Airport Operations Flashcards

1
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Categories of airports

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Commercial service
Cargo service
Reliever airports
General aviation airport

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Types of airports

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Civil
Military/Federal
Private
Towered
Non Towered

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Nontowered airport communication

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Not required
Transmit intentions on CTAF (common traffic advisory frequency)
=> UNICOM, MULTICOM, FSS or tower frequency

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Enter nontowered airport

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At pattern altitude, announce intensions
Join downwind pattern midfield at 45 degrees
If upwind join at higher altitude, 1500-2000 AGL
Possible to join crosswind midfield

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NOTAMs

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Taxi way, runway closures, construction, communications, nav aids,…

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6
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Displaced vs relocated runway threshold

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Displaced, available for takeoff, not landing
Relocated, offline area only for taxi

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Runway safety area

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Surface surrounding Runway
Graded, mowed, for emergency operations

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LAHSO

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Land and hold short of intersecting runway
Accept or decline
If comply, know landing distance, reason, signs/markings, not for students, not at night, not on wet runway

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Airport signs

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Mandatory instruction signs
Location signs
Direction signs
Destination signs
Information signs
Runway distance remaining

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Airport beacon

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Flashing white green, civilian
Flashing white yellow, water
Flashing white yellow green, heliport
2 quick flashing white green, military

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VASI

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Visual approach slope indicator
2 bar and 3 bar, white and red
Or 4 dots next to each other = PAPI, precision approach path indicator
Or tri color system
Or pulsation VASI

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Runway lighting

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REIL Runway end identifier lights
Runway edge lights
In runway lighting

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In runway lighting

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Runway centerline lighting, white, last 2000ft red/white, last 1000ft red
Touchdone zone lights
Taxi way centerline lead-on and lead-off
LAHSO lights

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Taxi way lights

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Omnidirectional
Clearance bar lights
Runway guard lights
Stop bar lights

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Runway status lights

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RWSL, red
REL runway entrance lights
THL takeoff hold lights

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Wind direction indicators

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Wind cone
Wind sick
Tetrahedron
Wind tee

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Traffic patterns

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Landing strip indicators with traffic pattern indicator
Typically enter at midpoint of downwind, 45 degrees, 1000ft

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Radio equipment

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VHF, line of sight, 118.0 - 136.975 MHz
720 or 760 channels in 0.025 spacing
Seven European countries use 8.33kHz channels

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ATC Primary radar

A

Range, direction, elevation
Degrades over distance, updates 4.7s

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ATCRBS

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Secondary surveillance radar
Interrogator, transponder, radarscope
ADS-B same info but more accurate, faster, plus speed, direction

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ADS-B

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Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast
Satellite based, more accurate, faster updates
Increase safety, traffic
Includes Traffic Information Services Broadcast
TIS-B
Flight Information Services Broadcast FIS-B
978MHz = Universal Access Transceiver
1090MHz = associated with Mode A, C, S transponder, extended squitter message

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Radar Traffic Advisories

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For instrument flight plan and VFR
Safety alerts, traffic advisory, limited vector ING
Terminal radar services area TRSA

23
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Wake turbulence vortex strength

A

Function of weight, speed, wings, wake decay
Changes with configuration, flaps
Strongest when heavy, clean, and slow, in terminal area
En route, strong due to low density, speed
Remain wingspan apart, sink at several 100ft/min

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Vortex Avoidance

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Same runway: Stay at or above large plane approach path, land beyond touch point
Parallel, less than 2500ft, same
Cross above flight path on crossing runway
Land (Take off) prior to departing planes rotating point
En route avoid below behind large aircraft

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Collision Avoidance

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Before takeoff, climbs, descents, straight and level, traffic patterns, at VOR, training

26
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Pilot Deviations

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Violating Federal Aviation Regulation, clearance
Only to avoid collision, respond to traffic alert
Ground Deviations during taxi, take off, landing

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Runway incursion Avoidance

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Read back instructions
Review airport layout, signs
Review NOTAMs
Progressive taxi instructions
Check traffic, turn on lights
Clear active runway quickly

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ATC Line up and wait

A

Enter runway, no takeoff clearance
Issued while other plane is landing??

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EMAS

A

Engineering materials arrest systems, from crushable concrete
Runway safety area RSA