Basic Principles of Airmanship Airfields
Objectives Understand Airfield Layouts Know how runways are numbered Know how runways & taxiways are marked – by day and night Know how approach lights guide an aircraft into land
Types of Airfield Grass Triangle Pattern Main Instrument Runway
Wind Speed 20 Knots Airspeed 80 Knots Ground Speed = 60 Knots
Grass Airfield
Triangle Pattern Airfield
Types of Airfield What are the advantages and disadvantages of: Grass airfields? Triangle pattern airfields?
Modern Main Instrument Runway
Major Airport
Modern Main Instrument Runway
Aircraft are vulnerable to attack if lined up!
Aircraft Dispersal (Battle of Britain 1940)
Hardened Aircraft Shelter (HAS) 2004
Exterior of Hardened Aircraft Shelter
Damaged HAS in Iraq 2003
QRA Take Off
Runways numbered by Magnetic Compass Bearing
Runway 22 heading South West Runway 04 (Reciprocal) heading North East
Runways numbered by Magnetic Compass Bearing
Runway 22 is heading 220°
Air Traffic Control
Windsock – Wind Direction & Strength