Air Traffic Control Clearance and Procedures

Question 1

What is a clearance void time? What can you do if you passed the expiration time?

Answer 1

The time at which your clearance is void and after which you may not takeoff. You must notify ATC within 30 minutes after you did not depart.

Question 2

Give a scenario and talk about what should be done if communications are lost.

Answer 2

• A: Assigner Route
• V: Vectored
• E: Expected by ATC
• F: Filed flight plan

Question 3

What is the purpose of a hold?

Answer 3

A maneuver designed to delay an aircraft already in flight while keeping it within a specified airspace.

Question 4

What kind of entries are there? Are they regulatory?

Answer 4

• Teardrop
• Parallel
• Direct
• No they are not regulatory

Question 5

What are standard turns in a hold? Left or right?

Answer 5

Righthand turns

Question 6

What are the different holding speed limits?

Answer 6

• <6000’: 200kts
• 6001-14,000: 230kts
• 14001<: 265kts

Question 7

When should you start slowing down to the hold speed limit?

Answer 7

3 minutes from the fix

Question 8

How much time should you fly the hold? And how would you correct it? On the inbound or outbound leg?

Answer 8

• 1 minute legs / 4 mile legs for published gps
• Reduce/increase time from the outbound leg to correct for the inbound leg

Question 9

What is a departure? What are the different kinds of departures?

Answer 9

• Published flight procedures followed by aircraft on an IFR flight plan immediately after takeoff from an airport.
• SIDs: Standard Instrument Departures
• ODP: Obstacle Departure Procedure

Question 10

What is the difference between a SID and an ODP?

Answer 10

• SIDs provide a departure procedure with obstacle clearance but mainly exist for ATC purposes. They are always depicted.
• ODPs are for obstacle clearance purposes. Can be textual of graphical

Question 11

Where can you find an ODP?

Answer 11

• Text: IAP books in text format
• Graphic: On a Departure Chart

Question 12

What is a compulsory reporting point? How do you report it?

Answer 12

A geographical location in relation to which the position of an aircraft is reported. Reporting points which must be reported to ATC.

Question 13

What is a STAR?

Answer 13

• Standard Terminal Arrival Route
• A STAR is an ATC coded IFR arrival route established for application to arriving IFR aircraft destined for certain airports. STARs simplify clearance delivery procedures, and also facilitate transition between en route and instrument approach procedures.
• Not mandatory

Question 14

When do you not have to do a procedure turn?

Answer 14

• Straight in
• Holding in lue
• DME arc
• Radar vectors
• No PT
• Timed approach
• Teardrop course reversal