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Relationship Between Airport Technical Services And Airline Operation's Safety And Efficiency

Discuss the
Relationship between Airport Technical Services and Airline Operation's Safety and Efficiency

Table of Contents

Table of Contents II

List of Figures III

executive summary IV

1 introduction 1

2 literature review 2

3 methodology 4

4 airport technical services 7

4.1 aeronautical information service 7
4.2 telecommunications service 11
4.2.1 Fixed Services
4.2.2 Mobile Services
4.2.3 Radio Navigation Services
4.2.4 Broadcast Services
4.3 meteorological services 19
4.3.1 Reports of Surface Weather
4.3.2 Aerodrome Forecast
4.3.3 Significant Meteorological Phenomenon
4.3.4 Charts and Prognostications
4.3.5 Weather Instruments
4.4 air traffic control service 27
4.4.1 Results and Discussion
4.5 relationship between airport technical services 31

5 Conclusion 32

6 References 33

7 illustration list 36

8 appendices 37

List of Figures

This is the complete listing of all the figures used throughout the report.

Figure 1 Mobile Services provided by the Airport 13

Figure 2 VOR Ground Station with DME equipment 14

Figure 3 Instrument Landing System with glideslope capability 16

Figure 4 GPS Satellite Simulated Orbit 17

Figure 5 TAF code for Albury Airport 20

Figure 6 Detail of the TAF decode 20

Figure 7 Explanation for the SIGMET report 22

Figure 8 Tabular form of winds and temperatures 23

Figure 9 Significant weather prognostic chart 24

Figure 10 Anemometer 25

Figure 11 Stevenson screen 25

Figure 12 Ceilometer 25

Figure 13 Terminal Doppler Weather Radar 26

Figure 14 Interaction of Airport Technical Services 31

introduction

Airports and airlines have an inextricable de facto relationship: the two exist to complement each other, and one cannot survive without the other. Over the century the interaction between the two can be identified as airports supplying services to...