Aircraft Construction, Repair and Modification

Question 1

Any machine that can derive support in the atmosphere from the reactions of the
air other than the reactions of the air against the earth’s surface

Answer 1

Aircraft

Question 2

• Any individual who engages, as the person in command or as pilot, mechanic,
  aeronautical engineer, flight radio operator or member of the crew, in the navigation of
  aircraft while underway and any individual who is directly in charge of inspection,
  maintenance, overhauling, or repair of aircraft, aircraft engine, propellers, or appliances;
  and individual who serves in the capacity of aircraft dispatcher or air traffic control
  operator.

Answer 2

Airman

Question 3

• A certificate authorizing an operator to carry out specified commercial air transport operations

Answer 3

Air Operator Certificate

Question 4

• Power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft, deriving its lift in flight chiefly from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces which remain fixed under given conditions of flight.

Answer 4

Airplane (Aeroplane)

Question 5

• A defined area on land or water including any buildings, installations and equipment intended to be used either wholly or in part for the arrival, departure and surface movement of aircraft.

Answer 5

Airport (Aerodrome)

Question 6

A power-driven lighter-than-air aircraft.

Answer 6

▪ Airship

Question 7

• An organization approved by the Philippine authority, in accordance with the requirements of Annex 6, Part I, Chapter 8 - Aeroplane Maintenance, to perform maintenance of aircraft or parts thereof and operating under supervision approved by the Philippine Republic

Answer 7

Approved Maintenance Organization (AMO)

Question 8

An organization approved by the Authority in accordance with the requirements of CAR Part 3 to perform training (e.g.: flight crew training) and operating under the supervision of the Authority (Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines).

Answer 8

Approved Training Organization (ATO)

Question 9

• A particular combination of the positions of the
  moveable elements, such as wing flaps and landing gear, etc., that affect the aerodynamic
  characteristics of the aeroplane.

Answer 9

Configuration (As applied to the aeroplane)

Question 10

A list established by the organization responsible for the type design with the approval of the State of Design which identifies any external parts of an aircraft type which may be missing at the commencement of a flight, and which contains, where necessary, any information on associated operating limitations and performance correction.

Answer 10

Configuration deviation list (CDL)

Question 11

• A unit used or intended to be used for aircraft propulsion. It consists of at least those
  components and equipment necessary for the functioning and control, but excludes the propeller (if applicable).

Answer 11

Engine

Question 12

• A non-power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft, deriving, its lift in flight chiefly from aerodynamic reactions on surfaces which remain fixed under given conditions of flight.

Answer 12

Glider

Question 13

• A heavier-than-air aircraft supported in flight by the reactions of the air on one or more rotors which rotate freely on substantially vertical axes

Answer 13

Gyroplane

Question 14

• Any aircraft deriving its lift in flight chiefly from aerodynamic forces.

Answer 14

Heavier-than-Air

Question 15

• A heavier-than-air aircraft supported in flight chiefly by the reactions of the air on one or more power-driven rotors on substantially vertical axes.

Answer 15

Helicopter

Question 16

▪ - Any aircraft supported chiefly by its buoyancy in the air ▪

Answer 16

Lighter-than-air aircraft

Question 17

• The performance of tasks required to ensure the continuing airworthiness of an aircraft, including any one or combination of overhaul, inspection, replacement, defect rectification, and the embodiment of a modification or repair.

Answer 17

Maintenance

Question 18

• A document endorsed by the head of the maintenance organization which details the maintenance organization’s structure and management responsibilities, scope of work, description of facilities, maintenance procedures and quality assurance or inspection systems.

Answer 18

Maintenance organization’s procedures manual (MOPM)

Question 19

• A certification confirming that the maintenance work to which it relates has been complied with in accordance with the applicable standards of airworthiness, using approved data.

Answer 19

▪ Maintenance release.

Question 20

• A list which provides for the operation of aircraft, subject to specified conditions, with particular equipment inoperative, prepared by an operator in conformity with, or more restrictive than, the MMEL established for the aircraft type.

Answer 20

• Minimum equipment list (MEL).

Question 21

• A notice distributed by means of telecommunication containing information concerning the establishment, condition or change in any aeronautical facility, service, procedure or hazard, the timely knowledge of which is essential to personnel concerned with flight operations.

Answer 21

NOTAM (Notice to Airmen).

Question 22

• A document which describes the operator’s procedures necessary to ensure that all scheduled and unscheduled maintenance is performed on the operator’s aircraft on time and in a controlled and satisfactory manner.

Answer 22

Operator’s maintenance control manual (OMCM).

Question 23

• A heavier-than-air aircraft capable of vertical take-off, vertical landing, and low-speed flight, which depends principally on engine-driven lift devices or engine thrust for the lift during these flight regimes and on non-rotating airfoil(s) for lift during horizontal flight. *

Answer 23

Powered-lift.

Question 24

• All the planned and systematic activities implemented within the quality system, and demonstrated as needed, to provide adequate confidence that an entity will fulfil requirements for quality.

Answer 24

Quality Assurance.

Question 25

• The operational techniques and activities that are used to fulfil requirements for quality.

Answer 25

Quality Control.

Question 26

• All activities of the overall management function that determine the quality policy, objectives and responsibilities, and implementing them by means such as quality planning, quality control, quality assurance and quality improvement within the quality system.

Answer 26

• Quality Management.

Question 27

• Documented organizational procedures and policies; internal audit of those policies and procedures; management review and recommendation for quality improvement.

Answer 27

• Quality System.

Question 28

• An authorization entered on or associated with a license and forming part thereof, stating special conditions, privileges or limitations pertaining to such license.

Answer 28

• Rating.

Question 29

• The restoration of an aeronautical product to an airworthy condition to ensure that the aircraft
  continues to comply with the design aspects of the appropriate airworthiness requirements used for the issuance of the type certificate for the respective aircraft type, after it has been damaged or subjected to wear.

Answer 29

• Repair.

Question 30

• A document signed by an authorized representative of an approved maintenance
  organization (AMO) in respect of an inspection, repair or modification on a complete aircraft, engine or propeller after it has received a Maintenance Release for the maintenance performed at an AMO.

Answer 30

• Return to Service (RTS).

Question 31

• A power-driven heavier-than-air aircraft supported in flight by the reactions of the air on one or
  more rotors.

Answer 31

• Rotorcraft.

Question 32

• A systematic approach to managing safety, including the necessary organizational structures, accountabilities, policies and procedures.

Answer 32

• Safety management system (SMS).

Question 33

• means a powered aircraft with a framed pivoting wing and a fuselage controllable only in pitch and roll by the pilot’s ability to change the aircraft’s center of gravity with respect to the wing. Flight control of the aircraft depends on the wing’s ability to flexibly deform rather than the use of control surfaces

Answer 33

Weight-shift-control aircraft.