Midterm Quiz 2 Flashcards
It is planned and managed to accommodate the movement of aircraft around the airport as well as to and from the air.
Airside
Component includes all the facilities located on the physical property of the airport to facilitate aircraft operation
Airfield
Are planned and managed to accommodate the movement of ground based vehicles, passengers, and cargo. These components are further categorized to reflect the specific users being served
Landside
Designed to facilitate the movement of passenger and luggage from the landside to aircraft on the airside
Terminal
Accommodates the movement of ground-based vehicles to and from the surrounding metropolitan area, as well as between the various buildings found on the airport property.
Ground acess
Meaning of ARFF
Air Rescue and Fire Fighting
Airfield
Runway
Taxiway
Aircraft parking areas
Navigational aids
Lighting system
Signages
Markings
Man made surface or natural surface
Runway
Marking color of the runway
White
Lights of taxiway
Blue
how runway orientation is decided
Wind
Factors affecting runway orientation
Wind
Airspace availability
Environmental factors
Obstruction
Atc visibility
Wildlife hazard
Terrain and soil conditions
Remain useful for 20-40 years
Concrete
Less expensive. 15-20 years
Flexible
Airport Terminal area
Passenger and cargo terminal bldg
Aircraft parking
Loading area
Unloading area
➢ Primary entrance point for passengers
➢ Intended to assist passengers moving from the landside
to the airside of an airport
➢ Terminal designs range from small one room buildings to
multi-building island configurations that stretch across
several miles.
➢ Terminals may include baggage, security, offices,
restaurants, shopping areas, and more
Terminal
First centralized facilities
Contained all required passenger processing facilities for a given air carrier in a single unit bldg
Passenger processing facilities
Administrative processing facilities
ATC facilities
Simple Unit Terminals
Two or more airlines would share a common building, slightly
larger than a simple unit terminal, but have separate passenger
and baggage processing facilities
Combined unit terminal
In larger metropolitan
areas, separate
buildings were
constructed for each
airline, each building
behaving as its own
unit terminal.
Multiple-unit terminal
A centralized layout
that is aimed at
reducing the overall
size of terminal areas
by bringing automobile
parking as close as
possible to aircraft
parking.
Gate arrival concept
Multiple unit terminal is centralized or not?
Yes
concept evolved in the 1950s
when gate concourses were added to simple unit
terminal buildings. Concourses also known as ———— offered the opportunity to maximize the number
of aircraft parking spaces with less infrastructure.
Pier or fingers
Decentralized facilities
Pier finger terminal
formed as
concourses extended from main-unit terminal buildings with aircraft
parked at the end of the concourse around a round atrium or satellite
area. Satellite gates are usually served by a common passenger holding
area.
Pier satellite terminal