PHRASEOLOGY Flashcards
A defined area on land or water (including any buildings, installations and equipment) intended to be used either wholly or in part for the arrival, departure and surface movement of aircraft.
Aerodrome
Air traffic control unit/air traffic controller next to take control of an aircraft.
Accepting Unit/Controller
Which unit do NOT offer Air Traffic Control Service?
Flight Information Center
Which is NOT a part of Maneuvering Area?
Apron
TRUE OR FALSE: Terminal Control Area (TMA) should have minmum of two (2) or more major Aerodromes.
False
Last leg of Aerodrome Traffic Circuit before the Aircraft lands on a runway.
Final
True or False: Control Zone is a controlled airspace extending upwards from a specified limit above the earth.
False
A specified geographical location in relation to which the position of an aircraft can be reported.
Reporting Point
Any occurrence at an aerodrome involving the incorrect presence of an aircraft, vehicle or person on the protected area of a surface designated for the landing and take-off of aircraft.
Runway Incursion
The airspace between airspaces using Flight Levels and Altitude.
Transition Layer
A Taxiway connected to runway with an acute angle minimizing runway occupancy times for landing aeroplanes.
Rapid Exit Taxiway
Air Traffic Service Objectives: (PPEPN)
- Prevent collisions between aircraft;
- Prevent collisions between aircraft on the maneuvering area and obstructions on that area;
- Expedite and maintain an orderly flow of air traffic;
- Provide advice and information useful for the safe and efficient conduct of flights;
- Notify appropriate organizations regarding aircraft in need of search and rescue aid, and assist such organizations as required.
The Unit established to provide flight information service and alerting service
Flight information Center
Unit established for the purpose of receiving reports concerning air traffic service and flight plans submitted before departure
Air Traffic Services Reporting office
In ___, the city hired the first US Air traffic controller _____, a pilot and mechanic who had barnstormed around the area with his “flying circus”
1929, Archie W. League
these are the words and phrases you must familiarized
yourself with for Aerodrome Operations
Nomenclatures
Air traffic control unit/air traffic controller in the process of transferring the responsibility for providing air traffic control service to an aircraft to the next air traffic control unit/air traffic controller along the route of flight.
Transferring unit/controller
Transfer of control point shall be identified depending on the ___ between control units. The incoming aircrafts will be coordinated to the Accepting units by Transferring units. Transferring unit is responsible for the control of aircraft until the aircraft contacts the next control unit.
letter of agreement (LOA)
That part of an aerodrome to be used for the take-off, landing and
taxiing of aircraft, consisting of the maneuvering area and the
apron(s).
Movement area.
A defined area, on a land aerodrome,intended to accommodate aircraft for purposes of loading or unloading passengers, mail or cargo, fuelling, parking or maintenance
Apron
That part of an aerodrome to be used for the take-off, landing and taxiing of aircraft, excluding aprons.
Maneuvering area
All traffic on the maneuvering area of an aerodrome and all aircraft flying in the vicinity of an aerodrome. Note. — An aircraft is in the vicinity of an aerodrome when it is in, entering or leaving an aerodrome traffic circuit.
Aerodrome Traffic
All aircraft in flight or operating on the maneuvering area of an
aerodrome.
Air traffic
The specified path to be flown by aircraft operating in the vicinity of an aerodrome.
Aerodrome traffic circuit
A specified route designed for channeling the flow of traffic as necessary for the provision of air traffic services. The term “___” is used to mean variously, airway, advisory route, controlled or uncontrolled route, arrival or departure route, etc
ATS route
Air-to-ground communication
One-way communication from aircraft to stations or locations on the surface of the earth
A controlled airspace extending upwards from a specified limit above the earth
Control area
A controlled airspace extending upwards from the surface of the earth to a specified upper limit.
Control zone
A control area or portion thereof established in the form of a corridor.
Airway
A designated route along which air traffic advisory service is available.
Advisory route
A point on the surface of the earth common to the tracks of two
aircraft, used as a basis for the application of separation (e.g. significant point, waypoint, navigation aid, fix).
Common point
A specified geographical location used in defining an ATS route or the flight path of an aircraft and for other navigation and ATS purposes.
Significant point
There are three categories of
significant points: ____ In the context of this definition, intersection is a significant point expressed as radials, bearings and/or distances from ground based navigation aids.
ground-based navigation aid
intersection and
waypoint.
A specified geographical location used to define an area navigation route or the flight path of an aircraft employing area navigation. ___ are identified as either
Waypoints
A control area normally established at the confluence of ATS routes in the vicinity of one or more major aerodromes.
Terminal control area (TMA)
A defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft.
Runway
Taxiway is a defined path on a land aerodrome established for the taxiing of aircraft and intended to provide a link between one part of the aerodrome and another, including:
Aircraft stand taxilane. Apron taxiway. Rapid exit taxiway.
Specified information provided to air traffic services units, relative to an intended flight or portion of a flight of an aircraft.
Flight plan
The visibility forward from the cockpit of an aircraft in flight.
Flight visibility
The direction in which the longitudinal axis of an aircraft is pointed, usually expressed in degrees from North (true, magnetic, compass or grid).
Heading
A predetermined maneuver which keeps an aircraft within a specified airspace while awaiting further clearance.
Holding procedure
A geographical location that serves as a reference for a holding procedure.
Holding fix
The procedure to be followed if the approach cannot be continued.
missed approach procedure
Term used to indicate that information derived from an ATS
surveillance system is not required for the provision of air traffic control service.
Procedural control
A VFR flight cleared by air traffic control to operate within a control zone in meteorological conditions below VMC.
Special VFR flight
The lowest flight level available for use above the transition altitude.
Transition level
The airspace between the transition altitude and the transition
level.
Transition Layer
The altitude at or below which the vertical position of an aircraft is controlled by reference to altitudes.
Transition altitude
shall be provided by: An Area Control Center
Area control service
the unit providing approach control service in a control area of limited extent which is designated primarily for the provision of approach control service, as specified in ATS Orders, contingency procedures, letters of agreement or unit instructions, when availability and/or reliability of communication and/or ATS surveillance system prevents the that unit
Area control service
“Approach Control Unit or any unit providing Approach Control Service may provide ___ up to certain extent when reliability of communication and/or surveillance system of ___ is compromised.”
Area control service
shall be provided by: by an aerodrome control tower or an ACC, when it is necessary or desirable to combine under the responsibility of one unit the functions of the approach control service and those of the aerodrome control service or the area control service; or; by an approach control unit, when it is necessary or desirable to establish a separate unit.
Approach Control Service
“ACC or Aerodrome control Tower may provide __ when it is necessary or desirable”
Approach Control Service
shall be provided by an aerodrome control tower “No other control unit may provide Aerodrome control Service”
Aerodrome control service
Just like pilots and other aviators, Air Traffic Controllers are licensed and rated depending on ___
the service they may provide.
Arriving Aircraft
Control of an arriving aircraft will be passed from the team managing approach control to the team overseeing aerodrome control under the following circumstances:
a) is in the vicinity of the aerodrome,
1) it is considered that approach and landing will be completed in visual reference to the ground,
2) has reached uninterrupted visual
meteorological conditions
b) is at prescribed point or level
c) has Landed
Departing aircraft.
Control of a departing aircraft will be transferred from the team managing aerodrome control to the team overseeing approach control in the following situation: (a)
a) when visual meteorological conditions prevail in the vicinity of the aerodrome:
- prior to the time the aircraft leaves the vicinity of
the aerodrome, - prior to the aircraft entering instrument meteorological conditions,
- when the aircraft is at a prescribed point or
level, as specified in letters of agreement or ATS unit instructions.
Departing aircraft.
Control of a departing aircraft will be transferred from the team managing aerodrome control to the team overseeing approach control in the following situation: (b)
b) when instrument meteorological conditions prevail at the aerodrome:
- immediately after the aircraft is airborne, or
- when the aircraft is at a prescribed point or
level, as specified in letters of agreement or local instructions
“Letter of agreement must be established between control units based on the context of the aerodrome or airspace in a given location. ____ are some of the factors to be considered on the said context for the operation of Aerodrome.”
Volume of Air Traffic in a day/per hour, Airport capability, Geographical Location
“release” is a word critical between Approach and ACC and
signifies _____
transfer of control to or from either of control unit.
must be established between control units. Flight Levels, Reporting Points/Transfer of Control Point/Fix, and coordination of aircrafts are some of information needed to be identified by two control units for their _______
LOA
