Airspace & Airports Flashcards
What are the two categories of Airspace?
Regulatory & Nonregulatory
What are the four types of airspaces?
controlled, uncontrolled, special use, and other airspace
What are the four airspace classifications of controlled airspace and what do they require?
Class B, C, D, & E
ATC Authorization
What class airspace sometimes resembles a wedding cake vertically?
Class B
Where is the floor of a Class E airspace usually, unless otherwise specified?
700ft or 1200ft Above Ground Level (AGL)
What airspace class usually consists of prohibited areas, restricted areas, warning areas, MOAs, alert areas, and CFA’s?
Special Use Airspace
What airspace prohibits the flight of aircraft and is denoted on a sectional chart as the letter “P” followed by a number?
Prohibited Area
What airspaces are hazardous to nonparticipating aircraft and are denoted on a section chart as the letter R followed by numbers.
Restricted Area
What airspace area may contain a high volume of pilot training or an unusual type of aerial activity and is denoted on sectional charts as the letter A followed by a number?
Alert Areas
What is the advisory service provided by Flight Services facilities that gives local airport advisories, automated weather reporting with voice broadcasting, and ASOS/AWOS to name a few?
Local Airport Advisory (LAA)
What gives participating pilots additional radar services?
TRSA’s
What designates TFRs?
NOTAMs
Where does class A airspace begin?
18,000 MSL
UNICOM, MULTICOM, FSS, and tower frequencies are examples of what service?
Common Traffic Advisory Frequencies (CTAF)
What provides the most comprehensive information on a given airport?
Chart Supplements U.S.
What is one way to receive NOTAM’s?
Online briefings at 1800WXBRIEF.com
What is the key to monitoring traffic at an airport that does not have an operating control tower?
Common Traffic Advisory Frequencies (CTAF)
What broadcast procedure and frequency would you use to self announce a non-towered airport without FSS or UNICOM
MULTICOM 122.9
What direction do aircraft generally turn when circling a runway.
Planes turn left. Helicopters turn right.
What is numbered by the compass degrees they face, minus a zero?
Runways
What direction do planes take off and land on a runway relative to the wind?
Into the wind
What color lights would you find on a manned aircraft’s wings?
(Facing the plane’s rear) Red on the Left, Green on the Right, White on the Tail
Where is an aircraft that announces they are midfield left downwind to RWY 36?
West of the runway
Class C controlled airspace typically includes airspace from…
the surface to 4000 MSL
What provides a Local Airport Advisory (LAA)?
Flight Service Facilities
How would a pilot say 10, 000?
one zero thousand
How would a pilot say 13,500?
one three thousand, five hundred
How would a pilot say 12, 500?
one two thousand five hundred
If a plane announces their heading, are they referring to in relation to true or magnetic north?
Magnetic. (If you read it, it’s true. If you heard it, it’s magnetic)
What do wingtip vortices created by large aircraft tend to do?
sink below the aircraft generating turbulence
