Your guide to ramp safety

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Your guide to ramp safety
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Table of contents
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• Ramp driving permit
• Movement area, manoeuvring area, apron
• Speed limits
• Right of way
• Safety
• Weather conditions
• Markings

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Ramp driving permit and surface area definitions
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• 1 Movement area (all of below)

2 Manoeuvring area (taxiways and runway)
3 Apron (close-in taxiing and parking of
aircraft)
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Manoeuvring area
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It is forbidden to drive on the manoeuvring area
(runway and taxiways)
forbidden
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Manoeuvring area
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Speed limits
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The speed should never exceed that warranted by
the circumstances
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Vehicles must either stop for or yield to
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• Moving aircraft
• - Being pushed back
• - Being towed
• - Moving under their own power
• Boarding or disembarking passengers
• Passenger buses withpassengers on board
• Follow-me vehicles on a mission

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Vehicles must either stop for or yield to
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Yield to all vehicles with flashing blue or
orange lights
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• Fire brigade
• Police
• Ambulances

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Yield to all vehicles with flashing blue or
orange lights
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• Passenger buses with passengers on board
• Follow-me vehicles
• Sweeping vehicles
• Snow plows and snow removal vehicles

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Yield to all vehicles with flashing blue or
orange lights
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Jet blast
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• Never enter the intake or blast areas

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Jet blast
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• INTAKE (suction) avoid approaching closer than
  15 meters

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Jet blast
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• Jet blast allow 2 aircraft lengths behind
  aircraft

Danger, stand 19 is used for run-ups
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Jet blast
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Jet blast
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Running engines
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• ANTI-COLLISION LIGHTS SWITCHED ON INDICATE
  Engines running or imminent start-up
  Imminent push-back

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Running engines
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• TAXI LIGHTS (HEADLIGHTS) SWITCHED ON INDICATE
  Moving aircraft

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Propellers
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• Rotating propellers are barely visible
• Rotating propellers can be silent especially
  after engine shut-down
• Always wait for the propellers to come to a
  complete stop
• Even at a standstill,propellers can be
  dangerous or easily damaged and one should
  keep his distance from them

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Follow-me vehicles
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• It is strictly forbidden to cross between a
  follow-me vehicle and the aircraft being
  marshalled behind it

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Follow-me vehicles
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Smoking
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• It is strictly forbidden to smoke both inside of
  and outside of a vehicle

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Alcohol
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• 0,8 / 0,0

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Hooked (and pulled) equipment
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• Do not exceed a train length of 10 units

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Hooked (and pulled) equipment
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• Load carts and dollies properly and tie down the
  load

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Hooked (and pulled) equipment
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• Keep on eye the load

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Hooked (and pulled) equipment
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• Slow down if end of train begins to zigzag

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Hooked (and pulled) equipment
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Weather conditions
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• If surface becomes wet, reduce speed and brake
  gently

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Weather conditions
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• Turn on the low beam headlights- at night-
  under poor visibility conditions

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Weather conditions
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• The use of dipped or full beam headlights  is
  forbidden

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Ramp markings
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• Stand numbers
• Aircraft taxi lines
• Vehicle routes
• Vehicle route crossing aircraft taxi routes
• Vehicle routes
• Vehicle routes
• Pedestrian crossing
• Yield

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Ramp markings
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• STOP
• STRIP (for aircraft)
• Jetty manoeuvring
• area
• Aircraft safety envelope
• Fuel
• Aircraft energy source

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Thank you for your attention