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The AAAE Certified Member Modules are materials airport managers can use as...
- Airport regulation
- Airport case Law
- Final authoritative documents
- A daily reference and field guide A daily reference and field guide Which statement is False?
- Each Airport has its own unique geography
- it is impossible to accurately capture how each public-use airport in the US operates at all levels of its position
- When you've seen one airport, you've seen one airport
- Each airport has the same operating characteristics Each airport has the same operating characteristics When using the term "Airport Sponsor", the authors of the AAAE modules are referring to the...
- Airport director
- Governing body
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Airport management Governing body An airport has many customers, however, the airport must serve the...
- Community
- Stakeholders
- Pilot
- Airlines Pilot In 1970, The Airport and Airway Development Act brought about all except the following
- Airport and Airway Trust Fund
- Planning Grant Program (PGP)
- Airport Development Aid Program (ADAP)
- National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) (T/F) The FAA does not include in its planning or funding decision-making any private airports unless they are publicly accessible or military airports that do not host any civilian operations. True The National Plan of integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) identifies 3,345 public-use airports that are important to the national air transportation system and eligible to receive grant funds under the FAA Airport Improvement Program (AIP). An airport can be included in the NPIAS for all of the following reasons except...
- GA reliever airport
- Serving a community that is at least 15 minutes from the nearest NIPIAS airport
- Publicly owned
- Part of a State Airport System Serving a community that is at least 15 minutes from the nearest NPIAS airport Commercial service airports are grouped into two major categories
- National and Regional
- Civilian and Military
Successful airports can be observed creating effective working relationships between
- City and County
- Vendors and Customers
- Airlines and Pilots
- Airport policy makers and Management Airport policy makers and Management (T/F) Airport sponsors must maintain their responsibility to the FAA to operate the airport as an essential component of the national aviation system without regard to any negative impact to the airport's community False As a manager of a federally obligated public-use airport, your airport generates revenue, such as landing fees, building rentals, and fuel flowage fees. What percentage of the income derived must be utilized for airport purposes?
- 0%
- 100%
- 100% in excess of Fair Market Value (FMV)
- 50% 100% Airports are distinctly different from traditional municipal operations in that they can operate as
- Centralized governments
- Federal agencies
- L.L.Cs
- Stand-alone enterprises Stand-alone enterprises Generally, airport authority board members are compensated as follows:
- $1 a year to comply with federal and state labor laws
- Fair Market Value
- Minimum Wage
- Do not receive compensation and serve in a voluntary capacity Do not receive compensation and serve in a voluntary capacity Each type of airport of ownership has advantages and disadvantages. What is a potential disadvantage to the municipality owned structure?
- Power to tax and issue bonds
- access to other city/county departments
- Can be viewed as another department of the city/county
- Access to larger sources of funding Can be viewed as another department of the City/County The debate over the status of the airport as either a public entity or a business enterprise will likely continue for decades, but the simplest understanding is that...
- An airport is a government entity run by elected officials
- An airport is a Department of Transportation sub-organization
- An airport is a public entity that is run like a business
- An airport is an enterprise fund with many departments An airport is a public entity that is run like a business
The Flight Standards District Office, commonly known as FSDO, is responsible for
- Food safety on the concourses
- Flow of air traffic and NAVAID maintenance
- Enforcing laws for aircraft and pilot certification and licensing
- Regulating all aviation safety in the US Enforcing laws for aircraft and pilot certification and licensing Federal Grant Assurances require the airport operator to do all of the following except:
- Operate the airport in the public interest
- Use specific lands approved by the FAA for non-aeronautical use to generate revenue to support the airport's aviation needs
- Grant exclusive rights for aeronautical purposes or uses
- Maintain the airport in good and serviceable condition Grant exclusive rights for aeronautical purposes or uses If the FAA or an aeronautical user believes that the airport is in violation of its Grant Assurances, it may file a complaint with the FAA through the Part 13 or Part 16 process. Part 13 complaints are...
- Considered informal
- Handled with definitive timelines
- submitted straight to FAA headquarters
- Typically used for Grant Assurance Violations Considered Informal
(T/F) The Federal government has complete authority over airspace and aircraft operations. True Airport land use is critical component of airport management. Grant Assurance 5. Preserving Rights and Powers prevents an airport Sponsor from taking any action that may deprive the Airport Sponsor of its rights to
- Charge fees consistent with the sustainability rule
- Create jobs and payroll
- Direct and control airport development
- Regulate interstate commerce Direct and control airport development (T/F) The FAA Grant Assurances require the Airport Executive to attempt to prevent both incompatible land use and obstructions to the navigable airspace around the airport even it it's beyond the airports property boundaries True The airport property map does all of the following except
- Show funding source used to acquire tracts
- Show proposed airport development
- Indicate use of land
- Indicate how tracts were acquired Show proposed airport development
Grant Assurance 19 requires the airport to be operating all times in a safe and serviceable condition. The two primary guiding documents that serve as airport Sponsor tools in this endeavor are the
- Airport Emergency Plan and Certification Manual
- Minimum Standards and Airport Rules and Regulations
- Airport Master Plan and "Exhibit A" Property Map
- Airport Layout Plan and Drawing Minimum Standards and Airport Rules and Reguations The FAA's hangar use policy was clarified in 2016 whereby it stated that aircraft hangars should be used to store aircraft, which is an approved aeronautical use. If this policy is violated, the federal government is essentially subsidizing
- A non-aeronautical function on an airport
- Airport hangar maintenance
- An aeronautical use
- Airfield operations A non-aeronautical function on an airport Grant Assurance 39 relates to competitive access for air carriers. If an Airport Sponsor is already served by one air carrier and doesn't have existing facilities to accommodate a 2nd interested air carrier in establishing service, the Airport Sponsor
- Has met its obligation if there are no existing facilities remaining to add another airline
- Should report this to the Secretary of Transportation
- Should work to accommodate the interested air carrier
- can prohibit the new air carrier from operating at the airport Should work to accommodate the interested air carrier
Far Part 43, Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, Rebuilding, and Alteration provides pilots the ability to perform maintenance on any aircraft they own or operate, provided the plane is not used to conduct
- Commercial flight operations
- IFR flight operations
- TTF flights
- Flights with passengers other than the pilot Commercial Flight Operations Airports must generate revenue in order to provide for the safe, secure and efficient transportation system that is expected by the public and the FAA. Revenue can be categorized as all of the following except
- Capital
- Aeronautical
- Non-aeronautical
- non-operating Capital (T/F) Airport tenants do not expect to be charged more than it costs to cover the expenses associated with providing a safe, secure, and efficient airport operation. True Which of the following is not an example of airport operating revenue
- Passenger Facility Charges
- Fuel flowage fees
Not unjustly discriminatory, Reasonable, Fair Fair market fees for use of the airport are required for non-aeronautical use of the airport and are
- Required for non-airfield aeronautical use
- Optional for non-airfield aeronautical use Optional for non-airfield aeronautical use The Airport Sponsor would not need to recieve Fair Market Value (FMV) if it leased property to which of the following
- Corporation
- Limited Liability Company
- Angel Flights
- Sole Propietorship Angel Flights The residual method of rates and charges setting can best be described as
- The airport applies excess non-aeronautical revenue to the airfield costs to reduce air carrier fees.
- A hybrid between a compensatory and rate-based method
- The airport is required to make sure the expenses do not exceed the revenue received
- The airport assumes all liability for airport costs and retains all airport revenue and the user is charged only for the cost of the aeronautical facility The airport applies excess non-aeronautical revenue to the airfield costs to reduce air carrier fees.
(T/F) The FAA will not allow airport improvement program grant funding to be used for Value Engineered projects False There are many IT systems at airports. All the systems below are examples of common IT systems at airports except
- Airfield lighting
- Flight information Displays
- Majority-of-interest (MII)
- Property and Asset Management Systems Majority-of-interest (MII) Most will agree that a year lease, is a life-time lease
- 75
- 99
- 65
- 35 99 A current trend in airport concessions at medium to large-hub airports are the
- Duty-free shops
- Local Mom & Pop Shops
- Self-serve coffee shops
- Shopping center and/or brand-name concessions
- Bank operating loan PFC's, Customer Facility Charges, Bonds Passenger Facility Charges are
- Unlimited ticket taxes set by each airport
- Levied on commercial airline tickets
- Collected by the airport FBO
- Collected by charter operators and remitted to the airport sponsors Levied on commercial airline tickets A common activity on airport is "self-fueling". This process means the aircraft owner
- Uses a fuel from renewable energy source
- Operates an FBO
- Does not have to pay the airport sponsor a fuel flowage fee _ Obtains and uses fuel from the source of his/her preference Obtains and uses fuel from the source of his/her preference (T/F) FAA Airport Improvement Program Funding and Passenger Facility Charges were designed under the concept that the users of the aviation systems, as opposed to all citizens, would pay for the aviation transport systems. True The AIP process is regulated under FAA order 5100-38C otherwise known as the Airport Improvement Program Handbook. Periodically the FAA will issue
to add or revise guidance about the administration of AIP related to the AIP Handbook.
- Advisory Circulars (AC)
- FARs
- Program Guidance Letters (PGL)
- Airport Directives (ADs) Program Guidance Letters (PGL) The Law requires that AIP entitlement funds be apportioned by formula each year. The apportionment, depending on the type of airport, can be based upon all of the following except
- Passenger enplanements
- Aircraft operations
- Fuel flowage
- Amount of cargo Fuel flowage The funds remaining after the entitlement apportionment are known as
- Slush fund
- Discretionary funds
- Set-aside funds
- Reliever funds Discretionary funds
(T/F) Planning is a critical component in maintaining the airport as a valuable community asset. Airport planning is performed at the national, state, regional and local levels of government and industry. True The federal plan for airports provides the federal government perspective on the role of each public-use airport in the national air transportation system. This plan is known as the
- National Master Plan
- National Plan of Integrated Airport System
- Federal Airport Improvement Program
- State Aviation System Plan National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems Which of the following are the primary areas of an airport (check all that apply)
- Roadside
- Landside
- Terminal
- Airside Landside, Terminal, Airside Grant Assurance #29 (Airport Layout Plan) requires that the Airport Sponsor keep the Airport Layout Plan updated at all times. The primary functions of the ALP include all the following except
- Blueprint for airport development
- Necessary for the airport to receive AIP funding
- Public document that serves as a record of aeronautical requirements
- Depicts aviation forecast demands Depicts aviation forecast demands (T/F) A standard Airport Layout Plan is comprised of one or two sketches. False The ALP becomes a legal document after it is approved and signed by the
- Transportation Security Administration
- Airport Sponsor governing body
- Federal Aviation Administration
- State Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration The FAA ADO office can make the following type of changes on the ALP if they are minor in scope.
- Draft watermarked
- Pen-and-Ink
- Penciled in
- Preliminary Pen-and-Ink The FAA provides for which three levels of ALP approval (select all three)
- Unqualified
- Unconditional
