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However, the apron is not usually open to the general public, and a permit may be required to gain access. An apron's designated areas for aircraft parking are called aircraft stands. [4] By extension, the term apron is also used to identify the air traffic control (ATC) position responsible for coordinating movement on this surface at busier ...
The green centreline on the display moves smoothly left and right to accurately indicate how away from the centreline an aircraft is. An example of a Safedock S model display. The aircraft parking is a B757 which is left of the centreline. The vertical yellow bar in the centre disappears, from bottom to top, as the aircraft approaches the ...
At airports, the marshaller signals the pilot to keep turning, slow down, stop, and shut down engines, leading the aircraft to its parking stand or to the runway. Sometimes, the marshaller indicates directions to the pilot by driving a "Follow-Me" car (usually a yellow van or pick-up truck with a checkerboard pattern) prior to disembarking and ...
Federal Aviation Regulations part 139.5 states, "Movement area means the runways, taxiways, and other areas of an airport that are used for taxiing, takeoff, and landing of aircraft, exclusive of loading ramps and aircraft parking areas."
An F-4 Phantom and an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft on an area of hardstand. A hardstand (also hard standing and hardstanding in British English) is a paved or hard-surfaced area on which vehicles, such as cars or aircraft, may be parked. [1] [2] The term may also be used informally to refer to an area of compacted hard surface such as macadam.
Each gate typically corresponds to one parking stand on the airport's apron. A gate that provides access to multiple stands/jet bridges may have separate, designated doorways – sometimes termed sub-gates – for each stand. Commercial airport stands have airside components to facilitate passenger boarding and aircraft ground handling. [1]: 6-2
Three Dornier 228 of Aerocardal at the airline's Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport base. A fixed-base operator (FBO) is an organization granted the right by an airport to operate at the airport and provide aeronautical services such as fueling, hangaring, tie-down, and parking, aircraft rental, aircraft maintenance, flight instruction, and similar services. [1]
Aircraft ground handling of a Lufthansa Airbus A380 at Frankfurt Airport in Germany. In aviation , aircraft ground handling or ground operations defines the servicing of an aircraft while it is on the ground and (usually) parked at a terminal gate of an airport .