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Owner self-reported — never independently field-inspected
Location confidence
No coordinate anomaly detected
Terrain cross-check (USGS 3DEP)
FAA 655 ft MSL · USGS ground 487 ft · Δ 168 ft
Differential consistent with an elevated / rooftop pad
Structure cross-check (Overture / OSM)
Rooftop pad — the coordinate falls on a building footprint
Building height ≈ 65 ft — measured independently of the FAA record
Cross-source consensus
Corroborated — terrain and structure agree (2/2 sources)
Cross-checked against independent public data — USGS 3DEP terrain, Overture/OSM building footprints, the federal hospital registry, and measured dimensions. The State of the U.S. Heliport Record →
eVTOL readiness
INFEASIBLE WITHOUT REMEDIATIONConversion feasibility · four readings, one line each
Obstruction screen
Severe
High obstacle within 0.5 nm conflicts with the expanded footprint and the 8:1 approach surface.
Geometry
Requires 54 feet of expansion
Recorded pad side 46 ft against a 100 ft eVTOL FATO.
Structural FATO
Unverified
The full 100 × 100 ft FATO must be load-bearing. The FAA does not record structural capacity, so no record can confirm it.
Overall
Infeasible without remediation
A high obstacle conflicts with the expanded footprint. Remediation or a different site.
The recorded pad is 54 ft short of the 100 ft footprint an eVTOL would need — shown to scale.
recorded pad eVTOL FATO
Recorded pad (limiting side)
46 ft
eVTOL FATO required
100 ft
FAA EB-105 vertiport pattern — 2× a ~50 ft eVTOL controlling dimension, plus a 125 ft safety-area side.
Load-bearing FATO
100 × 100 ft must be structural
No heliport precedent — typically the binding gate for rooftop and hospital pads.
Measured against FAA pad geometry and federal FATO sizing (EB-105). The obstruction screen is the only reading the engine verdict rests on; geometry and structural capacity are stated separately and never folded into it. A dimensional pre-screen — site-level validation required, and independent of the underwriting risk score.
Observed eVTOL activity is arriving around a pad that cannot take it: 14 observed flights in the last 30 days at 1 endpoint within 15 nm (nearest KCHO, 7 nm), while this hospital pad holds an airspace determination and records a 46 ft pad, under the 50 ft eVTOL FATO floor.
Situations are rules-based inferences across the obstruction, observed-operations and record layers, re-evaluated nightly; each carries its evidence and closes when the condition no longer holds.
FAA OEAAA airspace determinations2
Airspace clearance
On file as archived / procedural records — no standing clearance to track.
Filing activity
Most recent determination 2016-05-19
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2016-AEA-758-NRA2017-04-17
Heliport · 165 ft AGL — Construct a secondary Helipad\r\nin existing Location. LocID 8VA5.
NRAARCH-DeterminedASN 2012-AEA-159-NRA2012-06-04
Heliport · 159 ft AGL — Establish roof top heliport at the Univ of VA Hosp Charlottsville VA
Safety history (NTSB)1
Fatal event history
1 NTSB helicopter event within 3 nm since 2010 (1 accident, 1 fatal); most recent 2017-08-12.
NTSB helicopter accidents & incidents geocoded within 3 nm of this pad and attributed to the nearest facility — proximity, not a determination that an event occurred at this site. Source: NTSB aviation accident database.
Blueprint
The record vs. what we measured
64/100
DATA INTEGRITY
Surface elevation
The FAA record places this pad at 655 ft. USGS terrain plus the building put the actual rooftop at 552 ft — a -103 ft difference the federal record doesn’t carry.
eVTOL footprint
The 46 ft pad is 54 ft short of the 100 ft an eVTOL FATO requires (measured).
SIGNALFEDERAL RECORDMEASURED
Surface elevation655 ft552 ft · USGS+structure
Structurenot on recordRooftop pad
Pad dimensions46 ft side (filed)46 ft side · measured
Coordinate integrityas filedterrain cross-checked
Independent inspectionowner self-reportednone on record
✓Federal record
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✓Cross-checkedUSGS · Overture · dimensions
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3Physically verifiedGround Truth capture
Obstructions, exact FATO geometry, surface condition, and downwash exposure require a physical Ground Truth capture — not shown above as measured. A field verification completes the record and writes the measured truth to this facility’s authority.
This page is the public data-integrity record. The full RiskIndex assessment — Q1–Q5 compliance, dimensional / FATO analysis, an underwriting-grade risk score, peer benchmark, and a sealed Site Intelligence Report — is available on request.
UVA HEALTH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (FAA 8VA5). AirIndex facility record aix:hp:Z100ZTGT. Verifiable at https://www.airindex.io/verify/aix:hp:Z100ZTGT.