An air carrier captain comments about the unsafe clt airport ground operations by taxiing aircraft; ...

Narrative:

This is a general report on conditions at the clt airport ramp area. Over a period of 6 days; we witnessed regional jets with careless taxi (too fast). We were cut off by a dash 8 [one night]. The ramp workers are continually driving in an unsafe manner. An aircraft can be stopped with nose over the equipment road and there is no consideration by operators of the aircraft or conditions at the time. They simply run around the nose of the aircraft (without even slowing and it appears without a glance to one side of the other); certainly without looking at the aircraft or crew. Local attitude is the issue; and I believe they have gotten away with it so far. The real problem is when something happens I have the impression we are going to get someone killed. I believe there needs to be an adjustment in the operations of ramp and possibly and adjustment in how aircraft on end concourse are pushed so as to not require aircraft wing or nose to intrude on ramp road area.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An Air Carrier Captain comments about the unsafe CLT airport ground operations by taxiing aircraft; ground crew; ramp operations; and conflicts with aircraft pushed from concourse end gates onto ramp roadways.

Narrative: This is a general report on conditions at the CLT airport ramp area. Over a period of 6 days; we witnessed Regional Jets with careless taxi (too fast). We were cut off by a Dash 8 [one night]. The ramp workers are continually driving in an unsafe manner. An aircraft can be stopped with nose over the equipment road and there is no consideration by operators of the aircraft or conditions at the time. They simply run around the nose of the aircraft (without even slowing and it appears without a glance to one side of the other); certainly without looking at the aircraft or crew. Local attitude is the issue; and I believe they have gotten away with it so far. The real problem is when something happens I have the impression we are going to get someone killed. I believe there needs to be an adjustment in the operations of ramp and possibly and adjustment in how aircraft on end concourse are pushed so as to not require aircraft wing or nose to intrude on ramp road area.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1009424
Time
Date	201205
Place
Locale Reference	CLT.Airport
State Reference	NC
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Commercial Fixed Wing
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Taxi
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Captain Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Conflict Ground Conflict Critical Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown

An air carrier captain comments about the unsafe clt airport ground operations by taxiing aircraft; ground crew; ramp operations; and conflicts with aircraft pushed from concourse end gates onto ramp roadways.