Non-movement rules for pedestrians

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Assume your plane is parked on the ramp of the FBO, but a restaurant or maintenance hangar that you want to go to has other airport tenants between you and where you want to go.

What is the rule(s) on pedestrian access?
 
Walk straight to the edge, walk along the edge. Head on a swivel, stand well back from moving aircraft.

am I missing something?
 
bflynn said:
Walk straight to the edge, walk along the edge. Head on a swivel, stand well back from moving aircraft.

am I missing something?
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Okay, now I will make it a little more complicated, assume customs is between, in the picture below, do you follow the red or blue arrows, or something else? Remember the customs ramp is restricted area.


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MooneyDriver78 said:
What is the rule(s) on pedestrian access?
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Depends on the airport and their rules. Most dont allow unescorted movement by transient individuals. Part 139 airports usually have a badge system to move in certain areas like your red/blue lines. Using your pic, half the airports I worked on would make me go out one gate by the aircraft, cut across the parking lot and go in another gate close to my destination. And on some I even had an airport badge but the wrong color. Best to talk to the local FBO on the rules.
 
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Bell206 said:
Depends on the airport and their rules. Most dont allow unescorted movement by transient individuals. Part 139 airports usually have a badge system to move in certain areas like your red/blue lines. Using your pic, half the airports I worked on would make me go out one gate by the aircraft, cut across the parking lot and go in another gate close to my destination. And on some I even had an airport badge but the wrong color. Best to talk to the local FBO on the rules.
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In this case, there is no pedestrian gate close to destination, all hangars are built on the edge of the airport, so airport ramps are accessible only through the hangars.

So in the above case, there’s no way to get there unless you have hangar access.

The FBO probably only cares about their own ramp, probably have to talk to the airport manager.
 
Most FBOs are going to drive you there and back, or loan a car.
Or walk it on the public side.
 
Unless the restaurant has direct access to the ramp, you’re going thru a hate or the FBO.

LBX has an on field diner with direct access. FBO parks transients as close to the restaurant as possible.

CLL has an on field diner without direct access. They park you in transient parking, cart you to the FBO, you walk out the FBO, turn left and follow the yellow brick road about 30 yards to the restaurant next door. Reverse routing when you’re done.

Just call the restaurant or FBO and ask how it’s handled.
 
See that thing called a fence in the photo? If they wanted people wondering all over the airport they wouldn’t have put a fence up. Additionally you are walking across a ramp that is not the FBOs , in this a goverment authority with a national security function.

You should exit the general aviation terminal (FBO) entrance and walk around the fence to the restaurant,
 
That looks like FPR.

I’m going through the parking lot.
 
I assume if the ramp is restricted, it will be delimited in stone way, so I would go around. But I was taught very early that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line and that's not either of the red or blue on your drawing.
 
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