What determines ARFF index?
An index is assigned to each FAA Part 139 certificate holder based on a combination of the air carrier aircraft length and the average number of daily departures. If the longest air carrier aircraft at the airport has five or more average daily departures, the matching index is used.
What is a Category 4 airport?
Class IV airports are those airports that serve only unscheduled operations of large air carrier aircraft. Air carrier operations are so infrequent at these airports that in the past, FAA only required them to comply with some Part 139 requirements.
What are 139 airports?
14 CFR Part 139 requires FAA to issue airport operating certificates to airports that:
- Serve scheduled and unscheduled air carrier aircraft with more than 30 seats;
- Serve scheduled air carrier operations in aircraft with more than 9 seats but less than 31 seats; and.
- The FAA Administrator requires to have a certificate.
What does the Accronym ARFF stand for?
Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF)
How many categories of the ARFF are defined by the NFPA?
The ARFF sets are a combination of 500, 1000, 1500, 3000 or 3300-gallon ARFF vehicles provided in 6 sets based on specific agent calculations for aircraft types as defined in ASC 010. USAF Set 1 meets the requirements of NFPA categories 1 – 4. USAF Set 2 meets the requirements of NFPA categories 5.
What index would an airport be if the air carrier length is at least 159 feet but less than 200 feet in length?
Index D
(4) Index D includes aircraft at least 159 feet but less than 200 feet in length.
What is a cat 7 airport?
CAT 6: 7. CAT 7: open to. airport. CAT 8: same. CAT 9: same.
What is code C aircraft?
Code C Aircraft means an Aircraft with dimensions meeting the specifications in the Aerodrome Reference Code table in Annex 14, Volume I, to the Convention on International Civil Aviation, as may be amended from time to time.
What does the ARFF index mean?
United States ARFF Index A includes aircraft less than 90 feet in length. Index B includes aircraft at least 90 feet but less than 126 feet in length. Index C includes aircraft at least 126 feet but less than 159 feet in length. Index D includes aircraft at least 159 feet but less than 200 feet in length.
How many ARFF indexes are there?
(1) Index A includes aircraft less than 90 feet in length. (2) Index B includes aircraft at least 90 feet but less than 126 feet in length. (3) Index C includes aircraft at least 126 feet but less than 159 feet in length. (4) Index D includes aircraft at least 159 feet but less than 200 feet in length.