Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Other / Unknown; Situational Awareness; Training / Qualification
Conflict Ground Conflict; Critical; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural FAR; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown
General None Reported / Taken
Company Policy; Environment - Non Weather Related; Human Factors
This is a general report on conditions at the CLT airport ramp area. Over a period of 6 days; we witnessed Regional Jets with careless taxi (too fast). We were cut off by a Dash 8 [one night]. The ramp workers are continually driving in an unsafe manner. An aircraft can be stopped with nose over the equipment road and there is no consideration by operators of the aircraft or conditions at the time. They simply run around the nose of the aircraft (without even slowing and it appears without a glance to one side of the other); certainly without looking at the aircraft or crew. Local attitude is the issue; and I believe they have gotten away with it so far. The real problem is when something happens I have the impression we are going to get someone killed. I believe there needs to be an adjustment in the operations of ramp and possibly and adjustment in how aircraft on end concourse are pushed so as to not require aircraft wing or nose to intrude on ramp road area.
An Air Carrier Captain comments about the unsafe CLT airport ground operations by taxiing aircraft; ground crew; ramp operations; and conflicts with aircraft pushed from concourse end gates onto ramp roadways.