Airport Markings And Signs - Aviation Facts

what's up guys crane here from logic lounge comment is time for our aviation facts video today we'll be talking all about airport markings yes those lines painted on the ground at airports actually means something every single one of them means something we'll be doing a brief overview on a lot of the major markings so you can identify them the next time you're at an airport and kind of show off to your friends and family on what you know about airports this is a fun little thing to see and to see how the airport actually works dependent on these lines because these lines are actually the bread-and-butter when it comes to moving around the airport so it pays special attention to keep those lines up-to-date as well as keeping to those lines so first off let's start here at the gate you see that there's a red and white line edged out on the outskirts of this gate basically this means this is the gate itself you cannot cross this red line here without some sort of permission whether you're working on the aircraft whether you're authorized to be in there if you go past that line that is the danger zone unless you know what you're doing because there could be a live playing with live engines that could suck you up and tear you apart and that is something that you probably don't want to happen so it is a line that outlines the gate for ground staff to be very wary of when they are working around aircraft now you also notice this long yellow line this is the gates center line this is the line that aircraft actually want to line up with when they're taxing into the gate that will get them at a good distance to attach to the skybridge so that it can come out doesn't have to overextend itself you'll also notice that there are hash marks these hash marks are labeled with the type codes of different aircraft the one that we have here is an Airbus a320 so it is lined up right here with the Airbus a320 marking this makes it so that the plane is not too far away from the skybridge and you see that there's different markings here and there could be more there could be less dependent upon on the airport so this is not a definitive thing that every airport has this but there will be most of these lines here depending on what kind of gate is is so let's start moving out from the gate here and look at other things we're coming out from the gate let's pretend we're pushing back here and we notice that there's a lot of other markings here first off of course you actually have the labeled gate so we are at gate s15 and that is gate s15 so it is labeled clearly there for aircraft to identify where they need to pull in at you also notice some yellow hash marks here those are kind of keep clear zones don't park anything in those zones those are what those mean and then we'll come out here of course this is painted up just like a road right here this is actually an airport road so it's left of course right of course with the dashed line so it's just like driving down a normal road it is vitally important that you keep to the lines of this road plus you yield to all oncoming aircraft as they don't have the best of brakes and some things may happen including your car getting run over this is generally for airport ground staff to move around so you won't see any normal civilians on this type of road and they'll be trained thoroughly on this as well we also have these checkered markings meaning again the outline of the road but this is more major markings rather than minor markings this is kind of when you start to get out towards the movement area so far we've only seen things that are in the non movement area and I'll show you the difference between a movement area and a non movement area so just remember that we're in a non movement area right now you'll see other markings here this is something that is Airport specific so you'll see that there's a nine nine here this is actually means that it's spot 99 there are certain spots on airports that you need to report to or that you can push or taxi to this is one of those lines and how it's displayed as a nine nine you also see that it looks slightly large when you look at it from top down this is because you don't look at things down you look at them at a slight angle so when you're seeing them as an aircraft would at a slight angle it actually looks properly sized up rather than being short you also see this bar right here this checkered bar this is a stop bar so that's kind of you need to stop right here that's where you would stop at and then these lines right here are the taxi lines there are solid yellow lines that go every which way they can be out stretched in black if they can be but on some airports they're just solid yellow lines and that's what those mean now remember when I was talking about movement areas and non movement areas well this is the line that depicts a movement area and a non movement area so anything to the right of the solid yellow line or anything that's inside of the solid yellow line is a non-movement area that means it is not controlled federally but it is controlled by the airport itself this allows for airport logistics to go through while not compromising any of the safety or anything else that an airport may need to run this dashed line means that anything to the right here is actually the airport's itself it is federally regulated meaning that the air traffic controllers actually control this area so you need to listen to them you need to be on a frequency where you can hear them and you're communicating with them and there's generally a lot of training that goes into actually being able to go into a movement area over a non-movement area so let's continue on out here on our lines well first take a right-hand turn here here's another stop bar right here so if you had an aircraft that was coming out from over here you would want to stop your aircraft right about here so it doesn't hit you now let's talk about these signs here these signs are vitally important to an airport for the actual pilots to know about and to identify where they are anything that's black with a yellow letter means that that is the active taxiway you are on so it this means if we were to present ourselves properly this taxiway right here is Quebec there is no you know parallel taxiway here there's one way down here but there's one right here it is next to it it's black the yellow letter so this is taxiway Quebec that is how you know which taxiways they are this also means that the cross is a runway because it's in red with white lettering red with white lettering will always mean a runway and it will say which runway it is it goes from left to right so left is 3/4 right and then the opposite end of the runway is 1 6 left that is how you read that sign but if you were on just a normal taxiway we'll come over here to look at this sign this is how that goes so again we have the black with yellow lettering meaning that this is taxiway Bravo over here and left right here is Quebec so it's yellow is an informational this is how the runway or the taxiway excuse me runs and it will show either it's a left-hand turn or it goes from both left and right so those are the quick and dirty references to airport's signage you'll notice that the outskirts of every taxiway will be marked in blue so blue is the edge of the taxiway green is the centreline the lights for the centreline are actually recessed lighting this is what they look like the little circles here and they light up green now we talked about the edge of the taxiway a double yellow line is an edge of a taxiway that means anything on the other side for instance over here is not the taxiway but anything to the left of it is and that's more to do with federal regulations again there's another one of those signs again like I said so here we are with three four right one six left and this is taxiway Sierra right here so that's taxiway Sierra now we'll move ourselves up and you'll see how this line starts to go from dashed with black outlines with solid that means you're approaching a runway so that is a clear indication the clearest indication that you could of you are about to enter a runway which is something that you don't want to happen if you don't have the permission to because you could have an aircraft land on top of you there could be just tons of things bad happening so they want to make those markings as clear as possible this is also a stop bar and you can see it's double dashed and double yellow line it's kind of the boldest of bold when it comes to this is what it is this is like the bread and butter when it comes to don't cross this unless you definitely have permission so it's double yellow with a double yellow - the double yellow is the taxiway and the double - is the runway that's how you can clearly see them so we'll move our way as well they will be painted up with the actual runway markings on the ground itself painted up just so you have just that much more of an indication you'll see that a lot of these markings are double or triple done in some cases because they want you to make sure in low visibility in certain situations that you know what is coming up because you can't back up an aircraft it's not something you can do and anywhere you go into could potentially be dangerous so now we're coming down here to three four right I want to show a nother marking you'll see here we're on taxiway Bravo as you can tell by the sign here but it says ILS now there's something called the instrument landing system which I probably will cover in a separate video but all you need to know is that's the automatic landing system aircraft themselves have the uncanny ability of getting in the way of ILS systems if they're in the right areas so there are these stop bars this is the stop bar from the ILS so an aircraft taxiing to the runway would actually stop right here before proceeding they wouldn't go all the way to the edge of the runway they would come right here and stop so you're not interfering with any of the automatic landing equipment so for the low visibility moments you're not interfering with aircraft landing and that's what it looks like it's boxed with black and yellow and that's kind of how it looks as you're coming down so we'll continue our way down we're almost to the edge of the runway almost at the end of this video we just have the runway markings to go over and that will be it so we're coming down to the end of the runway I'm going to take a turn here remember these double yellow lines mean that that's the edge of the taxiway it means don't get your wheels over those lines because the concrete won't be hard enough the ground may be too soft and you could sink your wheels in or you might go into a dangerous area so it's all about keeping the aircraft safe it's about keeping the people on the ground safe and it's just about safety overall pretty much so here we are here's another one of these signs we're on taxiway Bravo this is the entrance of 3/4 right if it just says one end of it that means you're at the end of the runway so this is not saying 3/4 right and 1/6 left because we're at the end of 3/4 right so it's indicating that we are at the end of 3/4 right again you have the double yellow and the double yellow stop bar meaning don't go cross this line and we have the runway itself now there are a few critical points here to show the first one here is the runways threshold this threshold area is pretty much saying don't land immediately here you would be too close to things as the indication for the edge of the runway are these white lines here and then you see these yellow arrows right here this means it's a pre threshold area and should only be used in the emergencies of emergencies you shouldn't go past these yellow markings at all when you're stopping when you're taking off when you're taxing you don't want to go into this area because this concrete is not going to be hard enough and you could damage your aircraft there are also different lights as well here and I'll try to show the best lights that I can because there are some lights right here so these are kind of the approach lights these ones right here are the approach lights you'll see that there's a series of them as they go down here so they're they extend out into the distance these are approach lights these are bright lights that pilots will see from far away that they will get themselves lined up to and you would start your way down the aircraft you can see that there's a series of lights here they're just single lights this is indicating the end of the actual runway itself and then we have the threshold with these lines the solid white line actually is the outline of the actual runway itself you have the big painted runway number so three four right is what this runway is the three and the four indicate that it's on a about three hundred and forty degree heading or somewhat north heading that is what the numbers mean and right means that this is the right one runway if you're looking at it because there's a center runway and it left runway so you want to make sure which runway you have identified moving on down here we have the approach markings so basically you have the center line which is this white dashed line which you would Center your aircraft to then you have the touchdown zone and that starts with these three lines here so this touchdown zone is about where it starts where you want to get your aircraft down you can actually see that this gets darker you can see that's the optimal touchdown zone for aircraft these solid white boxes right here is the optimal touchdown aiming point so that is where the pilots want to aim to touch down their wheels so that they have adequate room to stop that they have adequate room to slow down now if you look over here there are four lights and in some instances there may only be two lights this is called the pappy lights these lights help you as a pilot to glide on the glide slope to Red's and to whites mean that you are right on the glide slope you are perfect you keep with the two red and the two white these lights will change dependent upon how high or how low you are I think if I go down lower they might change the red see they change the red meaning you're too low and they'll turn to white meaning that you're too high if they're all white but you really want them as being too white and to red just like that that means you're at just the right height on the descent and those lights change dependent on your perspective to that that's quite interesting so you have this large touchdown zone here and that size can vary depending on how long the runway is and then you have on some airports these markers so you'll have a marker showing you how many I believe it's hundreds of feet left I think that's how that works so this is I think 10,000 feet I think ten hundred feet 1,000 feet I think that's 1,000 then there's 900 up here and 800 700 600 so the pilots know how hard they need to stop depending on where the end of the runway is and I think that about does that's just kind of just the general overview of airport markings every airport can be every airport can have a little bit of variation to this so just take a look now that you know this basic information see what you can conjure up on what you think an airport marking is when you look at it when you look at how its oriented is it a taxi Lane is it a driving Lane is it a non-movement area as in a movement area is an aircraft allowed to go into it just have all of those things and it's kind of just a combination of your knowledge to look up to see what all of these markings mean you guys have any questions leave a comments in the comment section down below if you have any ideas for future aviation facts videos leave them for me as well I hope this video was educational for you I hope you have a little bit better of an understanding for aircraft markings and the airport markings as well thank you guys so much for watching be sure to like share comment and subscribe and of course I will see you guys in our next video you

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Length: 18min 47sec (1127 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 11 2016

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[u/Schnooks]

"YELD" is that a typo on the scenery or is that how it's actually spelt?!