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Exam 4 Flashcards

1
Q

What are the 4 categories of airports?

A

Commercial service, cargo service, reliever, and general aviation airports

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2
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Is a commercial service airport one that is publicly owned and has at least 2,500 passengers per year?

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Yes

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3
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What are relieve airports?

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Airports designated by FAA (responsible for the safety of civil aviation) to relieve traffic at Commercial Services Airports

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4
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Are general aviation airports privately owned?

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Yes

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5
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Are the two types of airports, towered and non-towered?

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Yes

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6
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State the 4 common ways of getting airport data?

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Aeronautical charts, chart supplements, NOTAMs, and automated terminal information service (ATIS)

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7
Q

Why are runways laid out aligned according to the local prevailing winds?

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Because of the wind during take offs and landings. They do this due to the preferred take off/landing configuration being headwind

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8
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How are runway numbers determined and what is it?

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Based on the approach direction, and it’s a whole number reference to magnetic north

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9
Q

State 2 features of destination signs

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Black characters on a yellow background, and have arrows showing taxi route to destination at airport

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10
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What do runway holding position markings look like?

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Have 2 solid lines and 2 dashed lines

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11
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After landing, can aircraft taxi straight away past the lines? (As there will be dashed lines before the solid lines)

A

Yes

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12
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How many different types of airport beacons are there?

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4

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13
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What colours are the civilian land airports and the water airport beacons respectively?

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Flashing white and green, and flashing white and yellow respectively

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14
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What colours do heliports and military airports have?

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Flashing white, yellow, and green, and two quick white flashes alternating with green flash respectively

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15
Q

State two things maintaining a proper glide path does

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Adequate obstacle clearance and touchdown location on the runway

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16
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What does VASI and PAPI stand for?

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Visual approach slope indicator. Precision approach path indicator

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17
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Are you on the glide path when the lights are each showing two red and two white?

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Yes

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18
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What is the colour of the runway centreline and edge, and obstruction lights?

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White and red respectively

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19
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What colour are the taxiway lights and taxiway turnoff?

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Blue and green respectively

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20
Q

State the three wind direction indicators

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Wind cone or sock (also estimate wind velocity), tetrahedron, and wind tee

21
Q

Where can pilots find examples of proper radio communications?

A

In the Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM)

22
Q

Are airspaces categorised between regulatory and non-regulatory?

A

Yes

23
Q

State the 4 types of airspaces

A

Controlled, uncontrolled, special use, and other

24
Q

State 2 characteristics of Class A airspace

A

Generally begins from 18,000 feet mean sea level up to and including 60,000 feet. In this area, IFR is usually conducted

25
Q

What is the mnemonic for Class A airspace?

A

“Above all else”

26
Q

Is Class B airspace surrounding the nation’s busiest airports, and support both IFR and VFR (Instrument flight rules & Visual flight rules)?

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Yes

27
Q

What is the mnemonic for Class B airspaces and how many are airports lie in these in the USA?

A

“Big airports”, and 37 airports in the US lie in these areas

28
Q

Are Class C areas controlled airspaces found near mid-size airports that serve both general and airline traffic?

A

Yes

29
Q

Does the primary airport in this class have a ATCT and radar approach controls?

A

Yes

30
Q

What is the mnemonic for Class C airspaces?

A

“Cities”

31
Q

What is the mnemonic for Class D airspaces, and does it only have a tower? (not radar approach controls)

A

“Dinky airports”

32
Q

Is Class E airspaces every other one? (not A,B,C,D) What is it’s mnemonic?

A

Yes. “Everything else”.

33
Q

What is the mnemonic for Class G airspaces and is there a ATC tower?

A

“Government free”. No there is not

34
Q

When do special use airspaces occur?

A

Where aviation activities must be confined because of their potentially dangerous nature or national security

35
Q

What does TFR stand for?

A

Temporary flight restriction

36
Q

State 3 cases in which temporary flight restrictions may be implemented?

A

Over sightseeing areas, protecting public figures such as the President, and providing a safe environment for space agency operations

37
Q

What are the two primary purposes of ATC?

A

Prevent collision within the national airspace system and organise flow of traffic

38
Q

What are the three types of navigation?

A

Pilotage, dead reckoning, and electronic navigation

39
Q

Is pilotage the navigation of an aircraft purely based on an aeronautical chart and reference to visible landmarks?

A

Yes

40
Q

Is dead reckoning navigation by calculations?

A

Yes

41
Q

Is electronic navigation done solely based on radio and satellite navigation aids?

A

Yes

42
Q

Which of the aeronautical charts are most common and which is helpful when flying near Class B airspace?

A

Sectional, and terminal area respectively

43
Q

State the two angular distance coordinates used to navigate?

A

Latitude and longitude

44
Q

Is latitude measured 0’ to 90’ N or S and do the lines run east to west?

A

Yes

45
Q

Which axes are latitude and longitude reported on respectively?

A

Latitude: y axis
Longitude: x axis

46
Q

Does the latitude coordinate have 2 figures whereas the longitude coordinate represented with 3 figures?

A

Yes

47
Q

What is longitude?

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Measured 0’ to 180’ E or W and lines run north to south

48
Q

Are the angular distances measured in degrees, minutes, and seconds, and is latitude always read before longitude?

A

Yes

49
Q

When reading points have been taken from a graph however do not say the direction, can a minus be put if in southern hemisphere for latitude and a minus if in western hemisphere for longitude?

A

Yes

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