Originally Posted by
Time Traveller
RPB 5/5/5 - is that a pirep? .. of good BA?
Actually RCC - Runway Condition Codes for each third of the runway. According to a table posted above these represent the runway condition description as reported by the airport operator. I believe this system was put in place in response to Southwest's fatal 737 runway overrrun at MDW in 2005.
There are pages of conditions and qualifiers for these runway numbers in bulletins and ops manuals.
For example:
