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FAM Airport Criteria Flashcards

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Cat A Airport

A 
Approved for all OPS.
Can be nominated as:
Destination
Alternate
Adequate
Emergency

A Category A airport will have minimum equipment/manpower required to refuel and
dispatch an aircraft without Engineering support.

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Cat B Airport

A 
Approved for all OPS.
Can be nominated as:
Destination
Alternate
Adequate
Emergency

Has additional requirements to Cat A

These considerations may be operational, environmental or, on occasion, commercial.
The RMS Airport section lists the additional factors that should be considered.

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Cat C Airport

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A Category C airport is an airport that cannot be classified as a Category A or B airport
but is required for flight planning purposes.

A Category C airport cannot be planned as a Destination or Alternate airport but is
approved for use as an Adequate or Emergency airport.

Flight Crew are not to divert to a Category C airport for inflight medical emergencies.

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Emergency Airport

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For emergency only.

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Destination Airport

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Must be A or B airport

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Alternate Airport

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Cat A, B or C

Can be destination alternate ( flight may proceed to dest, and then alt) or any suitable airport on which DPA is based.

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Isolated Airport

A

No alternate geographically available

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Adequate Airport

A 
A, B or C Airport
Must satisfy CAO 82.0 Appendix 2
Adequate Airports found in RMS
Must: 
Be Available
Authorized to overfly and land
Have ground services or 30 min call out. In Aus PAL and CTAF is OK
Fire fighting services
1 approach
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Suitable Airport

A

Cat A or B airport that does not need an alt. or appropriate holding is carried

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Acceptable Airport

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An Acceptable airport is a Category A, B, C or Emergency airport which at the time of departure is:

forecast to be above Landing Minima for the applicable period
or has applicable holding fuel included.

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Available Airport

A

Captains call for the time of intended landing

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Overseas Alternate Critera

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Forecast ceiling added to the minima of the 2nd lowest independent approach.
Less than Cat 1 min. shall not be considered.
Precision: No lower than 400ft 1600m
Non Precision : No lower than 800ft 3000m

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Reduced Alt. Wx Criteria A330

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Dest. must have Cat II or Cat III and serviceable.
Alt. must have Cat II or Cat III available at time of use
Wx forecast for Vis. greater than Cat I RVR ( 800m vis or RVR 500m)
Other requirements if this is applied in-flight see FAM 15.3.7

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RVSM level change tolerance

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Do not over/undershoot by 150ft

More than 300ft a report must be submitted

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Curfew Airport Restrictions

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Sydney cannot be used as Alt during curfew

Any other airport can but holding may be requested if sufficient fuel is carried until after curfew.

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16
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Slope Guidance U/S restrictions

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Chief pilot approval for 7 days required.
Further recency requirements see FAM 15.9
Alt airports do not require slope guidance
737 with HUD and 12 months recency OK

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RFFS

A

All company Main and Alt airports RFFS has been assessed and is approved.
Adequate Airpots must have min Cat 4 services and at least a 30 min call out.
PIC may land at airport with no RFFS if need be.

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Safety Heights plan depictions

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Depicted on all plans above 10000ft and on all segments within 100nm of dep/dest.
Lowest safety height shown is 1000ft

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Safety Height MORA

A

Based on 1 degree grids
1000ft clearance below 5000ft
2000ft clearance above 5000 ft
Grid mora within 21nm either side of track examined
+/- on Grid MORA means incomplete terrain

20
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Digital Terrain Method

A 
8nm either side of track
\+RNP 4 required
2000ft buffer applied above 5000ft
1000ft buffer applied below  5000ft
Once off track Grid MORA MUST be used
21
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Unrestricted Airport or Route

A

Self brief by pilot before going

22
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Restricted Airport or Route

A

Pilot must complete Initial Qualification Requirements and renew every 12 months

23
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Medical Diversions

A

No Cat C or below and check RMS for some Cat B

24
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Departure Airport

A

Cat A or B: ok
Cat C: Call IOC and have Duty Captain Approval
Emergency: Chief Pilot Approval

25
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Takeoff Alternate

A

Required when Take-off Airport below Landing Min or cannot return.
A B C or Emergency
400nm or within ETOPS

26
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Operations Below LSALT/MSA Departure

A

SID
CDP
Surveillance
Visual Dep.

27
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Operations Below LASLT/MSA Arrival

A 
STAR
Inst. Appr
DME Charts
Surveillance
Visual Appr

Airbus A330 (7 decks)

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