AAAE CM MODULE 4 EXAM Questions with Correct Answers
(Grade A+)
Question 1: The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) was charged with these three things:
Answer: "1) Making Safety rules 2) Conducting aircraft investigations 3) economic regulation of airlines"
Question 2: This Act split the CAA into two agencies, the CAA and the CAB.
Answer: Reorganization Act of 1940
Question 3: What phased out CAB economic regulation of airlines?
Answer: "Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) would control the
economics of the airline industry for nearly four decades, approving air routes and regulating airfares, until
finally being dissolved by the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978"
Question 4: Federal Aviation Act of 1958
Answer: "Driven by a the ""jet age,"" safety became a concern. A mid-air collision of 2 aircraft, killing 12
prompted the repeal of the Air Commerce Act. Federal Aviation Act created the Federal Aviation Agency
(FAA), taking over rulemaking from the CAB. Renamed to Federal Aviation Administration in 1966 and
moved from the Commerce Department to the Department of Transportation."
Question 5: What government Act did Part 139 evolve from?
Answer: Airport and Airway Development Act (1970)
Question 6: This establishes Airport Improvement Program (AIP) and establishes the National
Airspace System (NAS), which eventually becomes the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems
(NPIAS). NPIAS is reflected at the local airport level in the Airport Capital Improvement Program.
Answer: Airport and Airways Improvement Act of 1982
Question 7: How many enplanements per year does an airport have to have to be considered as
commercial service?
Answer: 2500 or more
Question 8: This refers to the concept of a 'Next Generation Air Transportation System' or the ongoing
transformation of the NAS, moving from land based navigation to satellite.
Answer: NextGen
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,Question 9: "This Act endorsed the concept of a Next Generation Air Transportation System
(NextGen). NextGen is a multi-faceted series of initiatives designed to make air travel more efficient,
more secure, and safer overall. ""Reauthorization of FAA Funding launches NEXTGEN"""
Answer: Vision 100-Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act of 2003.
Question 10: What are the type types of airport land use?
Answer: Aeronautical and Non-aeronautical
Question 11: Publicly or privately owned airports with scheduled air carrier service with 2500
enplanements per year are categorized as.
Answer: included in the NPIAS
Question 12: An airport that doesn't meet qualifications to be part of the NPIAS may be considered if.
Answer: "Other airports that do not meet the criteria may be included if they are: 1. Part of a State Airport
System Plan; 2. Serving a community more than 30 minutes from the nearest NPIAS airport; 3. Forecast to
have 10 or more based aircraft within the next 5 years; and 4. Currently being considered by an eligible
public sponsor who is willing to undertake ownership and development of the airport. Airports that do not
meet any of the aforementioned criteria may still be included through special justification, such as: 1. A
determination that the benefits of the airport will exceed its development costs; 2. Written documentation
describing isolation; 3. Airports serving the needs of American Indian communities; 4. Airports needed to
support recreation areas; and 5. Airports needed to develop or protect important national resources."
Question 13: What are the NPIAS airports and roughly how many are there?
Answer: Commercial service, GA Relivers, National Guard base of average airport, airport with US Mail
contract; Roughly 3300 (3345)
Question 14: What are the three measurements the FAA uses to gauge airport activity?
Answer: 1) Enplanements 2) Operations 3) Cargo Tonnage "butts, boxes, and bad landings"
Question 15: What is an Commercial Service Airport?
Answer: Publicly owned airport with at least 2500 passengers per year annual boarding that receives
scheduled passenger service
Question 16: This type of airport has more than 100 million pounds of total annual landed weight
Answer: Cargo Airport
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,Question 17: What is a shared airport?
Answer: US Government owned airport co- located w/ a civil airport specified under, and at which, portions
of the movement areas and safety areas are shared by both parties
Question 18: DOD and Civilians share an airfield but is owned by the DOD is called what?
Answer: "Joint Use Airport Tip: ""Owned by the Joint Chiefs"""
Question 19: This Airport Type has scheduled Air Carrier Service with more than 10,000 enplanements
per year.
Answer: Primary Airports
Question 20: This Airport Type is mainly used by GA Aircraft, Scheduled passenger service with
between 2,500-9,999 enplanements per year
Answer: Non- Primary
Question 21: This Airport Type serve at least 1% or more of US passenger enplanements
Answer: Large Hub Airports
Question 22: This Airport Type enplanes .25%-1% of all US enplanements
Answer: Medium Hub Airports
Question 23: This Airport Type has less than .05% but at least more than 10,000 enplanements per
year
Answer: Non-Hub Primary Airports
Question 24: This Airport Type has enplanements between .05% to .25%
Answer: Small Hub Airports
Question 25: What is an GA Airport?
Answer: Public use airport that does not have scheduled air service or has less than 2500 annual
enplanements
Question 26: What type of airport relieves congestion from commercial service airports and provides
improved GA access
Answer: GA Reliever Airport
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, Question 27: What are the four categories of General Aviation (GA) Airports?
Answer: "GA National (near major metropolitan centers) GA Regional (Several large metropolitan centers)
GA Local (backbone of the system) GA Basic (link to other NAS)"
Question 28: This governs private operation of an aircraft
Answer: Part 91
Question 29: "This is the operating requirements for Domestic, Flag and Supplemental Operations.
Also covers Air Carrier Certification."
Answer: Part 121
Question 30: "This is the operating requirements for Commuter and on-demand operations. (i.e., Air
Charter or Air Taxi)"
Answer: Part 135
Question 31: "This covers public charters. (i.e., When an airline leases an aircraft.)"
Answer: Part 380
Question 32: Part 121 operations must operate at airports that are certified as ___.
Answer: Part 139
Question 33: What is VMC?
Answer: "Visual Meteorological Conditions Clouds greater than 1000' AGL and visibility of 3 statute miles.
Tip: I Can See. I Can See. 1000 and 3."
Question 34: What is TERPS?
Answer: Terminal Instrument Procedures
Question 35: What is an Airport Sponsor?
Answer: "Either an Owner or Operator. It is the governing entity of an airport or airport system."
Question 36: Branch of Government that operates like a business.
Answer: Enterprise Fund.
Question 37: Successful airports are characterized by what?
Answer: Effective working relationships between airport policy makers and management
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(Grade A+)
Question 1: The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) was charged with these three things:
Answer: "1) Making Safety rules 2) Conducting aircraft investigations 3) economic regulation of airlines"
Question 2: This Act split the CAA into two agencies, the CAA and the CAB.
Answer: Reorganization Act of 1940
Question 3: What phased out CAB economic regulation of airlines?
Answer: "Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) would control the
economics of the airline industry for nearly four decades, approving air routes and regulating airfares, until
finally being dissolved by the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978"
Question 4: Federal Aviation Act of 1958
Answer: "Driven by a the ""jet age,"" safety became a concern. A mid-air collision of 2 aircraft, killing 12
prompted the repeal of the Air Commerce Act. Federal Aviation Act created the Federal Aviation Agency
(FAA), taking over rulemaking from the CAB. Renamed to Federal Aviation Administration in 1966 and
moved from the Commerce Department to the Department of Transportation."
Question 5: What government Act did Part 139 evolve from?
Answer: Airport and Airway Development Act (1970)
Question 6: This establishes Airport Improvement Program (AIP) and establishes the National
Airspace System (NAS), which eventually becomes the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems
(NPIAS). NPIAS is reflected at the local airport level in the Airport Capital Improvement Program.
Answer: Airport and Airways Improvement Act of 1982
Question 7: How many enplanements per year does an airport have to have to be considered as
commercial service?
Answer: 2500 or more
Question 8: This refers to the concept of a 'Next Generation Air Transportation System' or the ongoing
transformation of the NAS, moving from land based navigation to satellite.
Answer: NextGen
Page 1
,Question 9: "This Act endorsed the concept of a Next Generation Air Transportation System
(NextGen). NextGen is a multi-faceted series of initiatives designed to make air travel more efficient,
more secure, and safer overall. ""Reauthorization of FAA Funding launches NEXTGEN"""
Answer: Vision 100-Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act of 2003.
Question 10: What are the type types of airport land use?
Answer: Aeronautical and Non-aeronautical
Question 11: Publicly or privately owned airports with scheduled air carrier service with 2500
enplanements per year are categorized as.
Answer: included in the NPIAS
Question 12: An airport that doesn't meet qualifications to be part of the NPIAS may be considered if.
Answer: "Other airports that do not meet the criteria may be included if they are: 1. Part of a State Airport
System Plan; 2. Serving a community more than 30 minutes from the nearest NPIAS airport; 3. Forecast to
have 10 or more based aircraft within the next 5 years; and 4. Currently being considered by an eligible
public sponsor who is willing to undertake ownership and development of the airport. Airports that do not
meet any of the aforementioned criteria may still be included through special justification, such as: 1. A
determination that the benefits of the airport will exceed its development costs; 2. Written documentation
describing isolation; 3. Airports serving the needs of American Indian communities; 4. Airports needed to
support recreation areas; and 5. Airports needed to develop or protect important national resources."
Question 13: What are the NPIAS airports and roughly how many are there?
Answer: Commercial service, GA Relivers, National Guard base of average airport, airport with US Mail
contract; Roughly 3300 (3345)
Question 14: What are the three measurements the FAA uses to gauge airport activity?
Answer: 1) Enplanements 2) Operations 3) Cargo Tonnage "butts, boxes, and bad landings"
Question 15: What is an Commercial Service Airport?
Answer: Publicly owned airport with at least 2500 passengers per year annual boarding that receives
scheduled passenger service
Question 16: This type of airport has more than 100 million pounds of total annual landed weight
Answer: Cargo Airport
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,Question 17: What is a shared airport?
Answer: US Government owned airport co- located w/ a civil airport specified under, and at which, portions
of the movement areas and safety areas are shared by both parties
Question 18: DOD and Civilians share an airfield but is owned by the DOD is called what?
Answer: "Joint Use Airport Tip: ""Owned by the Joint Chiefs"""
Question 19: This Airport Type has scheduled Air Carrier Service with more than 10,000 enplanements
per year.
Answer: Primary Airports
Question 20: This Airport Type is mainly used by GA Aircraft, Scheduled passenger service with
between 2,500-9,999 enplanements per year
Answer: Non- Primary
Question 21: This Airport Type serve at least 1% or more of US passenger enplanements
Answer: Large Hub Airports
Question 22: This Airport Type enplanes .25%-1% of all US enplanements
Answer: Medium Hub Airports
Question 23: This Airport Type has less than .05% but at least more than 10,000 enplanements per
year
Answer: Non-Hub Primary Airports
Question 24: This Airport Type has enplanements between .05% to .25%
Answer: Small Hub Airports
Question 25: What is an GA Airport?
Answer: Public use airport that does not have scheduled air service or has less than 2500 annual
enplanements
Question 26: What type of airport relieves congestion from commercial service airports and provides
improved GA access
Answer: GA Reliever Airport
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, Question 27: What are the four categories of General Aviation (GA) Airports?
Answer: "GA National (near major metropolitan centers) GA Regional (Several large metropolitan centers)
GA Local (backbone of the system) GA Basic (link to other NAS)"
Question 28: This governs private operation of an aircraft
Answer: Part 91
Question 29: "This is the operating requirements for Domestic, Flag and Supplemental Operations.
Also covers Air Carrier Certification."
Answer: Part 121
Question 30: "This is the operating requirements for Commuter and on-demand operations. (i.e., Air
Charter or Air Taxi)"
Answer: Part 135
Question 31: "This covers public charters. (i.e., When an airline leases an aircraft.)"
Answer: Part 380
Question 32: Part 121 operations must operate at airports that are certified as ___.
Answer: Part 139
Question 33: What is VMC?
Answer: "Visual Meteorological Conditions Clouds greater than 1000' AGL and visibility of 3 statute miles.
Tip: I Can See. I Can See. 1000 and 3."
Question 34: What is TERPS?
Answer: Terminal Instrument Procedures
Question 35: What is an Airport Sponsor?
Answer: "Either an Owner or Operator. It is the governing entity of an airport or airport system."
Question 36: Branch of Government that operates like a business.
Answer: Enterprise Fund.
Question 37: Successful airports are characterized by what?
Answer: Effective working relationships between airport policy makers and management
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