General Control

Question 1

When do you not have to provide service in accordance with the 7110.65?

Answer 1

When other procedures or minima are prescribed in an LOA or FAA or Military documents or deviation is necessary to assist an emergency aircraft

Question 2

What is a controller’s first priority?

Answer 2

Separate aircraft and issues safety alerts and provide support to national security and homeland defense (including reporting suspicious and or unusual aircraft or pilot activity, good judgment must be used in prioritizing other situations based on the requirements of the situation at hand

Question 3

Issue a safety alert to aircraft under your control when…?

Answer 3

You are aware that the aircraft is at an altitude which in your judgment places the aircraft in unsafe proximity to terrain, obstructions, or other aircraft

Question 4

When does a safety alert become a first priority?

Answer 4

Once the controller observes and recognizes a situation of unsafe aircraft proximity to terrain, obstacles, or other aircraft (although a controller cannot see immediately the development of every situation they must remain vigilant for such situations and issue a safety alert when the situation is recognized) applies to VFR and IFR

Question 5

Provide additional services to the extent possible contingent upon….?

Answer 5

Higher priority duties, limitations to radar, volume of traffic, frequency congestion, workload

Question 6

Are additional services optional? And what are they?

Answer 6

No, required as workload permits and include merging target procedures, traffic advisories, and weather advisories

Question 7

Use automation procedures in preference to non-automation procedures when permitted by:

Answer 7

Workload, communications, and equipment

Question 8

Use radar separation in preference to non-radar procedures when?

Answer 8

It will be operationally advantageous and when workload, communications, and equipment permit

Question 9

Use non-radar separation in preference to radar separation when?

Answer 9

It will be operationally advantageous

Question 10

Provide ATC services on a ___ basis, except___?

Answer 10

• First come first served
• Aircraft in distress, Military Air Evacuation when requested, Scheduled air carrier/air taxi/civilian air ambulance flight use Lifeguard call sign, Search and Rescue while performing a SAR mission, presidential or vice presidential aircraft and any escort aircraft (including movement and related control messages when traffic and
communications permit) Flight check aircraft (when required provide special handling to expedite)

Question 11

Use the word immediately when…

Answer 11

Only when expeditious compliance is required to avoid an imminent situation (include reason if time permits)

Question 12

Use the word expedite when…

Answer 12

Only when prompt compliance is necessary to avoid the development of an imminent situation (include the reason if time permits) and expedite clearance is cancelled when a new instruction is given without the word expedite.

Question 13

What do you do when an aircraft reports an inflight equipment malfunction?

Answer 13

Determine the nature of the malfunction, consider any special handling, provide needed assistance, coordinate with other controllers and concerned facilities

Question 14

What does it mean when a pilot declares minimum fuel and what should the controller do?

Answer 14

• Minimum fuel indicates recognition by the pilot that his/her fuel supply has reached a state where, upon reaching destination, he/she cannot accept any undue delay. This is not an emergency situation but merely an advisory that indicates an emergency situation is possible should any undue delay occur.
• Controller should inform any other controller or facility that will assume control of the aircraft, provide necessary assistance, avoid undue delays

Question 15

Who must you report information concerning components of the NAS or flight conditions that may adversely affect air safety to? And what would be an example of this information?

Answer 15

• FSS, airport managers office, ARTCC, APCH control facility, operations office, or military office
• NAVAID outages, radar system failures, computer outages, turbulence, and other weather conditions.

Question 16

What do you do when an aircraft reports a ground based NAVAID malfunction? GPS anomaly?

Answer 16

• Request a report from another aircraft, if the second aircraft reports normal, continue use of NAVAID and inform the pilot making the report, if second pilot confirms malfunction or if unable to get a second report, notify FLM
• Report a GPS anomaly to FLM

Question 17

How do you control formation flights?

Answer 17

• Control formation flights as a single aircraft until aircraft have established separation and reported by pilot
• Issue control instructions to the formation leader and when individual control is requested issue advisory information that will assist the pilots in attaining
separation to the lead

Question 18

Can civil aircraft conduct formation flights?

Answer 18

Yes

Question 19

When can you allow an aircraft under your control to enter another controllers airspace?

Answer 19

After proper coordination

Question 20

What must be done before issuing control instructions to an aircraft not in your airspace?

Answer 20

Coordination with the controller whose airspace the aircraft is in, the controller receiving the transfer of control, and any intervening controllers whose airspace the aircraft will pass through, unless covered in an LOA or facility directive

Question 21

When do you transfer control responsibility?

Answer 21

• At a prescribed or coordinated location, time, fix, altitude or at the time a radar handoff and frequency change to the receiving controller have been completed as specified in an LOA or facility directive
• Only after eliminating any potential conflict with other aircraft for which you have separation responsibility

Question 22

When should you assume control of an aircraft?

Answer 22

Only after the aircraft is in your area of jurisdiction or specifically coordinated as specified in an LOA or FD

Question 23

When must you coordinate with the appropriate control tower?

Answer 23

Prior to issuing a clearance that would require flight within the surface area for which a tower has responsibility, unless in a LOA or for transit authorization when providing radar traffic advisory service to an aircraft that will enter another
facilities airspace

Question 24

When are communications transferred to a tower?

Answer 24

Prior to operation within the surface area if required

Question 25

When do you transfer communications of an aircraft?

Answer 25

Before the aircraft enters the receiving controllers airspace unless coordinated or specified in an LOA or FD

Question 26

Transfer communication by…

Answer 26

Who to contact (facility name, location name and terminal function), Frequency (optional for FSS and Departures if previously given or publish on a SID), Time, Fix, Altitude, or specified condition when to change (may be omitted if compliance is expected upon receipt)

Question 27

Controllers must take appropriate action to establish/restore communications with all aircraft for which a communications transfer or initial contact to his/her sector is expected or required when?

Answer 27

Within a reasonable amount of time (5 minutes from the time the aircraft enters the controllers area of jurisdiction or comes within range or radios/communications coverage)

Question 28

How do you instruct an aircraft to change to another frequency in your sector?

Answer 28

Change to my frequency (…)

Question 29

When should you avoid issuing a frequency change to a single piloted helicopter?

Answer 29

Air taxing, hovering, low level flight

Question 30

If you do not want a pilot to leave a frequency what do you do?

Answer 30

State “Remain this Frequency”

Question 31

When control responsibility is being transferred between facilities or between controllers within a facility, effect the transfer at a ___?

Answer 31

Time, fix or altitude

Question 32

How do you respond to a request from another controller?

Answer 32

• Restate the request in complete or abbreviated terms followed by APPROVED
• Issuing the requested clearance
• Stating restrictions followed by APPROVED
• Stating UNABLE (give reason if time permits)
• Stating STAND BY

Question 33

What conditions affecting sector operations should you ensure that your CIC or FLM are aware of?

Answer 33

Weather, Equipment status, Potential Sector Overload, Emergency Situations, Special Flights/Operations