Tabletop and Full-Scale Emergency Exercises for General Aviation, Non-Hub, and Small Hub Airports (2016) / Chapter Skim
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29 Six case examples present the range of exercise practices that were discovered in this study. Highly useful, effective practices were found at airports ranging in size from a small general aviation airport to the 15th busiest airport in the world, Denver International Airport (DEN)
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30 FIGURE 9 Denver International Airport (Source: Denver International Airport)
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31 Description of Airport's Exercise Program Since its opening on February 28, 1995, DEN has been exercising procedures for emergency response. In its early years, it had an airport operations manager tasked with organizing and conducting exercises when required to do so by either the FAA or the TSA.
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32 Exercise Control DEN follows the HSEEP process for planning, conducting, and evaluating its exercises using a high level of customization, including some continual improvement and applied agile program management. Its advice to smaller airports is to use the HSEEP tools as a process, but not to be afraid to make them their own.
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33 Benefits DEN has found that its overall operational efficiency and level of customer service have been enhanced by its active training, exercise, and evaluation program. DEN encourages a proactive rather than a reactive approach to airport exercises and scenario choices: It believes the benefits are maximized by fixing problems before trying an exercise aimed at the problem.
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34 DEN has also found real value in inclusion. It explores the needs and requirements of its partners and tries to find ways it can leverage these needs towards a common benefit.
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35 deputy airport director is a member of the city's Incident Command Team (ICT) , which ensures that there is regular interaction with the emergency management process with the airport and the city of Boise.
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36 With permission of the author and publisher of Airport Improvement magazine, the following article was amended to delete any explicit or implied endorsement of specific commercial products in order to conform to the policies of the TRB. The original article by Kristin Vanderhey Shaw is featured in the November/December 2015 issue of Airport Improvement and can be viewed online at http://www.airportimprovement.com/article/emergency-drill-rochester- intl-includes-social-media-simulation.
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37 communications team used a cloud-based application simulation [from a vendor] to train privately on social media tools without compromising security and safety.
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38 One of the biggest lessons was learning how to ensure a good flow of information without communicating too much. ‘"Everything happens so quickly that you have to be able to react quickly, but not with anything that could be inaccurate," she explains.
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39 airports with single point of contact, such as the one Rochester has put into place. "It would prove difficult for airports to have multiple plans, especially when they have limited staff to deploy those plans." Shaw also thought it would be much easier to drill with a single plan rather than multiple CCPs, and where mutual aid is initiated, a single plan and single point of contact would seem to be the most efficient use of resources.
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40 Description of Airport's Exercise Program LAL has an active exercise program. The airport has chosen to keep itself "commercial service ready," so it ensures that it meets all FAR Part 139 exercise and AEP requirements.
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41 (ARFF, Heavy Rescue 73, and Engine 71) along with operations, and ARFF and operations will respond accordingly.
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42 – Controller and Evaluator (CE) Handbook – Master Scenario Events List (MSEL)
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43 players actively involved in the exercise. LAL always has a formal exercise safety plan.
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44 CASE EXAMPLE 5: MIAMI–OPA LOCKA EXECUTIVE AIRPORT (OPF) OPF is one of five airports in the Miami–Dade Aviation Department (MDAD)
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45 developers. Perhaps the most important lesson learned was that the airport needs a dedicated notification phone line between the tower and the Miami–Dade County Police regional dispatch to be able to activate police immediately in case of an emergency, just as fire and airport operations are notified (N.
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46 CASE EXAMPLE 6: OWATONNA DEGNER REGIONAL AIRPORT (OWA) Owatonna Degner Regional Airport (OWA)
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47 Occasions or Frequency of Exercises OWA's AEP requires a TTX and AEP review at least every 3 years and a live exercise at least every 5 years. The last complete full-scale exercise was in 2000, but live exercises are undertaken more often than 5 years apart.
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48 of every exercise, and the statewide 800 MHz system is the main tool. OWA's exercises use ICS structure and follow NIMS policies, including the role of PIOs.
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49 Advice to an Airport Starting to Develop Its Emergency Exercise Program "It is important to design an exercise program that is compatible with the airport's specific needs and resources. It is important to build relationships with partner agencies and to leverage those agencies' resources to assist the airport's exercise needs" (D.
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