Airport cars

Even if you have been to the airport once as a passenger, you must have seen all kinds of airport cars. The most famous of them is the bus that transports passengers from the departure terminal to the plane and vice versa, although sometimes hose or telescopic tubes are used between the exit door of the hall and the plane. You may even have seen various vehicles carrying cargo from the plane to the terminal or vice versa, and you probably paid less attention to their details. Today, on the car page, you will get to know the cars that work mostly on the "airside" of the airport, and even if you are a regular passenger of flights, it is unlikely that they will attract much attention to you.

Devices and cars that work in the shadows, but their existence is necessary and vital for every flight and airport. What is Airside, you ask? Strangely, the literature that dominates the atmosphere of airports is influenced by the English language. The environment of each airport is divided into two parts, Airside and Landside, "the areas outside the airport runway and in front of the terminal and the terminal itself, and generally outside the area where passenger transportation, cargo and flight operations are carried out." It can be called landside, and the place where the plane is parked, repairs are carried out, and passenger and cargo transportation, or in general, flight and transfer operations are carried out, is called airside. In the following, you will get to know the characteristics of the machines that work in the airside area of airports. Air Conditioning Unit It is a device that does the air conditioning of the plane when it is on the ground. By connecting to the plane, this device cools or warms the air inside the cabin. This car is mainly transported with a towing vehicle. Ground Power Unit or GPU It is a device connected to a car and when the pilot turns off the plane, they use it to supply the electricity needed for the lighting inside the cabin or different parts of the plane.

Commissary High Lift Truck Food and catering trucks. The back of these trucks has a jack and when it is placed next to the plane. The compartment behind the truck rises and touches the plane door. Then the door is opened and food and catering are delivered to the plane. Lavatory Service Truck The sewage disposal vehicle is an airplane. This car is like sewage discharge tankers; It has a pipe that connects to the plane's sewage drain and drains the plane's sewage. Push Truck / Towbarless

Sometimes the plane is in a position where it is not possible to turn on the engine and rotate the plane. In these cases, a push truck is used to move it forward or backward. In this regard, the Director General of Flight Operations of Imam Airport says: "Sometimes you are sitting on the plane as a passenger and you feel that the plane is going backwards, in fact it is not the plane that is going in reverse gear. Rather, the pushtruck car is moving the plane with a lever that is connected to the front wheel of the plane.

Passenger Step Narrow Body / Wide Body

The stairs that are connected to the body of the plane for the entry or exit of passengers are also usually mounted on a car.

Air Starter Unit The device that facilitates the start of the aircraft is called iRastarter unit. Conveyor Belt Self The plane has a section called "baggage" where the storage compartment is located. These compartments may be two, four or six depending on the type and size of the aircraft. Belt conveyor is a conveyor or belt that is mounted on a vehicle and its height can be adjusted. When this car is placed next to the plane, the end of the conveyor is raised and touches the cargo hold door. Then the load is placed on the conveyor and is directed down, and at the bottom of the conveyor, the handling forces pick up the passenger's load or the load to be delivered in the destination city.

Rescue and Fire Fighting vehicles

Firefighting vehicles are the same as firefighting vehicles, which, of course, are very different from city firefighting vehicles. These vehicles have the high power of throwing water and fire extinguishing materials and when an accident occurs or an emergency situation is announced by the airport control tower or ground safety to the airport fire brigade, they appear on the runway. Deicing / Anti-icing Tower Unit

It is a car that is used to spray anti-freeze on the aircraft body in winter and when the weather is cold. These cars have a room like a cabin, and the person who is in it is in control of the plane body to have enough control to pour the anti-icing liquid on the plane. Airport passenger bus (Ramp Bus)

There are shuttle buses at every airport. Pilot Saif explains: "Sometimes, a jetway or a telescopic bridge is used to transfer passengers from the terminal to the plane, which depends on the location of the plane's parking lot and the availability of the jetway at the airport. But in the rest of the time, when the plane parking place is far from the terminal or where there is a telescopic bridge, or there is no jetway at the airport, passengers are transferred by bus."

Snow Blower Truck When the amount of snow on the flight surfaces is low, this car is used to absorb the snow and so-called eat it to clear the surfaces. Sweeper Truck

The vehicle sweeps the flight surfaces. This car is used to sweep and remove the debris that is blown to the flight surfaces