CDC Vol 1, 004 Emergency Measures to Control Civilian Avaiation

Question 1

Who are the military authorities for the ESCAT plan in the 48 contiguous states, including Washington, D.C., and Alaska?hat agent of the D

Answer 1

The commander NORAD or individual NORAD region/sector commanders.

Question 2

How many priorities are contained in the EATPL?

Answer 2

Eight

Question 3

Which priority of the EATPL includes the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Canada?

Answer 3

Priority one

Question 4

What agent of the DoD is responsible for the air defense of the U.S.?

Answer 4

NORAD - North American Aerosapce Defense Command

Question 5

What defines the authorities, responsibilities, and procedures to identify and control air traffic within a specified air defense area during air defense emergencies, defense emergency, or national emergency conditions?

Answer 5

ESCAT Plan - (Emergency Security Control of Air Traffic)

Question 6

For the ESCAT plan, who is the military authority for the Forty-eight contiguous states, including Washington, D.C., and Alaska?

Answer 6

Commander NORAD or individual NORAD region/sector commanders.

Question 7

For the ESCAT plan, who is the military authority for the Hawaii, Guam, Wake Island, other US-Pacific territory and Pacific oceanic airspace over which FAA has ATC jurisdiction by international agreement?

Answer 7

Commander, US-Pacific Command (USPACOM) or designated area air defense commander (AADC).

Question 8

For the ESCAT plan, who is the military authority for the Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands?

Answer 8

Commander, NORAD

Question 9

What is a system of traffic priorities that defines priorities which may be used for the movement of air traffic in a defined area?

Answer 9

EATPL (ESCAT Air traffic Priority List)

Question 10

What is designed to provide for the most effective use of the airspace in the affected area?

Answer 10

ESCAT Plan - (Emergency Security Control of Air Traffic)

Question 11

What EATPL priority includes aircraft engaged in active continental defense missions, including anti-submarine aircraft, interceptors, air refueling tanker aircraft, and airborne early warning and control aircraft. Also military retaliatory aircraft supporting strategic missions, airborne command elements, and anchor annex flights are included?

Answer 11

Priority One

Question 12

What EATPL priority includes air transport of military commanders, their representatives, DOD/DND-sponsored key civilian personnel, non-DOD/DND, or other federal key civilian personnel who are important to national security. Dispersal of nontactical military aircraft for their protection is also included in this priority?

Answer 12

Priority Five

Question 13

What EATPL priority is for other military flight operations?

Answer 13

Priority Seven

Question 14

What EATPL priority includes dispersal of tactical military aircraft and US civil air carrier aircraft allocated to the civil reserve air fleet (CRAF) program and the repositioning of flight inspection aircraft for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOD, and Department of National Defense (DND) in connection with airway and airport facilities and activities. It also includes special military tactical pilot currency or proficiency and federal aircraft post maintenance check flights in support of homeland defense?

Answer 14

Priority Four

Question 15

What EATPL priority includes State and local LEA directly engaged in law enforcement missions; LIFEGUARD and MEDEVAC aircraft in direct support of emergency medical services; and flight operations essential to the development, production, and delivery of equipment, personnel, materials, and supplies essential to national security

Answer 15

Priority Six

Question 16

What EATPL priority includes forces deployed in direct support of military offensive and defensive operations, strategic missions, search and rescue aircraft and special operations missions are included in priority two. Federal flight operations in direct support of homeland security to include law enforcement agencies (LEA) and aircraft performing security for high threat targets such as nuclear power plants, dams, chemical plants, and other areas identified as high-threat targets are also included?

Answer 16

Priority Two

Question 17

What EATPL priority includes forces being deployed or performing predeployment training/workups in support of the emergency conditions, aircraft deployed in support of CONUS installation, and base defense and search and rescue aircraft not included in priority two?

Answer 17

Priority Three

Question 18

What EATPL priority includes Flight inspection aircraft flights in connection with emergency restoration of airway and airport facilities in support of immediate emergency conditions and CONUS Airborne Reconnaissance for Damage Assessment (CARDA) missions in support of immediate emergency conditions?

Answer 18

Priority Three

Question 19

What EATPL priority includes Flight inspection aircraft flights in connection with emergency restoration of airway and airport facilities in support of immediate emergency conditions and CONUS Airborne Reconnaissance for Damage Assessment (CARDA) missions in support of immediate emergency conditions?

Answer 19

Priority Three

Question 20

Describe the movement of air traffic under ESCAT?

Answer 20

• Will file instrument flight rules or visual flight rules flight plans
• Air traffic will be assigned a discrete transponder code and must be in direct radio communications with ATC
• The appropriate EATPL number will be passed with flight plan data from one ATC facility to the next / air defense control facilities as required.

Question 21

When you read latitude and longitude, you should always read from?

Answer 21

From lower to the higher numbers