Section 1-02 ATC Basics

Question 1

What is March Airport Elevation

Answer 1

750’ ASL (Rounded to 800 for airspace classification)

Question 2

What is the name of the ACC serving March Terminal

Answer 2

Midtown Terminal

Question 3

What are March Terminal Tower and Ground frequencies?
And what is midtown Terminal departure and enroute frequencies?

Answer 3

Tower: 118.2
Ground: 121.9

Departure: 199.4
Enroute 127.4

Question 4

What class airspace is the MArch Control Zone?

Answer 4

Class D

Question 5

What are the MArch Runway Designations and lengths

Answer 5

Runway 14-32 (6900’x200’)
Runway 09-27 (8800’x200’)

Question 6

What are the 3 Elements of service fundamentals?

Answer 6

Control Service
ATS Surveillance Service
VDF Service

Question 7

What are the 4 elements of FLight Information Service?

Answer 7

Information Service
Weather Information
Aerodrome information
NOTAMS

Question 8

What is Functional goal number 1

Answer 8

The uniform application of standards and procedures, professional communication and full time attentive flight monitoring and flight information service provision.

Question 9

Define Control Service

Answer 9

Issuing clearances and instructions for safe, orderly and expiditious flow of traffic

Question 10

To whom do you provide a control service?

Answer 10

Control services are issued for all aircraft and vehicles in the manoeuvering area (ground) and the control zone (air) as well as IFR flights for which the tower has assumed responsibility.

Question 11

Define airport traffic

Answer 11

All traffic in the manoeuvering area and all aircraft flying in the vicinity of the airport.

Question 12

Define manoeuvering area

Answer 12

Part of the aerodrome other than the apron that is intended to be used for the takeoff and landing of aircraft and for the movement of aircraft associated with takeoff and landing.

Question 13

Define control zone

Answer 13

Controlled airspace of defined dimensions upwards from the surface to 3000’ AAE (3800’ for March airport and a radius of 5 nm)

Question 14

What are the 3 fundamentals of safe, orderly and expiditious control of traffic?

Answer 14

Plan: Determine appropriate separation minimas
Execute: Implement the selected standard
Monitor: Ensure that planned and executed separation is maintained

Question 15

Which operations take precedence over the standard practice of “first come, first served”?

Answer 15

1: and pilot who declares an emergency
2: any aircraft that appears to be in a state of emergency but is apparently unable to inform you
3: Pilot reporting the aircraft may be compelled to land because of factors affecting operations other than fuel emergency or minimum fuel.
4: Medical evacuation flights (MEDEVAC) (HOSPITAL is lower priority but treated similarly)
5:Military or civilian aircraft Identified by radiotelephony call sign RESCUE and designator RSCU followed by an appropriate flight number
6:Open skies treaty flights with designator F or D.
7: Military aircraft departing on operational defense flights or planned and coordinated defense exercises unless emergency conditions occur or may be caused by their departure.

You may give priority to urgent police matters of active firefighting missions.

Question 16

According to MATS what comprises an information service?

Answer 16

Flight condition updates after departure
ATIS exemptions
Flight hazards
MANOT
Wildlife or Bird Activity
Chaff drop
Forest Fires
Polution
CIRVIS

Question 17

In what document would you find details about what constitues a NOTAM?

Answer 17

Canadian NOTAMs procedures Manual

Question 18

Can controllers open or close runways?

Answer 18

No, Controllers cannot close runways but they can divert traffic away from runways if the situation warrants. However, a Controller cannot use a runway that the facility has designated as closed for some reason.

Question 19

Define FIC?

Answer 19

Flight information Center/ Acentralized ATS unit that provides services pertinent to the preflight an enroute phase of a flight.

Question 20

Define ATOS

Answer 20

Air traffic operations specialist: Responsible for receiving and reviewing data for air traffic control operations. They are also responsible for SAR operations for IFR aircraft. In general they support the operation of an ACC.

One of their primary tasks is to process IFR flight plans.

Question 21

Waht should you tell a pilot who is requestin to change a VFR flight plan?

Answer 21

To contact the appropriate FIC

Question 22

What is the differnce between an agreement and an arrangement?

Answer 22

Agreement is an operational accord between NAVCANADA and an outside part regarding the provision of ATS, while and arrangement is an operational accord between NAC CANADA units regarding the provision of ATS.

Question 23

Define TRA

Answer 23

Tower Radar area, an area of defined dimensions surrounding a controlled aerodrome in which ATS Surveillance services are provided. It is often the same size as the control zone but not always.

Question 24

Define Aerodrome

Answer 24

Any area of land, water, or other supporting surface, used, designed, prepared, set apart for use, either in whole or in part, for the arrival, departure, movement or serviccing of aircraft. This includes any buildings, installations or equipment situated theron or associated therewith.

Question 25

Ground Traffic

Answer 25

All non aircraft traffic operating on the manoeuvering area and runway protected area such as vehicles, equipment or personel.

Question 26

Air Traffic

Answer 26

All aircraft in flight or operating on the manoeuvering area of an aerodrome.

Question 27

Runway Protected area

Answer 27

Area around an active runway estabilshed to protect aircraft taking off and landing from taxiing aircraft and ground traffic. (commonly 200’ from runway edge in all directions)

Question 28

What is the main differnce between a flight plan a flight itinerary?

Answer 28

The SAR time frame. Flight plan is 1 hour window and FLight Itinerary is 24 hours. (All IFR flights must have flight plans and any flight leaving canada must have a flight plan).
VFR must file either a flight plan or itinerary if the flight is more than 25 nm from departure aerodrome

Question 29

When would some one issue a voice NOTAM?

Answer 29

When the incident will span less than one hour of effective time.

Question 30

RADAR flight following

Answer 30

Observation of the progress of a radar identified aircraft which is primarily being navigated by the pilot.

Question 31

ATS Surveillance monitoring

Answer 31

Using ATS surveillance for providing aircraft with information and adivce relative to significant deviatiosn from a normal flight path.

Question 32

What is the exemption from ATIS information sharing?

Answer 32

Rapidly changing conditions. Outside of this you do not have to specify information to the pilot that is being provided in the ATIS provided they have acknowledged the receipt of the broadcast. The exception to this is the active runway number, which must always be communicated to the pilot.

Question 33

Define apron

Answer 33

The part of aerodrome surface, other than the manouevering area that is intedned for the unloading/loading of passengers and cargo, the refueling, service, maintenance and parking of aircraft, and the movemnt of aircraft, vehicles and pedestrians in service of the prior listed purposes.

Question 34

CARS

Answer 34

Community aerodrome radio station. An aeronautical radio station established to provide aviation support services at certain isolated aerodromes in the Arctic and norther Quebec.

Question 35

Define Airport control service

Answer 35

A control service provided by airport control towers to all aircraft and vehicles on the manoeuvering area and to all aircraft operating in the vicinity of an airport.