Hey everyone! I had a question that maybe some of you could answer. For those of you who work in busy airport environments like LAX or ORD or anything with a tight setup, is there something in place to help maintain a safe environment for people and property (aircraft) at gates or ramp areas while large aircraft are actively taxiing by? Some airport setups position heavy aircraft facing away from these areas either during pushback or outbound taxi to the runway. Being around small regional-size jets myself, their jet blast to just get moving poses a safety hazard to us working on the ground. Now scaling that up to something as big as a 747, I could only imagine how much jet blast is coming off an aircraft like that.
I’m asking this since I like to design my own airport setups. I want to create something cool but also logical if it were a real airport.
Don’t work at ORD, but I’ve noticed all heavies stray away from the areas with Regional jets - I.e. a lot of United CRJs are in one spot (concourse B) and a lot/most heavies are at C. Or aircraft of the same spot are in the same area. Or all airports do this, not sure lol.
Frontier and Spirit are notorious for parking their aircraft at a 45 degree angle on the taxiway in the alley between E Main and E Satellite. Especially when they have to punch the throttle to turn into the gate afterwards. It’s very dangerous.
I’ve also experienced getting jet blasted by a 787 and 777 on B1 and B2.
It’s funny that you should mention that because I literally just out of gate E20 and after pushback it felt as though we were starting our taxi facing the satellite terminal
