Airspace & Airports

Question 1

What are the two categories of Airspace?

Answer 1

Regulatory & Nonregulatory

Question 2

What are the four types of airspaces?

Answer 2

controlled, uncontrolled, special use, and other airspace

Question 3

What are the four airspace classifications of controlled airspace and what do they require?

Answer 3

Class B, C, D, & E

ATC Authorization

Question 4

What class airspace sometimes resembles a wedding cake vertically?

Answer 4

Class B

Question 5

Where is the floor of a Class E airspace usually, unless otherwise specified?

Answer 5

700ft or 1200ft Above Ground Level (AGL)

Question 6

What airspace class usually consists of prohibited areas, restricted areas, warning areas, MOAs, alert areas, and CFA’s?

Answer 6

Special Use Airspace

Question 7

What airspace prohibits the flight of aircraft and is denoted on a sectional chart as the letter “P” followed by a number?

Answer 7

Prohibited Area

Question 8

What airspaces are hazardous to nonparticipating aircraft and are denoted on a section chart as the letter R followed by numbers.

Answer 8

Restricted Area

Question 9

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?

Answer 9

Alert Areas

Question 10

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?

Answer 10

Local Airport Advisory (LAA)

Question 11

What gives participating pilots additional radar services?

Answer 11

TRSA’s

Question 12

What designates TFRs?

Answer 12

NOTAMs

Question 13

Where does class A airspace begin?

Answer 13

18,000 MSL

Question 14

UNICOM, MULTICOM, FSS, and tower frequencies are examples of what service?

Answer 14

Common Traffic Advisory Frequencies (CTAF)

Question 15

What provides the most comprehensive information on a given airport?

Answer 15

Chart Supplements U.S.

Question 16

What is one way to receive NOTAM’s?

Answer 16

Online briefings at 1800WXBRIEF.com

Question 17

What is the key to monitoring traffic at an airport that does not have an operating control tower?

Answer 17

Common Traffic Advisory Frequencies (CTAF)

Question 18

What broadcast procedure and frequency would you use to self announce a non-towered airport without FSS or UNICOM

Answer 18

MULTICOM 122.9

Question 19

What direction do aircraft generally turn when circling a runway.

Answer 19

Planes turn left. Helicopters turn right.

Question 20

What is numbered by the compass degrees they face, minus a zero?

Answer 20

Runways

Question 21

What direction do planes take off and land on a runway relative to the wind?

Answer 21

Into the wind

Question 22

What color lights would you find on a manned aircraft’s wings?

Answer 22

(Facing the plane’s rear) Red on the Left, Green on the Right, White on the Tail

Question 23

Where is an aircraft that announces they are midfield left downwind to RWY 36?

Answer 23

West of the runway

Question 24

Class C controlled airspace typically includes airspace from…

Answer 24

the surface to 4000 MSL

Question 25

What provides a Local Airport Advisory (LAA)?

Answer 25

Flight Service Facilities

Question 26

How would a pilot say 10, 000?

Answer 26

one zero thousand

Question 27

How would a pilot say 13,500?

Answer 27

one three thousand, five hundred

Question 28

How would a pilot say 12, 500?

Answer 28

one two thousand five hundred

Question 29

If a plane announces their heading, are they referring to in relation to true or magnetic north?

Answer 29

Magnetic. (If you read it, it’s true. If you heard it, it’s magnetic)

Question 30

What do wingtip vortices created by large aircraft tend to do?

Answer 30

sink below the aircraft generating turbulence