Flight Rules Vocab Flashcards
What is a flight plan?
Specified information relating to the intended flight of an aircraft
What is Specified information relating to the intended flight of an aircraft?
a flight plan
How is a flight plan filed?
orally or in writing
Can a flight plan be filed orally and/or in writing?
Yes
What 2 organizations can a flight plan be filed with?
FSS
ATC
Can a flight plan be filed with FSS and/or ATC?
Yes
What is IMC?
Instrument Meteorological Conditions
What are Instrument Meteorological Conditions?
Meteorological conditions expressed in terms of:
Visibility
Distance from cloud
Ceiling less than the minima specified for visual meteorological conditions
What are Meteorological conditions expressed in terms of visibility, distance from cloud, and ceiling less than the minima specified for visual meteorological conditions?
Instrument Meteorological Conditions (IMC)?
What does VMC stand for?
Visual Meteorological Conditions
In what terms are Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC) expressed?
In terms of:
visibility,
distance from cloud,
ceiling equal to or better than specified minima.
What are Meteorological conditions expressed in terms of visibility, distance from cloud, and ceiling equal to or better than specified minima?
Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC)
What does SVFR stand for?
Special VFR
What is Special VFR (SVFR)?
- Aircraft operating with clearance
- Class B, C, D, and E surface areas
- Worse weather conditions than VFR.
What is it when Aircraft are operating in accordance with clearances within Class B, C, D, and E surface areas in weather conditions less than the basic VFR weather minima.
Special VFR (SVFR)
What does DVFR stand for?
Defense VFR
What is Defense VFR?
Rules applicable to flights within an ADIZ conducted under the visual flight rules.
What does ADIZ stand for?
Air Defense Identification Zone
Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ)?
- airspace over land or water,
- extending upward from the surface,
- in which the identification, location, and control of aircraft are required
- for national security.
What is the area of airspace over land or water, extending upward from the surface, within which the ready identification, the location, and the control of aircraft are required in the interest of national security referred to as?
Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ)
What does DEWIZ stand for?
Distant Early Warning Identification Zone
What is the Distant Early Warning Identification Zone?
An ADIZ over the coastal waters of the State of Alaska.
What is the ADIZ over the coastal waters of the State of Alaska referred to as?
Distant Early Warning Identification Zone (DEWIZ)
What is the MEA?
Minimum Enroute IFR Altitude
What is the Minimum Enroute IFR Altitude (MEA)?
The lowest published altitude between radio fixes
Minimum Enroute IFR Altitude assures?
acceptable navigational signal coverage
What kind of clearance requirements does Minimum Enroute IFR Altitude (MEA) meet?
obstacle clearance requirements between radio fixes.
What is the the lowest published altitude between radio fixes which assures acceptable navigational signal coverage and meets obstacle clearance requirements between these fixes referred to as?
Minimum Enroute IFR Altitude (MEA)
What does MOCA stand for?
Minimum Obstruction Clearance Altitude
Minimum Obstruction Clearance Altitude (MOCA)?
- The lowest published altitude
2. between radio fixes
MOCA are published around?
- VOR airways
- Off airway routes or route segments which
- meet obstacle clearance requirements for the entire route segment
Minimum Obstruction Clearance Altitudes (MOCA) do?
provide:
1. navigational signal coverage
2. within 25 SM
3. of a VOR.
What is the lowest published altitude in effect between radio fixes on VOR airways, off airway routes or route segments which meet obstacle clearance requirements for the entire route segment and assures acceptable navigational signal coverage only within 25 SM (22 nautical miles) of a VOR referred to as?
Minimum Obstruction Clearance Altitude (MOCA)
NORDO?
- Aircraft
- that cannot or
- do not communicate
- by radio
- when radio communication is required.
What are Aircraft that cannot or do not communicate by radio when radio communication is required referred to as?
NORDO
What is the Clearance Limit?
The 1. fix, 2. point, 3. or location to which an aircraft is cleared when issued an air traffic clearance.
What is the fix, point, or location to which an aircraft is cleared when issued an air traffic clearance?
Clearance Limit
What does EFC stand for?
Expect Further Clearance
What is Expect Further Clearance (EFC)?
The
- time/
- route/
- altitude/etc. a pilot can expect to receive clearance for beyond the clearance limit.
What is The time/route/altitude/etc. a pilot can expect to receive clearance for beyond the clearance limit referred to as?
Expect Further Clearance (EFC)
What is Clear of Clouds?
- An advisory that
- there is no specified distance to remain away from clouds,
- but aircraft must not fly through them.
What is the instance where there is no specified distance to remain away from clouds, but aircraft must not fly through them called?
Clear of Clouds
What does VOR stand for?
- Very High Frequency (VHF)
2. Omni-Directional Range (VOR)
Very High Frequency (VHF) Omni-Directional Range (VOR)?
a type of short-range radio navigation system