and photographed, so the PCN evidence file builds rather than gets reconstructed.
Longitudinal grade, transverse fall and the tolerance either side of the centreline are the whole job. A survey that drifts two centimetres over 3.6 km is not a survey.
Every capture is tied to the airfield's own control and checked against known marks before it is accepted — ±1.2 cm horizontal on the centreline, and the number it was made to travels with it.
3,660 m
Runway captured inside one window between movements
84
Pavement sections with current PCN evidence on file
±1.2 cm
Horizontal on the centreline, checked against airfield control
The window opens when the last aircraft is off and nobody knows when that is until forty minutes before. The program is planned against that window, flies it runway-first, and hands the airfield back with proof of what it captured.
Each night window, launched on release
The dock launches when the airfield releases — 23:52 on the record night — and the runway is flown threshold to threshold before anything else, so the pavement that matters most is never the piece that gets cut.
RWY 3,660M · 0.8CM · MISSIONS 4Same window, once the runway is done
Taxiways and stands ride the back half of the window. The pack shows what was captured and what stayed on the ground, so the next window starts where this one ended instead of starting over.
TWY B · STANDS 12–19 · 00:31Every capture, before the data is accepted
Every capture is tied to the airfield's own control and checked against known marks before it is accepted — ±1.2 cm horizontal on the centreline, with the number it was made to attached.
FIX ±1.2CM · SATS 31 · BASELINE 3,660M4×/yr, same slabs every cycle
Cracking, spalling, rubber deposit and joint sealant are located on the pavement grid and photographed on the same slabs every cycle, so the PCN evidence file builds instead of getting reconstructed.
PCN · SECTIONS 84 · CYCLE 4×/YRThat is what the program is planned against. The dock launches on release — on the record night the airfield came free at 23:40, the runway was flown from 23:52, and the airfield was handed back at 00:58.
RELEASED 23:40 · HANDED BACK 00:58The route is ordered so the runway is done before the taxiways, and the pack shows what was captured and what stayed on the ground. Four missions per window, runway first — the next window picks up the remainder.
MISSIONS 4 · RUNWAY FIRSTLongitudinal grade and transverse fall are the whole job, so every capture is tied to airfield control and reports its residuals: ±1.2 cm horizontal on the centreline over a 3,660 m baseline, verified before the data is accepted.
FIX ±1.2CM · BASELINE 3,660MNobody with a clipboard. The same inspection runs on the same slabs every cycle — 84 pavement sections with current PCN evidence on file, four cycles a year, each defect located on the grid and photographed.
PCN · SECTIONS 84 · CYCLE 4×/YRBefore the morning movements. Capture lands processed on the record in 40 minutes, so a runway flown at midnight is readable at breakfast — with 12 minutes of the record night's window never even used.
CAPTURE→RECORD 40MIN · 12MIN UNUSEDRead overnight on an airfield like this one: the night window's four missions, the control residuals against GR-01, the pavement grid and the movement schedule. Three of the 27 profiles wake up to it.
06:20 · AIRSIDE · RWY 09/27
HANDOVER
The airfield came back at 00:58 with 22 minutes of window unused — runway, Taxiway B and stands 12–19 are on the record, and nothing was left on the pavement at reopening.
CITES: MISSION LOG · WINDOW 23:40–01:10
05:40 · RWY 09/27 · CENTRELINE
SEQUENCE
Last night's capture holds ±1.2 cm on the centreline against GR-01, so grade and transverse fall are argued from the record this morning — tonight's window goes to the works, not a re-survey.
CITES: FIX ±1.2CM · CONTROL GR-01 · 31 SATS
07:20 · PAVEMENT GRID · 84 SECTIONS
TREND
Rubber deposit and joint sealant logged on the same slabs as last cycle — the PCN file for all 84 sections builds by itself, four cycles a year, instead of being reconstructed for the audit.
CITES: PCN FILE · SECTIONS 84 · CYCLE 4×/YR
One calendar for every autonomous capture on the portfolio
MISSIONS ON A CYCLEEvery measurement states the accuracy it was made to
FIX ±1.2CM · SATS 28Your checklists, structured, on every phase gate
TEMPLATES 214Scheduled flights from a rooftop box; nobody drives to site
2×/DAY · 0 PILOTSData lands processed before the morning huddle
CAPTURE→RECORD 40MINFigures are a specimen record, drawn to the platform's own conventions.
Tell us when the last movement is off — we will plan the missions against the window and have the runway on the record before the airfield reopens.