Aviation Rescue & Fire Fighting (ARFF) Service (Airservi

[dazla]

Hi guys,

Does anyone know what these guys get up to and if they use radio's etc.

I heard they back up FESA from time to time if the fire is a threat to the Airport.

Cheers
Daz

[Steve]

If you're at the airport you'll often see them moving around the taxiways. The appliances they use are quite different from the FESA units we see on the road, most notably the foam monitors (like cannons) mounted on the roof that can throw up a column of foam. They communicate with the ground controllers on 121.700 (AM) and I've heard them in the past on 464.325, though this was low-power - I was close to the airport when i heard them.

[dazla]

Wonder if they have access to Fesa Radios?

[Steve]

Next time anyone from the group's out at the airport, they might like to see if they can see an airport fire appliance and check if it has a VHF low band whip. The vehicles (I recall) have VHF air band whips so the low band whips would be taller.

[Fastlane]

Wonder if they have access to Fesa Radios?

Each appliance has a FESA radio though I'm not sure if they are mobile or portable radios. You hear them doing radio checks to 6AR every week - most of the time their transmissions are pretty poor so either they have the vehicles parked in the engine bays or they're using portables (which they shouldnt be using on the repeaters anyway!).

[Always RX]

Licence Number 423044
Client Aviation Rescue and Firefighting Section
Land Mobile System - > 30MHz
Callsign VH6JUT
464.3250000 MHz 16K0F2D Domestic Airport REDCLIFFE (26787)
454.8250000 MHz 16K0F2D Domestic Airport REDCLIFFE (26787)



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[wascanner]

I have seen them in action from the Qantas terminal once this year, fire near one of the hangers, the Perth Airport fire trucks just do run arounds.