The Peachtree Airport in Atlanta serves light aircraft. It has a single runway and one air traffic controller to land planes. It takes an airplane 8 minutes to land and clear the runway. Planes arrive at the airport at the rate of 5 per hour.
A) Determine the average number of planes that will stack up waiting to land.
B)Find the average time a plane must wait in line before it can land.
C) Calculate the average time it takes a plane to clear the runway once it has notified the airport that it is in the vicinity and wants to land.
D)The FAA has a rule that an air traffic controlle rcan, on average, land planes a maximum of 45 minutes out of every hour. There must be 15 minutes of idle time available torelieve the tension. Will this airport have to hire an extraair traffic controller?