Airport Management
AIRSIDE & AIRFIELD
-airport is a complex intermodal transportation facility: air, roads, rail, water (planes, cars, busses, boats, trucks, subways…) -airport provides air transportation services to people and cargo, and other services to aircraft like maintenance, fuel, catering, cleaning etc -remember the intense regulations? Airport related FAR’s: 71,73,75,77,91,93,95,97,99,101,103,105,150,155,157,161 -airspace designation, air traffic & operating rules, environmental rules, funding rules, and so forth -airports have two major operational components *airside includes the airfield and airspace *landside includes the terminal, ground access, parking (discussed in subsequent unit) -sound management requires thinking about the airfield as four dimensional: length, width, depth, and time
-airfield includes the runways, taxiways, holding aprons & parking areas & penalty box, gate apron/ramp, maintenance and run up apron, vehicle access roads, cargo ramp, separation/clear areas, facilities & equipment areas like navaids or lights or radar, ARFF station, deicing/snow removal, fueling, incinerator/garbage disposal, regional jet terminal & apron, bus stations
-some are Aircraft Movement Areas, some are Non-Movement Areas -rule-of-thumb: ATC controls aircraft movement areas, airport/airlines control non-movement areas -don’t be mislead, a lot of movement happens in “nonmovement” areas; accidents happen, undirected and uncontrolled movement can result in vehicle and aircraft collisions…quite costly in many ways
-let’s take a closer look at some of the airside operating components; remember, some of the practices and design elements are by way of the physics of flight, others are by way of FAA regulation (usually reflecting the physics part)
1. RUNWAYS: -pretty important to an airport, more so to an airplane -FAA regs on virtually everything about a runway from design to use e.g.-length, width, orientation, configuration of multiples, slope, thickness,
-airport is a complex intermodal transportation facility: air, roads, rail, water (planes, cars, busses, boats, trucks, subways…) -airport provides air transportation services to people and cargo, and other services to aircraft like maintenance, fuel, catering, cleaning etc -remember the intense regulations? Airport related FAR’s: 71,73,75,77,91,93,95,97,99,101,103,105,150,155,157,161 -airspace designation, air traffic & operating rules, environmental rules, funding rules, and so forth -airports have two major operational components *airside includes the airfield and airspace *landside includes the terminal, ground access, parking (discussed in subsequent unit) -sound management requires thinking about the airfield as four dimensional: length, width, depth, and time
-airfield includes the runways, taxiways, holding aprons & parking areas & penalty box, gate apron/ramp, maintenance and run up apron, vehicle access roads, cargo ramp, separation/clear areas, facilities & equipment areas like navaids or lights or radar, ARFF station, deicing/snow removal, fueling, incinerator/garbage disposal, regional jet terminal & apron, bus stations
-some are Aircraft Movement Areas, some are Non-Movement Areas -rule-of-thumb: ATC controls aircraft movement areas, airport/airlines control non-movement areas -don’t be mislead, a lot of movement happens in “nonmovement” areas; accidents happen, undirected and uncontrolled movement can result in vehicle and aircraft collisions…quite costly in many ways
-let’s take a closer look at some of the airside operating components; remember, some of the practices and design elements are by way of the physics of flight, others are by way of FAA regulation (usually reflecting the physics part)
1. RUNWAYS: -pretty important to an airport, more so to an airplane -FAA regs on virtually everything about a runway from design to use e.g.-length, width, orientation, configuration of multiples, slope, thickness,