Can I ride a bicycle at the airport?
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Today there was news that a TAP Portugal A320neo crashed into a motorcycle crossing the runway while landing in Guinea, and this topic came to mind.
Can I ride a motorbike at the airport? Actually, yes. The airport is so big, and the staff running around certainly has to be a means of transportation. Not only motorcycles, but also bicycles, and tricycles and various types of motor vehicles, there are many kinds of them - of course, everyone must abide by the rules and discipline, use them within the prescribed range, and generally cannot go on the runway.
The most common use of bicycles is to clean up FODs, which is to clean up. There are cleaning staff at the airport who are specifically responsible for this matter, and bicycles or tricycles are their best tools.
The crew sometimes favored tricycles, which could not only be used as a substitute, pulling an ice cream cones, but also as a ladder.
Bikes are a very eco-friendly thing, quick to start, and simple to maintain. Even if it is not a ladder, it is usually used very conveniently.
Especially in the "air flow", it is free to shuttle, the view is good, and it is not as worrying as the motor vehicle.
So even in Japan, bicycles are popular at the airport.
And the armed police brothers, riding this thing to patrol and defend the plane!
Airports tend to be large, three or four kilometres from start to finish. If the bicycle is too slow, you can ride a motorcycle or electric bicycle, the picture above is an electric car at Meilan Airport.
However, whether it is a bicycle, a tricycle or an electric bicycle or a motorcycle, most of them must be driven according to the planned road, and they are not allowed to "go on the runway". At present, there is only one kind of "patrol car" that can drive on the runway.
At individual airports abroad, shuttle buses can also temporarily use runways. In order to shorten the runway occupation time, they often act in groups, driving in quickly, arriving quickly, and driving away quickly.
There are no less than thirty kinds of large and small vehicles in the airport, and no matter what kind of vehicles, they must abide by the rules and discipline. After all, no one can hit a plane; Whoever hits the plane, that's all a thing!
