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SAFEGUARDING
SERVICES TO AIRPORTS
ASD offers
a variety of services to help airport operators. These include
checking planning applications and other potential obstacles,
advice on operational developments, safeguarding
seminars for aerodrome staff and LPAs, and courses to
teach the elements of safeguarding.
AIRFIELD SAFEGUARDING
Whether
or not your airport has been safeguarded by the CAA in the
past, you are undoubtedly finding that safeguarding is being
given a higher profile by your CAA auditors, producing an
increasing and irregular workload. As you will know, the process
of checking a planned obstacle against all the obstacle limitation
surfaces and other planes is labour-intensive, and requires
accuracy.
Software is available to help, but this
is generally CAD-based, and is often a "bolt-on"
feature to existing CAD software. This means considerable
CAD expertise plus training are required. Then, of course,
there is the expense of installing the necessary computer
workstations and other hardware. The total cost would run
into £thousands. Furthermore, as applications arrive at irregular
intervals, can you afford to employ trained staff who have
to be instantly available for irregular safeguarding checks?
How easy will it be to update the software for changes in
the CAA's safeguarding parameters or aerodrome criteria?
The cost-effective alternative to
doing it yourself is to let ASD
help you, using our wide aviation experience and specialist
software. This software was conceived, then developed over
a number of years, for the sole purpose of aerodrome safeguarding.
It was originally in a military version for MOD, and later
in a civil version which is ICAO Annex 14 and CAP 168-compliant.
SERVICES FOR SMALL & UNLICENSED AIRFIELDS
ASD fully appreciates the need for smaller airfields to safeguard their
operations within a very restricted budget. We can help with a package tailored to that specific need.
AIRFIELD OPERATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
With our depth of knowledge, we are able
to offer advice on many matters of airfield operational development,
in particular those Involving runway upgrades or extensions
and the effects of terrain and existing/planned obstacles
upon the obstacle limitation surfaces.
Existing obstacles or planned structures
can be analysed to show the effect of each upon all the safeguarded
airfield, runway and aid planes and surfaces. This is particularly
useful for airports following an obstruction survey or when
considering airfield changes. Field length parameters may
be adjusted to see the effect of obstacles upon the resulting
runway planes, enabling optimum values to be chosen, commensurate
with CAA requirements. Advice can be given on such planned
developments, both on and off the airport, using extensive
safeguarding, aircraft performance and operational expertise.
This is ideal when considering where to build the next hangar
or new ATC tower, or a new airport hotel.
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