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UNIT 1Airport Surface Operations

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Part-I

AIRPORT LAYOUT

Objectives

After reading this unit, you will be able to:

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Define Aerodrome and Runway

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Understand PEPI and AGL

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Discuss Instrument Landing System (ILS)

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Know about RADAR

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Have Control of Departing Aircraft

Unit 1

Airport Surface Operations

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Aviation Safety and Security Management

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AIRPORT

Aerodrome or airport is defined as a defined area on land orwater (including any buildings, installations and equipment)intended to be used either wholly or in part for the arrival,departure and surface movement of aircraft.Airport is a wide term, used in a broad manner. Normally,what a passenger feels that the airport consists of only theterminal building where he purchases his air ticket, boardsand disembarks the plane. In fact the terminal building is just one part of the airport, and in totality it includes a lotmany other features, some of them extremely important, suchas runways, taxiways, apron, air traffic control, apron (WithParking Stands), Hangar, Radio Navigational aids,Communication facilities etc. etc.Normally the airport is divided into two basic parts, 'cityside' and 'air side'. 'City side' is what a travelling passengeris well familiar with and includes airport terminal building,ticket counters, airline and other offices, waiting halls,security lounges, customs, immigration, outside car park,cargo building, outside roads etc. The 'air side' consists of the areas of the airport used mainly for aircraft operationpurposes like runways, taxiways, apron, Radio Navigationalaids, landing aids etc.In addition, Airport support elements include air trafficcontrol tower, aircraft rescue and fire fighting (ARFF)facilities, airport administration facilities, fuel storage, Citymaintenance facilities, Medical Centre, Catering and utilitysystems etc.To start with we can discuss these items one by one in brief.

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Runway

(RWY)

is a defined rectangular area on a landaerodrome used for landing and take-off of aircraft. Runwayson an established aerodrome may be a man-made surface(often asphalt, concrete, or a mixture of both), and for smallaerodromes it could also be a natural surface (grass, dirt, orgravel).

Orientation and dimensions

The runways are named according to their Magnetic Bearings(the direction it is "pointing towards") with reference toNorth rounded to nearest 100. The runway number is thewhole number nearest one-tenth the magnetic azimuth of the centre line of the runway, measured clockwise from themagnetic north. As two 'ends of the runway' point out in twodifferent directions (Each separated by 1800), thus eachrunway has two names separated by 1800. For example theRunways at Delhi (IGI Airport) are 09/27 & 10/28 andRunways at Mumbai are 09/27 & 14/32.Each digit of runway name is pronounced separately forclarity in radio communications. Thus, Runway Three Sixwould be aligned in roughly a 360 degrees direction (i.e.

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