Below is the uncorrected machine-read text of this chapter, intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text of each book. Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages.
37 Airport operAtor interview Guide Airport Data Airport Represented: Interview Date: Interviewee: Name Position/Job Title Mailing Address: Street Name/No. City/State/Zip Contact Information: Telephone: Cell Phone: E-mail: General Background Data 1. Describe your experiences dealing with the agencies that have used your airport for aerial wildland firefighting? 2. What types of operations are conducted on your airfield? 3. Where is the aerial firefighting base located in relation to the airport property? Community, Contractual and Economic Issues 1. What community impacts (hotels, rental cars, restaurants, noise, congestion, others) have you identified when a sustained (30+ days) aerial firefighting suppression effort is initiated on your airport? 2. Fuel sales and fueling of aircraft are often issues that arise when aerial firefighting suppression activities occur on airports. These matters can involve a host of challenging issues such as safety, fees, self-fueling rights, wet leases, and fuel storage/transfer. 3. Is crowd control and public access to operational and security restricted areas a problem? 4. At your airport, who is responsible for coordinating aerial firefighting suppression intergovernmental relations? With whom do you deal on contractual matters for the use of the airport for aerial firefighting suppression matters? 5. When damage to airport-owned assets is caused by aerial firefighting suppression activities, how are repairs completed (by whom) and how is the cost for repairs reimbursed, if at all? Operational Issues 1. During aerial firefighting operations, has a temporary air traffic control tower (ATCT) ever been established on your airport? 2. Do you allow âfire campsâ where firefighters can set up tents on airport managed property? 3. The aerial firefighting process can involve a good deal of water and other chemicals such as ammonia-based slurry retardants. Have you experienced any problems with these chemicals and the environment, such as ground contamination or storm water runoff issues? 4. Aerial firefighting suppression season commonly corresponds with airport construction season. 5. How do you âeducateâ aerial firefighting suppression support personnel about compliance with airport restrictions such as movement/ non-movement areas, security matters (TSR 1542), airport rules and regulations, delivery of firefighting supplies, firefighter access to the restricted areas, and other compliance matters? 6. If it became necessary for one of the aerial firefighting suppression aircraft to jettison a load of firefighting retardant, is there a designated jettison site on the airport? Are there procedures established for the use of this site? Appendix A interview Guides
38 7. Have you experienced issues/problems with FOD that is generated by aerial firefighting suppression operations, including retar- dant on ramps, taxiways and runways? What is the nature of the problem and how did you deal with the matter(s)? 8. As it relates to aerial firefighting suppression operations, who issues NOTAMs concerning operations? General and Closing Issues 1. What issues or matters are important to airport operators as they relate to aerial firefighting suppression efforts that have not been discussed above? 2. What topics do you think I should have asked you about, but did not? 3. How can we, the people that are putting together this document, make the product most useful for you? Helicopter operAtor interview Guide Operator Data Company Represented: Interview Date: Interviewee: Name: Position/Job Title: Mailing Address: Street Name/No.: City/State/Zip: Contact Information: Telephone: Cell Phone: _ E-mail: General Discussion Subjects 1. What support can airport operators provide to your company when you are engaged in providing aerial firefighting suppression effort from airports? 2. What problems have you experienced when dealing with airport operators when you are engaged in providing aerial firefighting suppression activities? 3. What issues or matters are important to helicopter operators as it relates to aerial firefighting suppression efforts that have not been discussed above? 4. What topics do you think I should have asked you about, but did not?
