PECULIARITIES OF REQUIREMENTS FOR ENSURING THE LEVEL OF FIRE PROTECTION OF AIRFIELDS
Abstract
The article systematizes knowledge on providing fire protection for Ukrainian airfields (airports) in modern conditions of changes in the fleet of civil aviation. The issue of establishing and declaring the level of necessary fire protection for each aerodrome, depending on the size of the aircrafts using this airfield, is disclosed. The set of actions of the owner of the certificate, which he is obliged to carry out when changing the number of firefighting means at the airfield and the level of necessary fire protection of aircraft is determined. To ensure the level of necessary fire protection of aircrafts, established in accordance with the requirements, the issues of providing airfields (airports) with fire trucks that should be used to extinguish fires on aircrafts are investigated. It was established that the required level of fire protection is set and announced for each aerodrome depending on the size of aircraft that use this airport. To ensure fire protection of aircrafts established in accordance with the requirements, airports should also be provided with fire trucks for fighting fires on aircrafts. In current conditions of active technical development of aviation and ensuring a high level of safety in aviation transport, the issues of ensuring fire safety of Ukrainian airfields (airports) of civil aviation are becoming more important. Presented systematization of knowledge in this direction allows us, in our opinion, to ascertain in general the features of requirements for the level of fire protection of airfields (airports) in modern conditions in order to find effective approaches for their further implementation. Following directions of further researches related to providing reliable fire protection of airfields (airports) of civil aviation were determined: features of development of fires at the objects of airlines in modern conditions of operation of aircrafts; improvement of the system of teaching, methodical and practical training of fire and rescue units; improvement of interaction of fire and rescue units with local fire-rescue units etc.
