Identification of the Requirements and Training to Obtain Driving Privileges on Airfields (2009) / Chapter Skim
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For large hub primary airports, the responding airport operators reported a low of 200 personnel authorized to drive on the movement area to a high of 2,500. The overall average for the large hub primary airports was 854.
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Even though only 4 responders taught their driver training programs in Spanish, 21 of the 71 airport operators that responded "no" to the question on whether they taught the program in a foreign language did allow interpreters to assist employees whose primary language is not English. This number included three large hub primary, four medium hub primary, eight small hub primary, three non-hub primary, one commercial service, and two general aviation airports.
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Seventy-five airport operators had some sort of enforcement policy, whereas one general aviation airport did not have enforcement capabilities but rather relied solely on local police Comprehension Large Hub Medium Hub Small Hub Non-hub Non-primary General Aviation Below 5th grade 0 0 0 0 0 0 5th to 8th grade 3 3 4 2 1 1 9th to 12th grade 1 3 5 9 2 3 Unknown 4 7 7 10 2 8 Updating the Training Program Large Hub Medium Hub Small Hub Non-hub Nonprimary General Aviation Every 6 Months 0 0 0 1 0 0 Once a Year 3 3 5 6 3 2 Once Every 2 years 2 1 2 0 0 0 As Needed 4 9 13 16 3 9 Never 0 0 0 0 0 0 Requires Valid Driver's License Large Hub Medium Hub Small Hub Non-hub Nonprimary General Aviation Yes 8 13 16 19 5 11 No 0 0 0 2 0 0 TABLE 7 GRADE LEVEL COMPREHENSION TABLE 8 UPDATING THE DRIVER TRAINING PROGRAM TABLE 9 REQUIRING A VALID DRIVER'S LICENSE
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This includes one large hub primary airport, two non-hub primary airports, one non-primary commercial service, and seven general aviation airports. However, at the large hub primary airport, according to a representative from that airport, the air carriers, as well as the FBOs, have training programs for their personnel that include many of the driving requirements that are usually in an airport operator's driving program.
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This 63% consist of two medium hub, three small hub, five non-hub, one non-primary commercial service, and one general aviation airport. The two large hub primary airports that allow tenants to perform the training neither periodically monitored nor reviewed the training taking place.
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Of the 72 responses to the question of the requirement for recurrent training for the nonmovement area, 36 airports responded that they did have such a requirement. The 36 airports included 4 large hub primary airports, 8 medium hub primary airports, 9 small hub primary airports, 9 non-hub primary airports, 2 commercial service airports, and 4 general aviation airports.
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In many cases, the airport operator has been able to restrict this access to those that absolutely need the access, such as its own operations staff, the aircraft rescue and firefighting personnel, and maintenance personnel. Of the eight large hub primary airports surveyed, only 2 authorize the airport police to drive on the movement area, whereas 11 of 13 medium hub airport operators authorize the airport police to drive on taxiways and runways.
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All 8 of the large hub primary airports, 9 of 13 medium hub primary airports, 13 of 16 small hub primary airports, 16 of 21 non-hub primary airports, 4 of 5 non-primary commercial service, and 5 of 13 general aviation airports require such training for employees seeking to drive on the movement areas of an airport. Although 76% of the surveyed airports require classroom training, the length of the training varied considerably from airport to airport.
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The remaining two airport operators' recurrent training programs were 3 hours. Eleven of the 12 airports required recurrent training at least annually, whereas the 12th airport put its at "between 1 and 2 years." Fifteen small hub primary airports require recurrent training programs for the movement area.
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All five of these airport operators require annual recurrent training. Of the 13 general aviation airports that responded to this question, eight require recurrent training for drivers in the movement area.
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The group of airport operators that did not permit pilots to drive on the airside is broken down as follows: seven large hub primary, seven medium hub, six small hub, and five non-hub primary airports. Of the 5 non-primary commercial service and 13 general aviation airports, not one prohibited pilots from driving their vehicles to their hangar or aircraft.
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