Week 1

Question 1

Service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through controlled airspace and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airspace

Answer 1

Air Traffic Control

Question 2

What are the three primary purposes of Air Traffic Control?

Answer 2

• Prevent collisions
• Organize and expedite the flow of air traffic
• Provide information and other support for pilots

Question 3

To prevent collisions, they enforce traffic separation rules to ensure each aircraft to have enough space around them

Answer 3

Air Traffic Control

Question 4

This provides additional safety by warning pilots when other aircraft get too close

Answer 4

Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS)

Question 5

True or False. ATC may issue instructions that pilots are required to obey, or advisories that pilots may, at their discretion and disregard

Answer 5

True

Question 6

True or False. ATC is the final authority for the safe operation of the aircraft and in case of emergency, PIC may deviate from ATC instructions to the extent required to maintain safe operation of their aircraft

Answer 6

False. The pilot in command is the final authority

Question 7

These are used when there is no tower or uncontrolled aerodrome

Answer 7

Advisories

Question 8

True or False. ATC operations are conducted either in the English language or the language used by the station on the ground

Answer 8

True

Question 9

This was the first airport in the world to introduce air traffic control

Answer 9

Croydon Airport

Question 10

This airport published a NOTAM in which it was stated that all the pilots had to obtain a sequence number for departure, as well as authorization from the tower for taking off

Answer 10

Croydon Airport

Question 11

How was the authorization for taking off given at croydon airport?

Answer 11

Waiving a red flag from the observation tower

Question 12

They also pioneer in establishing an aeronautical radio navigation system, ground-air communications, the use of the Q codes (Alt Setting), and also a control zone in which it was required that the pilots had authorization from the controller before entering it

Answer 12

Croydon Airport

Question 13

Solid lines before entering the runway where you need to stop and request clearance from tower

Answer 13

Control Zones

Question 14

They developed the first standard procedures to depart, more oriented to appease the neighbors that complained about the noise than for safety reasons

Answer 14

Croydon Airport

Question 15

The year when the city hired the first US air traffic controller

Answer 15

1929

Question 16

He is the first US air traffic controller

Answer 16

Archie W. League

Question 17

What was League’s control tower?

Answer 17

Wheelbarrow

Question 18

Opened the first airport traffic control tower, regulating arrivals, departures and surface movement of aircraft at a specific airport.

Answer 18

Cleveland Airport (1930)

Question 19

In 1930, Cleveland airport opened this and nearly all airlines were equipping aircraft for radio navigation

Answer 19

1st radio equipped control room

Question 20

In 1932, the Commerce Department had installed how many radio beacons across the country?

Answer 20

83

Question 21

These helped pilots through poor visibility and 2-way radio

Answer 21

Radio Marker beacons

Question 22

In 1935, this was opened which directs the movement of aircraft between departure and destination in Newark, NJ

Answer 22

First air route traffic control center (ARTCC)

Question 23

In 1936, what followed suit of ARTCC?

Answer 23

Chicago and Cleveland

Question 24

What did early route controllers use to represent planes?

Answer 24

Boat shaped weights called “shrimp boats”

Question 25

The years when more and more technical applications were introduced as standard ATC equipment, like the communication boxes, headsets, teletype, radio locators and the paper flight progress strip boards

Answer 25

1937-1938

Question 26

They pioneered new routes, and new technology allowed aircraft to go faster, higher and farther. It also pushed for them to hire female air traffic controllers.

Answer 26

WW2

Question 27

What was WW2's largest impact?

Answer 27

Adoption of RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging)

Question 28

These were created after adoption of radar in the 1950s to monitor and control the busy airspace around larger airports

Answer 28

Approach/departure control

Question 29

Began at ______, Boeing 707 jet flew at speeds up to ______ mph and carried up to _____ passengers

Answer 29

1958, 550 mph, 181 passengers

Question 30

Years when passenger travel grew by more than 1000 percent an unprecedented increase

Answer 30

1958 to 1977

Question 31

In 1960, what did the FAA require which send a radar beacon or "squawk" to identify the aircraft

Answer 31

Transponders

Question 32

The controllers would write information from each radar blip on what?

Answer 32

Plastic "shrimp boats"

Question 33

In 1956, what was introduced where controllers could at last see flights in 3 dimensions

Answer 33

computers