ACE Operations Module 3 Definitions
Practice Exam Fully Solved.
14 CFR Part 77, Objects Affecting Navigable Airspace - Answer This regulation establishes
standards for determining obstructions to air navigation. In addition to specifying imaginary
surfaces to be protected, the regulation also requires each person proposing any kind of
construction or alteration described in Sec. 77.13(a) to give adequate notice to the
Administrator. It specifies the locations and dimensions of the construction or alteration for
which notice is required and prescribes the form and manner of the notice.
Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) - Answer A publication of the FAA that is designed to
provide the aviation community with basic flight information and ATC procedures for use in the
National Airspace System (NAS) of the United States.
Airport Facility Directory (AFD) - Answer see Chart Supplements.
Airport movement area safety system (AMASS) - Answer A conflict alert mechanism that
works in conjunction with ASDE and ARTS to predict and help prevent runway incursions.
Airport Surface Detection Equipment (ASDE) - Answer System designed to enhance safety on
the airport surface during all-weather conditions, by allowing ATC to track and control aircraft
and vehicles operating on the airport surfaces. Newer generation -3 and-X are ground-mapping
radar systems designed to locate and display the locations of designated ground-based aircraft
and vehicles.
Airport Surface Traffic Automation (ASTA) - Answer Composed of five elements: a runway
status light system, a surveillance data link, aural and visual warnings, data tags, and a traffic
planner. Its purpose is to increase aviation safety by reducing runway incursions and surface
collisions in the movement area.
Airport Surveillance Radar (ASR) - Answer A type of surveillance radar in use by ATC, used
primarily for identifying and separating aircraft traffic.
Air Route Surveillance Radar (ARSR) - Answer Radar system utilized by ATC primarily for
identifying and separating aircraft traffic.
Air traffic control radar beacon (ATCRB) - Answer A type of surveillance radar in use by ATC.
Alert areas - Answer Depicted on aeronautical charts to inform nonparticipating pilots of areas
that may contain a high volume of pilot training or an unusual type of aerial activity. Pilots
,should remain alert when flying in these areas. Pilots of participating aircraft, as well as pilots
transiting the area, are equally responsible for collision avoidance.
Approach control - Answer An ATC position responsible for ensuring the safe transition of the
aircraft into the terminal area.
Approach surface - Answer A Part 77 imaginary surface that is longitudinally centered on the
extended runway centerline and extending outward and upward from each end of the primary
surface. An approach surface is applied to each end of each runway based upon the type of
approach available or planned for that runway end.
Area navigation (RNAV) - Answer A method of navigation that permits aircraft operations on
any desired flight path.
Automated Radar Terminal System (ARTS) - Answer An ATC radar system that has the
capability to predict flight paths, determine conflicts with other aircraft, receive altitude
information, and transmit/receive other important aircraft identification information.
Automatic direction finder (ADF) - Answer An aircraft instrument that receives NDB signals and
acts as a homing device.
Base leg - Answer Part of the traffic pattern in which a flight path is flown at right angles to the
landing runway off its approach end and extending from the downwind leg to the intersection
of the extended runway centerline.
Category (CAT) I - Answer A precision instrument approach and landing with a decision height
not lower than 200 feet above touchdown zone elevation and with either a visibility not less
than 2,600 ft. or a runway visual range not less than 1,800 ft.
Category (CAT) II - Answer A precision instrument approach and landing with a decision height
lower than 200 feet above touchdown zone elevation but not lower than 100 feet, and a runway
visual range not less than 980 ft. for aircraft approach category A, B, C and not less than 1,150 ft.
for aircraft approach category D.
Category (CAT) III - Answer A precision instrument approach allowing for approach and landing
in the lowest visibility conditions. This category of approach is subdivided into three sections:
Category III A - Answer A precision instrument approach and landing with: A decision height
lower than 100 ft. above touchdown zone elevation, or no decision height (alert height); and a
runway visual range not less than 660 ft.
, Category III B - Answer A precision instrument approach and landing with: A decision height
lower than 50 feet above touchdown zone elevation, or no decision height (alert height); and a
runway visual range less than 660 ft. but not less than 150 ft. Autopilot is used until taxi speed.
Category III C - Answer A precision instrument approach and landing with no decision height
and no runway visual range limitations.
Civil Air Patrol (CAP) - Answer A Congressionally chartered, federally supported, non-profit
corporation that serves as the official civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
Construction Safety and Phasing Plan (CSPP) - Answer Along with the contractor's Safety Plan
Compliance Document (SPCD), is the primary tool to ensure safety compliance when
coordinating construction activities with airport operations.
Chart Supplements - Answer An FAA digital source of data on public and joint use airports,
seaplane bases, heliports, VFR airport sketches, NAVAIDs, communications data, weather data,
airspace, special notices, and operational procedures.
Clearance delivery - Answer Coordinates and processes initial departure, route of flight, and
final altitude information to a pilot.
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) - Answer
Commonly known as "Superfund," this law was enacted by Congress on December 11, 1980.
This law created a tax on the chemical and petroleum industries and provided broad Federal
authority to respond directly to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that
may endanger public health or the environment. Additionally, the law requires anyone who
releases into the environment a reportable quantity of a hazardous substance or a material
identified as a marine pollutant, including oil when water may be affected, to immediately
notify the National Response Center (NRC).
Conical surface - Answer A Part 77 imaginary surface that extends outward and upward from
the periphery of the horizontal surface at a slope of 20 to 1 for a horizontal distance of 4,000
feet.
Contact approach - Answer A procedure that results from an instrument approach when the
visibility is greater than one mile. In such cases, a pilot is cleared by ATC to make an instrument
approach to land, and the pilot then uses visual reference to complete the approach when
conditions allow.
Control - Answer Procedures have been established that coordinate the activities of the many
participants so that the emergency is effectively resolved without duplication of limited
resources.
Practice Exam Fully Solved.
14 CFR Part 77, Objects Affecting Navigable Airspace - Answer This regulation establishes
standards for determining obstructions to air navigation. In addition to specifying imaginary
surfaces to be protected, the regulation also requires each person proposing any kind of
construction or alteration described in Sec. 77.13(a) to give adequate notice to the
Administrator. It specifies the locations and dimensions of the construction or alteration for
which notice is required and prescribes the form and manner of the notice.
Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM) - Answer A publication of the FAA that is designed to
provide the aviation community with basic flight information and ATC procedures for use in the
National Airspace System (NAS) of the United States.
Airport Facility Directory (AFD) - Answer see Chart Supplements.
Airport movement area safety system (AMASS) - Answer A conflict alert mechanism that
works in conjunction with ASDE and ARTS to predict and help prevent runway incursions.
Airport Surface Detection Equipment (ASDE) - Answer System designed to enhance safety on
the airport surface during all-weather conditions, by allowing ATC to track and control aircraft
and vehicles operating on the airport surfaces. Newer generation -3 and-X are ground-mapping
radar systems designed to locate and display the locations of designated ground-based aircraft
and vehicles.
Airport Surface Traffic Automation (ASTA) - Answer Composed of five elements: a runway
status light system, a surveillance data link, aural and visual warnings, data tags, and a traffic
planner. Its purpose is to increase aviation safety by reducing runway incursions and surface
collisions in the movement area.
Airport Surveillance Radar (ASR) - Answer A type of surveillance radar in use by ATC, used
primarily for identifying and separating aircraft traffic.
Air Route Surveillance Radar (ARSR) - Answer Radar system utilized by ATC primarily for
identifying and separating aircraft traffic.
Air traffic control radar beacon (ATCRB) - Answer A type of surveillance radar in use by ATC.
Alert areas - Answer Depicted on aeronautical charts to inform nonparticipating pilots of areas
that may contain a high volume of pilot training or an unusual type of aerial activity. Pilots
,should remain alert when flying in these areas. Pilots of participating aircraft, as well as pilots
transiting the area, are equally responsible for collision avoidance.
Approach control - Answer An ATC position responsible for ensuring the safe transition of the
aircraft into the terminal area.
Approach surface - Answer A Part 77 imaginary surface that is longitudinally centered on the
extended runway centerline and extending outward and upward from each end of the primary
surface. An approach surface is applied to each end of each runway based upon the type of
approach available or planned for that runway end.
Area navigation (RNAV) - Answer A method of navigation that permits aircraft operations on
any desired flight path.
Automated Radar Terminal System (ARTS) - Answer An ATC radar system that has the
capability to predict flight paths, determine conflicts with other aircraft, receive altitude
information, and transmit/receive other important aircraft identification information.
Automatic direction finder (ADF) - Answer An aircraft instrument that receives NDB signals and
acts as a homing device.
Base leg - Answer Part of the traffic pattern in which a flight path is flown at right angles to the
landing runway off its approach end and extending from the downwind leg to the intersection
of the extended runway centerline.
Category (CAT) I - Answer A precision instrument approach and landing with a decision height
not lower than 200 feet above touchdown zone elevation and with either a visibility not less
than 2,600 ft. or a runway visual range not less than 1,800 ft.
Category (CAT) II - Answer A precision instrument approach and landing with a decision height
lower than 200 feet above touchdown zone elevation but not lower than 100 feet, and a runway
visual range not less than 980 ft. for aircraft approach category A, B, C and not less than 1,150 ft.
for aircraft approach category D.
Category (CAT) III - Answer A precision instrument approach allowing for approach and landing
in the lowest visibility conditions. This category of approach is subdivided into three sections:
Category III A - Answer A precision instrument approach and landing with: A decision height
lower than 100 ft. above touchdown zone elevation, or no decision height (alert height); and a
runway visual range not less than 660 ft.
, Category III B - Answer A precision instrument approach and landing with: A decision height
lower than 50 feet above touchdown zone elevation, or no decision height (alert height); and a
runway visual range less than 660 ft. but not less than 150 ft. Autopilot is used until taxi speed.
Category III C - Answer A precision instrument approach and landing with no decision height
and no runway visual range limitations.
Civil Air Patrol (CAP) - Answer A Congressionally chartered, federally supported, non-profit
corporation that serves as the official civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force.
Construction Safety and Phasing Plan (CSPP) - Answer Along with the contractor's Safety Plan
Compliance Document (SPCD), is the primary tool to ensure safety compliance when
coordinating construction activities with airport operations.
Chart Supplements - Answer An FAA digital source of data on public and joint use airports,
seaplane bases, heliports, VFR airport sketches, NAVAIDs, communications data, weather data,
airspace, special notices, and operational procedures.
Clearance delivery - Answer Coordinates and processes initial departure, route of flight, and
final altitude information to a pilot.
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) - Answer
Commonly known as "Superfund," this law was enacted by Congress on December 11, 1980.
This law created a tax on the chemical and petroleum industries and provided broad Federal
authority to respond directly to releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances that
may endanger public health or the environment. Additionally, the law requires anyone who
releases into the environment a reportable quantity of a hazardous substance or a material
identified as a marine pollutant, including oil when water may be affected, to immediately
notify the National Response Center (NRC).
Conical surface - Answer A Part 77 imaginary surface that extends outward and upward from
the periphery of the horizontal surface at a slope of 20 to 1 for a horizontal distance of 4,000
feet.
Contact approach - Answer A procedure that results from an instrument approach when the
visibility is greater than one mile. In such cases, a pilot is cleared by ATC to make an instrument
approach to land, and the pilot then uses visual reference to complete the approach when
conditions allow.
Control - Answer Procedures have been established that coordinate the activities of the many
participants so that the emergency is effectively resolved without duplication of limited
resources.
