Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Communication Breakdown; Confusion; Situational Awareness; Other / Unknown
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Ground Incursion Taxiway
Air Traffic Control Issued Advisory / Alert; Flight Crew Became Reoriented
Airport; Human Factors
Unfamiliar airport operations; turned out of the gate for deicing crossed the movement area from a non-movement area. Airport has terrible lights; markings; no flood lights operational.There is no way to identify the movement area unless you cross it and get deviated. Charts do not say where the non-movement area [is]. The whole airport is one taxiway; hard to tell if all ramp area is non-movement[We] did not establish two-way communication with Ground Control.
Possible pilot deviation for violating a movement area without taxi clearance. [We were] repositioning from hard stand to de-ice pad; and crossed into a movement area without taxi clearance.Suggestions: 1. Make markings more visible. 2. De-ice at gate. 3. Make sure flood lights work. 4. Make a note in company charts and pages of this to make unfamiliar crews aware of potential deviation threat.1. First time FO (First Officer) has been to airport; unfamiliar with layout. 2. Night time winter operations. 3. Dimly lit hard stand and ramp area; hard to see and navigate. We were advised prior to boarding the airplane by Ground Personnel that ramp flood lights were not working when they usually work. 4. Turn out gate with small ramp; it seems that by the time the Captain had turned the aircraft fully around to reposition to the de-ice pad; we may have already crossed the taxi hold short line. 5. Ramp just transitions to taxiway with no other distinguishing signs; lights; barriers; markings other than the movement/non movement line that we noticed after crossing it already. 6. After clearing the area to the right of the aircraft; FO was heads-down configuring aircraft for de-ice; reducing situational awareness.
Air carrier flight crew reported entering a non-movement area while taxiing at HTS airport; citing poor airport lighting and markings as contributing factors to the incident.