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ATC Midterm Final Exam
What is the basic support computer system for ATC NEXGEN? - โ ๏ธ โ
Correct Answer ERAM
What does ERAM stand for? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Enroute Automation Modernization
There are three operational parts in each ARTCC. Name them - โ ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Enroute Separation Service, Traffic Management, Center Weather Service Unit
Standard lateral separation in the enroute environment below FL is how many miles - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer 5 miles
What does RVSM stand for? - โ ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum
What is the acronym for the North American Route Program - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer NRP
The standard LATERAL separation in the Enroute environment above FL600 is how many miles? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer 10 miles
The basic minimum altitude separation for IFR aircraft from surface up to and including FL410 is how many feet? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer 1000
The basic minimum altitude separation between IFR aircraft above FL600 is how many feet? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer 5000
The basic minimum altitude separation between aircraft above FL and FL600 is how many feet? - โ ๏ธ โ Correct Answer 2000
A tool for route planning purposes and aircraft participating in the NAS that remain limited to a route of flight that can be conducted in accordance with the communication and navigation equipment in board the aircraft describes what program? - โ๏ธ โ Correct
Answer NRP
are several requirements that must be met on the route they are. You must include a _________ within each ARTCC/FIR boundary. You must avoid_________________ and __________________ airspace by_________ Nautical miles. - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer fix, restricted, prohibited, 3
What year was the Air Commerce Act signed? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer 1926
Who was the first Air Traffic Controller? Where was he hired? What year? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Archie League, St. Louis, 1929
What airport had the first radio equipped control room? - โ๏ธ โ
Correct Answer Cleveland
What were the items called that controllers represent planes with? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Shrimp boats
What year was the Civil Aeronautics Authority (CAA) established? - โ
๏ธ โ Correct Answer 1938
What happened June 30, 1956 that warranted $250 million in ATC upgrades? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Midair collision over the grand canyon. Between United Flight and TWA
1936 the Commerce Department called for three Air Route Air Traffic Controllers in which cities? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Chicago, Cleveland, Newark
What year was the FAA created? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer 1958
Prior to rotating beacons. pilots many times used what to aid them during night time navigation? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Bonfires
What year was the Wright Brothers first flight? - โ๏ธ โ Correct
Answer 1903
What year was the first passenger sea plane service between Tampa and St. Petersburg Florida? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer 1914
Within the FAA is the Air Traffic Organization (ATO.) What is the title of the person running the ATO? - โ ๏ธ โ Correct Answer COO
What are the 6 classes of airspace in the US? - โ๏ธ โ Correct
Answer A, B, C, D, E, G
What are the two parts of the air navigation system? - โ๏ธ โ
Correct Answer Ground Based and Satellite Based
Name two parts of the Ground Based Navigational Aids (NAVIADs) - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer VOR and ILS
There are 4 Routes that aircraft fly IFR. Name two. - โ ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Q Routes Terminal Routes, victor airways, jet airways
Q route uses what instead of a VOR - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer waypoints
Aeronautical charts are a part of the NAS. - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer TRUE
What does GPS provide? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Satellite information to provide aircraft positions
RNAV is used for Standard Instrument Departures (SIDs) - โ๏ธ โ
Correct Answer TRUE
Q-Routes are replacing Jet Routes from what FL through what FL? - โ
๏ธ โ Correct Answer 180 - 450
STAR stands for what? - โ ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Standard Terminal Arrival
RNP - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Required Navigation Performance
Two parts of the ATC Terminal - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Tower and TRACON
What is the primary purpose of the ATC system? - โ ๏ธ โ Correct Answer To provide a safe, orderly, and expeditious flow of traffic
An Air Traffic Controllers first priority of duty consists of two parts. What are they? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Safety alerts and Separation of Aircraft
What are the normal dimensions of class C airspace - โ๏ธ โ Correct
Answer 4,000ft high, 10 miles wide
What are the two requirements a pilot must have to enter class C airspace? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Two-way communication, Mode C transponder
When you call the tower for clearance into class C airspace and they do not answer your transmission you can enter class C airspace. - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer FALSE
As a pilot you must participate in TRSA services - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer FALSE
What are the normal dimensions of class D airspace? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer 2,500ft high and 5 statue miles wide
What must you do to fly in Class B, C, and D airspace under these conditions?
Current weather conditions are reported as Ceilings 800 OVC and visibility 2 miles with fog. There is a control tower on the field. You want to operate VFR to do touch and gos... - โ๏ธ โ Correct
Answer Request special VFR or have SVFR clearance
What are the weather minimums for SVFR flight in Class B, C, or D airspace. List both visibility and what you must maintain clear of. - โ
๏ธ โ Correct Answer 1 mile visibility and clear of clouds
What does LAHSO stand for? - โ ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Land and hold short operations
What does ASDE stand for? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Airport Surface Detection Equipment
What is an abbreviation for Line up and wait? - โ๏ธ โ Correct
Answer LUAW
What is the vertical separation controllers use in a TRACON environment between IFR aircraft? - โ ๏ธ โ Correct
Answer 1,000ft
There are three separation minima used in air traffic control. What are they? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Longitudinal, vertical, and lateral
There are 7 services offered in a TRACON environment? - โ ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Sequencing, vectoring, safety alerts, visual separation, traffic advisories, wake turbulence, standard separation of IFR aircraft
The TRACON has a flight plan on an aircraft and the aircraft is the next depart. Departure has the aircraft visible on the radar within 1 mile of the departure runway. The controller can tell the aircraft radar contact. - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer TRUE
There are several ways for a TRACON controller to radar identify a IFR or VFR aircraft with Mode C Transponder. Name three. - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer IDENT, Squawk standby and then squawk normal, Have pilot change codes and the controller observe the change
You are entering TRACON airspace. The controller issues you an altimeter setting. What else will the controller have you do to establish Radar Contact? - โ ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Issue you a discrete or non discrete code and have you squawk IDENT
You are flying VFR. You are talking to TRACON. The controller tells you Radar service terminated, sqwuak VFR. When you call the next TRACON facility the controller can tell you RADAR CONTACT upon initial contact. - โ ๏ธ โ Correct Answer FALSE
You are departing Lewis University airport on an IFR clearance. You contact Chicago TRACON upon departure, but they don't tell you Radar Contact. There are three things which are your responsibility as a pilot in this situation. - โ ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Climb to last
If your vector to the final is less than 2 miles from the approach gate, what is your intercept angle? - โ ๏ธ โ Correct Answer 20 degrees
If your vector is 2 miles or more from the point in the approach gate what is the intercept angle - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer 30 degrees
What are the two types of surveillance approaches? - โ ๏ธ โ
Correct Answer Gyro and no-gyro
What is issued by ATC to aircraft under their control that places an aircraft in unsafe proximity to terrain, obstructions, or other aircraft. - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Safety alert
At a small airport with a control tower, who determines the landing order of aircraft to the landing runway? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer Tower
How many ARTCC's are in the CONUS? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer 21
ARTCC airspace extends normally from 8,000ft to 15,000ft up to what altitude? - โ๏ธ โ Correct Answer FL
