AVIA 300 Quiz 4 Airport & Airport Traffic
AVIA 300 Quiz 4 Airport & Air Traffic Control Safety
Covers the Learn material from your textbook in Module 4: Week 4.
- What convinced ICAO to introduce the Global Aeronautical Distress & Safety System (GADSS)?
- What level of airspace is considered the highest level of control?
- Global airspace is divided into _____ ICAO air navigation regions,
- A type of airport certificated to serve unscheduled passenger operations of large air carrier aircraft. This class of airport cannot serve scheduled large or small air carrier aircraft.
- Site selection for a new airport requires a careful balance between a range of aeronautical, air- transport/commercial, practical, and environmental requirements.
- involves navigating from one point, waypoint, or x, to another, with these points often defined by latitude and longitude.
- and _______ airfoil, control, and sensor surfaces can have serious repercussions on the safe operation of the aircraft, including loss of lift, difficulty controlling the aircraft, and erroneous aircraft data. (Select all that apply)
- What are some of the considerations for planning an airport?
- Performance Based Navigation (PBN) is the FAA’s ongoing program to modernize the US NAS.
- Certicated airports must maintain what type of manual?
- What are some of the items found in an Airport Certification Manual (ACM)? (Select all that apply)
- ________ describes objects which can represent a hazard to an aircraft.
- Controller Pilot Data Link Communications (CPDLC) is a means of communication between controller and pilot, using the data link technology.
- What is an action of a pilot that violates any Federal Aviation Regulation?
- The ramp or apron of the airport is the area designated for aircraft rescue services and fireghting equipment?
- Means an airport owned by the US Department of Defense, at which both military and civilian aircraft make shared use of the aireld.
- The traveling public never sees the role that air traffic control plays from the start to the end of a flight and just how important it is.
- When Pedestrians or vehicles enter any portion of the airport movement areas without authorization from air traffic control, this is referred to as?
- The reality of aviation economics is that aircraft are only making money when they are ______.
- is a short-range (up to c. 200 NM) navigation device that transmits signals allowing the aircraft receiver to calculate a bearing (“radial”) to the beacon.
- In the United States, the FAA is responsible for the National Airspace System (NAS) which is a network of both controlled and uncontrolled airspace, both domestic and oceanic.
- consists of a localizer (providing horizontal guidance), a glideslope (providing vertical guidance), a marker beacon, and an approach light system
- This is an extension of RNAV in which the aircraft flies a specific path between two 3D points in space?
- ___________ is a radio beacon with no direction information encoded.
- A type of airport certificated to serve scheduled operations of small air carrier aircraft and the unscheduled passenger operations of large air carrier aircraft. This class of airport cannot serve scheduled large air carrier aircraft.