identification Flashcards
•LOCATION from which AIRCRAFT FLIGHT OPERATIONS take place, involves AIR CARGO, or PASSENGERS.
•PLACE where flights TAKEOFF and LAND
•include small generation aviation airfields, large commercial airports, and military air bases.
•According to ICAO “A defined AREA on LAND AND WATER”
Aerodrome
•PLACE where operations relating to FLIGHT ARRIVAL, DEPARTURE & SERVICES are carried out.
•offers FACILITIES to passengers including LOUNGE, RESTO ETC.
•passengers CONNECT from ground transpo to air transpo
•and AIRCRAFT can be stored here
•should have runway for takeoffs and landing, a hangars and terminal buildings
Airport
an AIRPORT can store an?
Aircraft
an AIRPORT other than the MILITARY AIRPORT. An AERODROME CERTIFICATED for COMMERCIAL FLIGHTS.
Civil Airport
An AERODROME used as a MILITARY BASE by a MILITARY FORCE for the operation of MILITARY AIRCRAFT.
Some of this have REVETMENTS, HARDENED AIRCRAFT SHELTERS, UNDERGROUND HANGARS, to protect aircraft from an enemy attack. May be defended by ANTI-AIRCRAFT WEAPONS and FORCE PROTECTION troops
Air Base
require storage of AIRCRAFT ORDNANCE
Combat Aircraft
•SMALL AERODROME that consists only a RUNWAY with FUELING EQUIPMENTS
•in REMOTE LOCATIONS
•MOSTLY ABANDONED were built on the hundreds of islands in the PACIFIC OCEAN during WW2
Airstrip
•AKA SEAPLANE BASE
•an AREA of OPEN WATER used regularly by SEAPLANES, FLOATPLANES, and AMPHIBIOUS AIRCRAFT for landing or taking off
•may have a terminal building on land and/or a place where the plane can come to SHORE AND DOCK like a BOAT to load and unload
Water Aerodrome
equipment and SERVICES for the MOVEMENT OF AIRCRAFT
Airside Activity
equipment, STRUCTURES, and services related to PASSENGERS and GOODS
Landside Activity
a BUILDING at an AIRPORT where passengers TRANSFER between ground transportation and the facilities that allow them to board and disembark from an aircraft.
Airport Terminal
•AKA FLIGHT LINE/RAMP
•area of an airport where an aircraft are parked, unloaded or loaded, refilled, or boarded
•not usually open to the general public and a permit may be required to access.
•is also used to identify the ATC position responsible for coordinating movement on this surface at busier airports
Apron
PATH for aircraft at an airport CONNECTING RUNWAYS with APRONS, HANGARS, TERMINALS, and other facilities
Taxiway
•According to ICAO, it’s a “DEFINED RECTANGULAR AREA ON LAND AERODROME prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft”
Runway
can be made out of WATER for SEAPLANES is called?
Waterways
