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Aerodrome rescue and firefighting

Aerodrome category, remission, foam and complementary agents, vehicles, response time, aircraft familiarisation and the emergency plan, under ICAO, EASA and FAA rules

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

What you will be able to do

  • ✓ Determine an aerodrome rescue and firefighting category from aeroplane length and fuselage width, including the all-cargo table and the 700-movement remission rule.
  • ✓ Read the Annex 14 agent table to check water for foam, discharge rates, complementary agents, reserves and the number of vehicles for a declared category.
  • ✓ Build and test a response time budget against the two-minute objective and three-minute limit, and compare it with the US 14 CFR 139.319 rule.
  • ✓ Explain aircraft familiarisation, approach and positioning principles, staffing, training and medical fitness, and apply the lessons of the American Airlines flight 383 investigation.
  • ✓ Use the aerodrome emergency plan: its contents, grid maps, rendezvous points, triage and the exercise intervals required by Annex 14, EASA and the FAA.

Course content

Session 1 · Purpose, rules and the aerodrome category

1.1

  1. What the service is for · free preview
  2. The rule chain: ICAO, EASA and FAA
  3. Aerodrome category: length first, then width
  4. Worked example: the category for an aircraft mix
Session 2 · Remission, reduced protection and the FAA index

1.2

  1. Remission: when frequency lowers the category
  2. Reduced activity and unforeseen reductions
  3. The FAA index from A to E
  4. Worked example: a season count and the remission decision
Session 3 · Extinguishing agents, quantities and vehicles

1.3

  1. Foam: the principal agent and its performance levels
  2. Complementary agents and reserve supplies
  3. Minimum quantities, discharge rates and vehicles
  4. Worked example: checking a category 9 fleet
Session 4 · Response time and fire station cover

1.4

  1. Response time: two minutes, never more than three
  2. Stations, roads, alerting and poor visibility
  3. The US response rule and live response tests
  4. Worked example: checking the response time to the far end
Session 5 · Aircraft familiarisation, rescue tactics and people

1.5

  1. Knowing the aircraft before the call
  2. Approach, positioning and protecting the exits
  3. People: staffing, training and medical fitness
  4. From the investigation file: American Airlines flight 383, Chicago, 2016
Session 6 · The aerodrome emergency plan

1.6

  1. What the plan is and who is in it
  2. Grid maps, rendezvous points and triage
  3. Exercises and review
  4. Worked example: grid reference, rendezvous point and triage site

Who this course is for

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