Airport Services Manual - Part 1

The principal objective of an RFF (rescue and firefighting) service is ______________________________. The RFF service is ___________________________ .

• 1) to save lives in the event of an aircraft accident or incident occurring at, or in the immediate vicinity of, an airport

  2) provided to create and maintain survivable conditions, to provide egress routes for occupants and to initiate the rescue of those occupants unable to make their escape without direct aid

• 1) provided to create and maintain survivable conditions, to provide egress routes for occupants and to initiate the rescue of those occupants unable to make their escape without direct aid 2) to save lives in the event of an aircraft accident or incident occurring at, or in the immediate vicinity of, an airport

• 1) to save lives in the event of an aircraft accident or incident occurring at an airport

  2) to provide egress routes for occupants and to initiate the rescue of those occupants unable to make their escape without direct aid

This service must assume at all times the possibility of and need for extinguishing a fire which may:

a) exist at the time an aircraft is landing, taxiing, parked, etc.; or

b) occur immediately following an aircraft accident or incident; or

c) occur at any time during rescue operations.

• True

• False

A detailed grid map(s) of the airport and its immediate vicinity (with date of revision) should be provided for the use of the airport services concerned. Information concerning topography, access roads and location of water supplies should be indicated. This map should be visibly posted in the control tower and the fire station and be available on the RFF vehicles as well as other supporting vehicles required to respond to an aircraft accident or incident. The issuing authority for the detailed grid maps should have a document control process to ensure all agencies are made aware of any changes or re-issues.

• True

• False

The level of protection to be provided at an airport should be based on the ______________ of the aeroplanes normally using the airport as adjusted for their frequency of operations.

• length

• dimensions

• weight

• width

The airport category for RFF should be based on the overall ________________ normally using the airport and their ________________.

• maximum fuselage width, length of the longest aeroplanes

• maximum fuselage length, width of the longest aeroplanes

• length of the longest aeroplanes, maximum fuselage width

The airport category for RFF should be based on the overall length of the longest aeroplanes normally using the airport and their maximum fuselage width. Which of the following aeroplane overall length range applies for airport category 10?

• 78 m up to but not including 90 m

• 76 m up to but not including 90 m

• 7 metres

• 8 metres

When the number of movements of the aeroplanes in the highest category normally using the airport is less than __________ in the busiest consecutive ________ months, then the airport category may be ___________ less than the highest aeroplane category.

• 700; 3; 1

• 600; 2; 1

• 600; 3; 2

• 700; 2; 2

What constitutes to a movement?

(i) - Landing

(ii) - Take off

(iii) - Aircraft push back

(iv) - Aircraft taxiing on apron

(v) - Aircraft taxiing on taxiway

• i, ii, v

• i & ii

• i. ii, iv, v

• All of the above

The level of protection at aerodromes used for all-cargo aeroplane operations may be reduced based on the need to protect only the area around the cockpit of an allcargo aeroplane in the critical area concept.

• True

• False

The amounts of water for foam production and the complementary agents to be provided on the RFF vehicles should be in accordance with the airport category determined, except that for airport categories ____ and ____ , up to 100 per cent of the water may be substituted with a complementary agent.

• 9, 10

• 3, 4

• 1, 2, 3

• 1, 2