How to drive on an airport, as an employee in airport operations

1. By Jared Fleischer

2. What Is The Airfield?

3. What Is The Airfield?
Landside
○ Landside areas include parking lots, public
transportation, train stations and access roads
Airside
○ Airside areas include all areas accessible to
aircraft, including runways, taxiways and
ramps

4. What Skills Do You Need?

5. What Skills Do You Need?
Proper radio phraseology and etiquette
Situational awareness
Keen eye
Attention to detail (ex. a taxiway light out)

6. Tests
90% or greater on written exam
Familiarization
Where is everything located?
Driving Test
Lectures
Detailed lectures on FARs (federal acquisition
regulation), rules, etc.

7. How Do You Talk On The
Radio?
In this order:
Who you are speaking to
Who you are
Location
State Request
○ Keep it short!!!
EX: Lafayette Tower, 580PU holding short
runway 23, requesting departure to North

8. Airport Signage
RED = contact ATC before proceeding.
Hold short here
BLACK with yellow border = Location
sign
YELLOW = Direction sign

10. Airport Lighting
Taxiway
Edge – blue
Centerline – green
Runway Guard Lights – flash yellow
Runway
End – 4 lights, omnidirectional, green
approaching, red from ground
Edge – white, yellow with 2000 ft remaining
Centerline – white, alternating white/red
2000 ft remaining, red 1000 ft remaining

11. Airport Markings
Taxiway
Centerline – solid single yellow line
Edge – solid double yellow line
Runway Hold Short Position – 4 yellow lines,
2 solid, 2 dashed
Runway
Centerline – white lines
TDZ – massive white rectangles, 1000 ft.
from beginning of runway
Numbers – white, indicates runway heading