Unit 4

Question 1

Administrator

Answer 1

The FAA administrator or any person to whom he or she has delegated his/her authority in the matter of concerned.

Question 2

Aircraft

Answer 2

A device that is used or intended to be used for flight in the air

Question 3

Airframe

Answer 3

The fuselage, booms, nacelles, cowlings, fairlings, airfoil surfaces (excluding propellers of engines), and landing gear of an aircraft and their accessories and controls.

Question 4

Airplane

Answer 4

Engine-driven fixed-wing aircraft heavier than air that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its wings.

Question 5

Airport

Answer 5

Area of land or water that is used or intended to be used for the landing and takeoff of aircraft, and includes it’s buildings and facilities, if any.

Question 6

Air traffic

Answer 6

Aircraft operating in the air or on an airport service exclusive of loading ramps and parking areas.

Question 7

Air traffic clearance

Answer 7

Authorization by air traffic control, for the purpose of preventing a collision between known aircraft, for an aircraft to proceed under specified traffic conditions in controlled airspace.

Question 8

Air traffic control

Answer 8

A service operated by appropriate authority to promote the safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of air traffic.

Question 9

Alternate airport

Answer 9

An airport at which an aircraft may land if a landing at the intended airport becomes inadvisable.

Question 10

Ceiling

Answer 10

The height of the surface of the lowest layer of clouds or obscuring phenomena that is reported as broken overcast or obscuration and not classified as thin or partial.

Question 11

Civil aircraft

Answer 11

Aircraft other than public aircraft.

Question 12

Decision height

Answer 12

The height above ground level (AGL) at which a decision must be made during an instrument approach, either to continue the approach or to execute a missed approach. This can also be referred to as decision altitude (DA) which is expressed in feet above mean sea level (MSL).

Question 13

Flight plan

Answer 13

Specified information relating to the intended flight of an aircraft that is filed orally or in writing with air traffic control.

Question 14

Flight time

Answer 14

Pilot time that commences when an aircraft moves under power for the purpose of flight and ends when the aircraft comes to rest after landing.

Question 15

Flight visability

Answer 15

The average forward horizontal distance from the cockpit of an aircraft in flight at which prominent unlighted objects may be seen an identified by day and prominent lighted objects may be seen and identified by night.

Question 16

Ground Visibility

Answer 16

Prevailing horizontal visibility near the Earth’s surface as reported by the United States national weather service or an accredited observer.

Question 17

IFR Conditions

Answer 17

Weather conditions below the minimum for flight under visual flight rules.

Question 18

IFR over-the-top

Answer 18

The operation of aircraft over-the-top on an IFR flight plan when cleared by ATC to maintain “VFR conditions’ or ‘VFR conditions on top’

Question 19

Instrument

Answer 19

A device using an internal mechanism to indicate visually or aurally the attitude, altitude, or operation of an aircraft or aircraft part. It includes electronic devices for automatically controlling an aircraft in flight.

Question 20

Large aircraft

Answer 20

And aircraft having a maximumcertificated takeoff weight more than 12,500 lb.