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Foreign object debris and airside driving

FOD sources, costs and programmes, runway inspections, driving permits, vehicles, radio readback and runway incursion prevention, under ICAO, EASA, FAA and GCAA guidance

By Aerospace Garage Desk · Introductory · 45 minutes · 24 narrated pages

What you will be able to do

  • ✓ Define foreign object debris, name its sources and estimate the direct and indirect cost of FOD events using published study figures.
  • ✓ Describe the four elements of a FOD management programme and use FOD data to choose targeted prevention actions.
  • ✓ Plan runway and movement-area inspections that meet US and European minimum frequencies and cover trigger events, using safe inspection methods.
  • ✓ Explain airside driving authorisation, training intervals, vehicle marking, lighting and condition, and the rules of the road, using the official findings on a 2016 vehicle incursion at Perth.
  • ✓ Apply correct radio phraseology, full readback, holding position and stop bar rules, and low visibility procedures to prevent runway incursions.

Course content

Session 1 · Foreign object debris: what it is and what it costs

1.1

  1. What counts as foreign object debris · free preview
  2. How debris does damage
  3. The cost of debris
  4. Worked example: what does one FOD event cost?
Session 2 · Running a FOD management programme

1.2

  1. The four parts of a FOD programme
  2. Prevention in practice, from ramp to hangar
  3. Recording and learning from FOD
  4. Worked example: reading a quarter of FOD data
Session 3 · Runway and movement-area inspections

1.3

  1. How often the runway must be inspected
  2. How a runway inspection is done
  3. Detection systems, sweepers and FOD walks
  4. Worked example: building a runway inspection schedule
Session 4 · Airside driving permits, vehicles and the rules of the road

1.4

  1. Driving permits and training
  2. Vehicle markings, lighting and condition
  3. The rules of the road airside
  4. From the investigation file: a vehicle at the runway holding point, Perth 2016
Session 5 · Radio, readback and runway incursion prevention

1.5

  1. What a runway incursion is
  2. Radio discipline for drivers
  3. Holding positions, stop bars and getting lost
  4. Worked example: a readback error
Session 6 · Low visibility, human factors and safe runway crossings

1.6

  1. Low visibility procedures
  2. Human factors traps for drivers
  3. Runway safety teams, reporting and consequences
  4. Worked example: the runway crossing decision

Who this course is for

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