The Continuing Florida Aviation Systems Planning Process (CFASPP) was established by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) as a method for continually monitoring and maintaining a viable statewide aviation environment and determining the development requirements to best meet projected aviation demands.

The objective of FAA, FDOT and CFASPP is to maintain and enhance the Florida aviation system.  A primary function of CFASPP is to help keep the Florida Aviation System Plan (FASP) in step with the continually changing aviation environment by continually updating the FASP.

To support the CFASPP, FDOT has identified nine centers of aviation activity.  Each center is called either a "Region" or "Metropolitan Area".  A Region is an area containing several communities with common aviation ties to each other due to geographic and economic characteristics.  A Metropolitan Area is a portion of the state with interrelationships between airports and a common economic base due to contiguous urban development.  The CFASPP contains five aviation regions and four metropolitan areas.

The Statewide and nine regional CFASPP Steering Committees guide the FASP 2025 “continuous” update by reviewing aviation activity forecasts, air transportation demands for each community, and a variety of statewide and regional aviation issues.  Throughout this process, they help define roles for airports and development requirements to meet the total Florida air transportation demand.  CFASPP Steering Committees are autonomous and are responsible for managing the twenty-year regional and metropolitan area aviation system plans from which the FASP is derived. 

The FASP 2025 is the third major five year update to the Florida Aviation System Plan.  It includes both a planning component and the development of an aviation database.  In addition to the extensive analysis and discussions concerning demand/capacity, airspace, forecast, surface access, facilities, etc., included in this effort, the FASP 2025 Planning Component includes analysis and discussions of: (1) a range of intermodal issues related to Florida's aviation industry; (2) the rapidly expanding civilian flight training and related systems planning activity; (3) air cargo; (4) helicopter and vertical lift systems planning; and (5) the economic impacts of Florida's airports AND airport projects on the local communities and the state.  All of this effort combined with the participation of the CFASPP Steering Committees guide the dynamic and growing Florida aviation industry.