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Name the components of a primary radar system - ✔✔Transmitter, antenna, receiver, and radar display The AFSS position that records meteorological data by documenting it accurately and promptly is the _______ position - ✔✔Weather Observer Which document prescribes air traffic control procedures and phraseology used by the FAA? - ✔✔Order 7110. The AFSS position that provides local airport advisories is the ________ position. - ✔✔Inflight What is the maximum speed (unless authorized) for an aircraft below 10,000 feet MSL? - ✔✔250 knots Indicated Air Speed (IAS What type of polarization would be used to reduce areas of heavy precipitation from the radar display? - ✔✔Circular Polarization
. Disseminates IFR and VFR flight plans, initiates search and rescue, disseminates NOTAMS, performs Customs notification - ✔✔Flight Data/ NOTAM /Coordinator
Makes recordings of weather and flight information, such as Hazardous Inflight Weather Advisory Service (HIWAS) - ✔✔Broadcast Briefs pilots on weather, NOTAMs, and restrictions along proposed route; applies VFR not recommended (VNR) procedures - ✔✔Preflight Documents meteorological data and maintains basic weather watch - ✔✔Flight Advisory Service Provides en route aircraft with timely and pertinent weather data. Uses radio call sign "Flight Watch" - ✔✔Inflight Displays only objects in motion. - ✔✔MTI What separation is being applied by spacing aircraft at the same altitude and requiring operation on different routes or in different geographical locations? - ✔✔Lateral Requires no equipment in the aircraft. - ✔✔Primary Radar From what facility would you receive landing clearance? - ✔✔ATCT Focuses, broadcasts, and collects reflected radio energy. - ✔✔Antenna
Appearance of clutter on scope caused by moisture in the air bending the radar signal. - ✔✔Anomalous Propagation Designators may have as many as ________ characters, but no less than ________. - ✔✔4: An aircraft designator must consist of letters only. - ✔✔false The first character in an aircraft designation must be a/an - ✔✔letter If you had two aircraft at FL310, would you be correct in assigning one of the aircraft FL320 in order to achieve vertical separation - ✔✔Yes, if both aircraft were RVSM equipped; otherwise, you would need 2,000 feet vertical separation. Occurs when warm air is trapped on top of cooler air. - ✔✔Temperature Inversion For a terminal facility to provide visual separation between two arriving IFR aircraft, the following condition must exist: - ✔✔Both aircraft must be visually observed by the tower. Clutter on radar display caused by dropping large amounts of chaff. - ✔✔Passive Radar Jamming Processes reflected radio energy. - ✔✔receiver
The minimum en route radar separation required for two aircraft between FL180 and FL600 is ______ miles. - ✔✔ 5 What separation is being applied with the spacing of aircraft at the same altitude by a minimum distance expressed in units of time or miles? - ✔✔longitudinal Which type of separation is being applied by clearing departing aircraft to fly specified headings which diverge by at least 45 degrees? - ✔✔lateral Which types of separation will normally provide aircraft with the most expeditious handling? - ✔✔radar The position that is in direct communication with aircraft is - ✔✔Radar Position The different types of separation are: - ✔✔Vertical Lateral Longitudinal Radar Visual Runway
Where is the transponder located? - ✔✔in the aircraft What are the five major components of the secondary radar system? - ✔✔Interrogator, transponder, antenna, decoder, and radar display Where is the FAA Administrator's office located? - ✔✔Washington, D.C. The FAA Air Traffic Organization is managed by a(n) _______. - ✔✔Chief Operating Officer Which document lists the location identifiers authorized by the FAA, Department of the Navy, and Transport Canada? - ✔✔Order 7350. What type of separation is being applied by using 10 miles between aircraft above FL600? - ✔✔Radar What separation is being applied by using 5000 feet between aircraft above FL600? - ✔✔Vertical Flight Data - ✔✔Compiles statistical data, processes and forwards flight plan information, reports weather information Clearance Delivery - ✔✔Issues clearances and ensures accuracy of pilot readback.
Ground Control - ✔✔Initiates control instructions, has responsibility control of aircraft and vehicles on taxiways and runways that are not active, ensures separation, one of the two "Tower Positions" Local Control - ✔✔Initiates control instructions, has responsibility for control of active runways, ensures separation, one of the two "Tower Positions" Tower Coordinator - ✔✔Performs interfacility/intrafacility coordination, advises the Tower Positions of actions required to accomplish objectives SLIDE 50 What type of separation is being applied when a pilot sees another aircraft, and is instructed by the Tower controller to follow that aircraft? - ✔✔Visual Which type of separation in the en route environment, other than visual, would allow you to place two aircraft with the least distance between aircraft? - ✔✔Vertical separation - 1,000 feet
PATCO strike? Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) strike - ✔✔AUGUST 3, 1981 The primary purpose of the ATC system is to - ✔✔prevent a collision between aircraft operating in the system and to organize and expedite the flow of traffic, and to provide support for National Security and Homeland Defense. Air traffic control service to aircraft is provided on a "first come, first served" basis as circumstances permit, except the following: - ✔✔Aircraft in distress have the right-of-way over all other traffic Civilian air ambulance flights Priority is also provided to military air evacuation flights and scheduled air carrier/air taxi flights, when verbally requested. Search and Rescue (SAR) aircraft performing a SAR mission Presidential aircraft Flight Check aircraft Special military and civilian operations Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) - ✔✔The term "IFR" is also used to indicate weather conditions that are less than minimum VFR requirements. SIX BASIC POSITIONS IN AFSS - ✔✔Weather Observer Flight Data/NOTAM Coordinator
Broadcast Preflight Inflight En Route Flight Advisory Service (EFAS) The AFSS position that initiates required search and rescue situations is the_______ position. - ✔✔Flight Data/NOTAM/Coordinator AIRPORT TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWER (ATCT) - ✔✔Provides ATC service to aircraft operating in th vicinity of the airport or on the movement area TERMINAL RADAR APPROACH CONTROL (TRACON) - ✔✔Provides radar service to approaching, departing, and some en route aircraft TRACONs - ✔✔provide radar approach control and departure control service to aircraft operating in the vicinity of one or more civil and/or military airports in a terminal area. may be operated by FAA, USAF, U.S. Army, USN, USMC, or jointly by FAA and a military service responsible for providing radar air traffic control services to arriving and departing aircraft, they may serve one or more airfields, and control is exercised primarily by direct pilot and controller communications.
Which document provides direction and guidance for operating and managing air traffic facilities and offices? - ✔✔Order 7350. Provides the aviation community with basic flight information and ATC procedures for use in the United States National Airspace System (NAS). - ✔✔AERONAUTICAL INFORMATION MANUAL (AIM) Responsibility for approval of a Letter of Agreement rests with the - ✔✔Regional Service Area Office. Who may be delegated the authority to approve a Letter of Agreement? - ✔✔ATREPs, RADLOs, and air traffic managers Which of the following would NOT require the development of a Letter of Agreement? - ✔✔Intrafacility coordination purpose of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) - ✔✔is to supplement other orders and directives and to provide guidelines for intrafacility use. One purpose of Standard Operating Procedures is to - ✔✔specify jurisdictional boundaries for each position/sector.
Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) - ✔✔provides information not known sufficiently in advance to publicize by other means concerning the establishment, condition, or change in any component (facility, service, or procedure), or hazard in the National Airspace System, the timely knowledge of which is essential to personnel concerned with flight operations. Consists of information that requires wide dissemination via telecommunication and pertains to en route navigational aids, civil public-use airports listed in the Airport Facility Directory (AFD), facilities, services, and procedures. - ✔✔NOTAM D The facility responsible for accepting, classifying, and disseminating Notices to Airmen is - ✔✔FSS Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs - ✔✔Establish and provide rules and regulations for operation of aircraft within the United States. Are issued by authority of the FAA Administrator. Give pilots directions that promote the safety of flight. Prescribe the action a pilot must take under various circumstances (Example: Compliance with air traffic clearances). Apply to all aircraft operating in the United States, including foreign aircraft.
When may a pilot deviate from an ATC clearance? - ✔✔In an emergency Authorization by air traffic control for the purpose of preventing collisions between known aircraft, and for an aircraft to proceed under specified traffic conditions within controlled airspace, is called an ATC - ✔✔clearance Control of all air traffic within designated airspace by air traffic control is called _______ control. - ✔✔positive Who is directly responsible and the final authority for operation of an aircraft? - ✔✔Pilot in command When may the pilot in command deviate from FAR, Part 91? - ✔✔An emergency requiring immediate action What is the right-of-way rule for an aircraft in distress? - ✔✔Right of way over all other traffic FARs govern aircraft operating in the airspace within how many miles of the coast? - ✔✔ 12 nautical miles
FARs govern aircraft operating on the waters within how many miles of the coast? - ✔✔ 3 nautical miles Class A airspace - ✔✔18,000 MSL - FL Two-way communications are required 4096 Mode C transponder required No VFR flights allowed ALL flights MUST operate under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) Includes jet routes Class B Airspace - ✔✔is generally that airspace from the surface to 10,000 feet MSL surrounding the Class C Airspace - ✔✔is generally that airspace from surface to 4,000 feet above the airport elevation surrounding those airports that have: An operational control tower Service provided by a Radar Approach Control A certain number of IFR operations Jet routes are included in what type of airspace - ✔✔Class A
Begins at the surface of the Earth and extends upward to a defined altitude Established for security or other reasons associated with the national welfare Identified by letter "P" plus number Depicted on aeronautical charts RESTRICTED AREA - ✔✔... The authority and responsibility for flying in Class G Airspace belong to the - ✔✔pilot The Special Use Airspace that overlies an aerial gunnery range located over land is called a ______ Area. - ✔✔Restricted What type of Special Use Airspace is found over international waters? - ✔✔Warning Area Prohibited Area vertical airspace begins at - ✔✔the surface of the Earth. In what type of airspace would a high volume of pilot training take place? - ✔✔Alert Area
An aircraft capable of 300,000 pounds of takeoff weight, but which currently only has a takeoff weight of 225,000 pounds, would fall into what weight class? - ✔✔Heavy Wake Turbulence - ✔✔is a phenomenon resulting from the passage of an aircraft through the atmosphere. The term includes vortices, thrust stream turbulence, jet blast, jet wash, propeller wash, and rotor wash both on the ground and in the air. PRESIDENTIAL AIRCRAFT IDENTIFICATION - ✔✔President-"AIR FORCE ONE" "ARMY ONE"-- "EXECUTIVE ONE" President's Family--"EXECUTIVE ONE FOXTROT"--"EXECUTIVE ONE FOXTROT" Vice President "AIR FORCE TWO"-"EXECUTIVE TWO" Vice President's Family "EXECUTIVE TWO FOXTROT" "EXECUTIVE TWO FOXTROT" The greatest wake turbulence is associated with which aircraft configuration below? - ✔✔heavy, clean, slow
