4.1 The Airport

• Categories of airports (A, B, C, D, E)
• The major areas of an airport and their functions (landside, airside, terminal)
• The layout of an airport
• The role of an airport in the economy

• describe the categories of airports
• explain the functions of the major areas of an airport
• illustrate the arrangement of an airport layout
• model the physical components of an airport
• appreciate the role of an airport in the economy

“How is an airport organised, and why is it important to the economy?”

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1. The airport
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   The categories of airport (A-E by size), the major areas of an airport (landside, terminal, airside) and their functions, the airport layout, and the vital role of airports in the economy.
2. Airport, aerodrome and airfield
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   What makes a place an airport rather than just somewhere aircraft land, and why the distinction matters legally.
3. The airports of Kenya
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   The main airports a Grade 10 learner should know, what each is for, and why they are where they are.
4. Airport categories A to E
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   How airports are graded by size and capability, what changes as the category falls, and why the features go together.
5. Category A: the largest airports
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   What a top-category airport must provide, why each requirement exists, and what it costs to run.
6. Categories B and C
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   The regional international airport and the domestic airport - what each can do, and what it cannot.
7. Categories D and E, and the airstrips
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   The smallest fields, what they can and cannot do, and why they matter far more than their size suggests.
8. Landside: getting people to the airport
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   The public area of an airport, what it must do, and why it fails more often than the parts passengers blame.
9. The terminal: processing people and bags
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   The steps a passenger and a bag pass through, why they are in that order, and where the queues form.
10. Airside: where aircraft operate
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    The secured area, what happens there, and why access to it is controlled so strictly.
11. The runway
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    What a runway is, how it is numbered, why length and direction are chosen as they are, and what lies beside it.
12. Taxiways and the apron
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    The roads and the parking yard of airside, what a turnaround involves, and why the apron is the busiest place at an airport.
13. How the three areas connect
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    The airport as a flow, the controlled doors between areas, and why the layout puts things where it does.
14. The control tower and air traffic control
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    Who controls an aircraft at each stage, why control is handed on, and what controllers are actually doing.
15. Airport security and the sterile area
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    What screening does, what the sterile area means, and why layers rather than a single barrier.
16. Rescue and firefighting at an airport
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    Why an airport has its own fire service, why response time is measured in seconds, and how fire cover limits what an airport can do.
17. Runway markings and lighting
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    The painted markings and coloured lights that tell a pilot where they are, and what each colour means.
18. Drawing an airport layout
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    How to set out an airport plan in a sensible order, what must appear on it, and the mistakes that make a drawing wrong.
19. Modelling the physical components
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    Building a physical model of an airport, what it must include, and how to judge whether a model is good.
20. The airport and the economy
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    How an airport earns its keep, the jobs and trade it supports, and how to weigh its costs honestly.