COURSE DURATION: 2 Days Training

COURSE DEPLOYMENT: Classroom / Virtual

TARGET GROUP:

• Aviation Fire Fighters
• Aviation Safety Personnel
• Civil Maintenance
• Electrical Maintenance
• Bird and Wildlife

COURSE AIM: The aim of this is course is to enable the participants to learn how to use different methodologies and best practices to assist airport operators to counter the risks associated with runway operations and achieve a level of acceptable runway safety.

COURSE OBJECTIVES - UPON COMPLETION OF THIS COURSE, PARTICIPANTS WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Understand industry best practices with regards to runway planning, design, maintenance, and operation.
• Know how to develop an effective runway safety program, including the establishment of a Local Runway Safety Team.
• Understand how to tailor, improve, and expand on an existing runway safety program.
• Take action to prevent runway incursions and excursions.
• Apply reporting principles learnt.

MINIMUM NUMBER OF ATTENDEES: 12

PASS MARK: 75%

AMOUNT: (PER LEARNER; PER DAY): R3896,47 (Excl. VAT)

MODULE 1 : INTRODUCTION

• SACAA Regulation
• The Airside
• Policies & Procedures
• Dawn & dusk inspections
• Basic safety considerations

MODULE 2 : RADIO COMMUNICATIONS

• General
• Reporting on inspection findings
• AD-HOC Runway inspections

MODULE 3 : AERODROME OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

• Abbreviations and Definitions
• Airport signs & Markings
• Basic airside safety rules
• Additional rules for driving on the aircraft maneuvering area
• Taxi rules
• Low Visibility Procedures (LVP’s)
• Runway Visual Range (RVR)
• Emergency procedure in case of radio failure

MODULE 4 : CLOSING OF RUNWAYS AND TAXIWAYS

• Scheduled maintenance
• Unscheduled maintenance
• Nonscheduled runway closure for safety reasons
• Runway closure for emergency purposes
• Runway and taxiway re-opening
• Procedure general

MODULE 5 : RUNWAY, TAXIWAY AND APRON CLEANING AND SWEEPING

• Directive generals
• Runways & Taxiways
• Aprons
• Procedure general
• Inspection

MODULE 6 : KNOWLEDGE AND EQUIPMENT FOR AERODROME INSPECTIONS

• What to know

MODULE 7 : COMPONENTS OF AN AERODROME INSPECTION

• Four components

MODULE 8 : RUNWAY AND TAXIWAY INSPECTION POLICY

• Details the activities to be carried out when conducting scheduled and ad-hoc runway and taxiway inspections on operated airports.
• Airport Maintenance Management Systems
• Classification of pavement cracking
• Pavement Classification Number (PCN)