Preparing the Visual Approach Chart using GIS Technology - Tirana Airport Case Study

This paper presents analysis and display of the Visual Approach Chart for Tirana Airport prepared using GIS technologies for flight operation purpose according to Annex 4 ICAO [ICAO ? International Civil Aviation Organization, Annex 4 - Aeronautical Charts, https://www.icao.int]. To accomplish these objectives, the following steps have been taken: Analysing Annex 4 ICAO; Initiating an aeronautical information (AIS) exchange language model database AIXM; Field surveying of obstacles using GPS and TS; Analysing obstacles and dominant obstacles; Taking in consideration and analysing other hazards to flight operation. The paper concludes that this map should be monitored for any feature change. Every change should be reflected in database. The software ArcGIS Aviation is a very good tool to analyze and create a Visual Chart for the Airports purposes.