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Transport category captain reported significant construction projects at eat and psc airports that impact the taxiways into the ramp area and are inadequately marked or lighted.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1369335 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201607 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | EAT.Airport |
| State Reference | WA |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Commercial Fixed Wing |
| Flight Phase | Taxi |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Captain Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown |
Narrative:
This report is meant to highlight issues with airport construction projects. At this airport; there is a significant construction project that impacts the taxiway into the ramp area; effectively making the entry and exit much smaller than normal. Worse; there are no taxi line markings to follow; only edge lights markers. The problem is that the blue taxi edge markers diverge from the lighted barricades and a pilot not paying attention could run them over. In addition; the diverging markers shrink the ramp dramatically making it extremely difficult to gauge where to start the turn onto the first J line for parking. There is no procedure in place for the station to assign additional marshallers to assist the aircraft maneuvering onto the ramp area. Psc station has a similar issue where the airport authority refuses to paint safety / taxi lines on temporary parking spots; resulting in a spinout extremely close to ground equipment scattered around the ramp with no way for the pilot to know if there is appropriate clearance. Even a simple circle of safety is absent.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Transport category Captain reported significant construction projects at EAT and PSC airports that impact the taxiways into the ramp area and are inadequately marked or lighted.
Narrative: This report is meant to highlight issues with airport construction projects. At this airport; there is a significant construction project that impacts the taxiway into the ramp area; effectively making the entry and exit much smaller than normal. Worse; there are no taxi line markings to follow; only edge lights markers. The problem is that the blue taxi edge markers diverge from the lighted barricades and a pilot not paying attention could run them over. In addition; the diverging markers shrink the ramp dramatically making it extremely difficult to gauge where to start the turn onto the first J line for parking. There is no procedure in place for the station to assign additional marshallers to assist the aircraft maneuvering onto the ramp area. PSC station has a similar issue where the airport authority refuses to paint safety / taxi lines on temporary parking spots; resulting in a spinout extremely close to ground equipment scattered around the ramp with no way for the pilot to know if there is appropriate clearance. Even a simple circle of safety is absent.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site 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.