Airmanship One

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Airmanship One

• Airfields

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Objectives

• Understand Airfield Layouts
• Know how runways are numbered
• Know how runways taxiways are marked by day
  and night
• Know how approach lights guide an aircraft into
  land

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Types of Airfield

• Grass
• Triangle Pattern
• Main Instrument Runway

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Grass Airfield
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Triangle Pattern Airfield
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Types of Airfield

• What are the advantages and disadvantages of
• Grass airfields?
• Triangle pattern airfields?

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Modern Main Instrument Runway
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Modern Main Instrument Runway
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Aircraft are vulnerable to attack if lined up!
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Aircraft Dispersal (Battle of Britain 1940)
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Hardened Aircraft Shelter (HAS) 2004
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Exterior of Hardened Aircraft Shelter
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Damaged HAS in Iraq 2003
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QRA Take Off
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Wind Speed 20 Knots
Airspeed 80 Knots
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Wind Speed 20 Knots
Airspeed 80 Knots
Ground Speed 60 Knots
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Runways numbered by Magnetic Compass Bearing
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360
090
270
180
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315
045
135
225
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Runway 22 heading South West
Runway 04 (Reciprocal) heading North East
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Runways numbered by Magnetic Compass Bearing
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Runway 22 is heading SOUTH WEST
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Air Traffic Control
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Radar Controller
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Radar
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10 20 30 40
Primary Radar Display
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10 20 30 40
Primary Radar Display
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10 20 30 40
Primary Radar Display
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10 20 30 40
Primary Radar Display
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Windsock Wind Direction Strength
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Runway Taxiway Markings

• Runways marked in white
• Taxiways marked in yellow

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Taxiway Markings - Yellow
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Inactive Runways
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Runway Threshold
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Major Airport
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Touchdown markings
Runway number
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Threshold Markings
Displacement Markings
Sterile Area
Taxiway
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Threshold Markings
Displacement Markings
Sterile Area
Taxiway
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Threshold Markings
Displacement Markings
Sterile Area
Taxiway
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Threshold Markings
Displacement Markings
Sterile Area
Taxiway
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Airfield Lighting
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Taxiway Lighting Blue Edge Green Centre
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Precision Approach Path Indicators (PAPI)
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PAPIs on Ground
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Threshold (Green)
PAPIs (Red/White)
Approach Lights (White)
AIRFIELD APPROACH LIGHTING
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White Runway lights
Threshold Green Lights
Sterile Area
Red Obstruction Lights
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Precision Approach Path Indicators (PAPIs)
Threshold Lights
High Visibility T
Approach Lights
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Lining up on Approach
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TOO LOW!
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Landing on Runway 15 Birmingham Airport
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Why are taxiway lights and markings so important?
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Objectives

• Understand Airfield Layouts
• Know how runways are numbered
• Know how runways taxiways are marked by day
  and night
• Know how approach lights guide an aircraft into
  land

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Modern Main Instrument Runway
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Questions?
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Questions

• What does HAS stand for?
• What colour are obstruction lights?
• What colour are threshold lights?
• How are taxiways marked in daylight?
• What colours are taxiway lights?
• What is used on an airfield to show wind
  direction?

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Questions

• How are runways numbered?
• True or False Pilots will usually choose to take
  off with the wind behind them.
• What is a Sterile Area?
• How is a Sterile Area marked?

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Threshold Markings
Displacement Markings
Sterile Area
Taxiway
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Acknowledgments

• Mr Richard Heaton, Professional Flight Instructor
  and CI with 489 (Acocks Green) Sqn for assistance
  with this project
• Civil Aviation Authority (for use of their
  diagrams)
• MOD Website
• No.2 Welsh Wing (OC 2518 Flint Sqn)