AAAE CM MODULE 4 EXAMINATION TEST Questions with
Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: The FAA recommends these types of meetings for Airport Master Plan updates.
Answer: Open House
Question 2: What is the focus of Airport Master Plan (AMP) Prudent Planning Criteria?
Answer: Focus on minimizing minimize unavoidable environmental impact and to avoid delays in project
design and construction
Question 3: What are the five factors that affect Demand Forecasting?
Answer: "1) Economic Characteristics 2) Demographic Characteristics 3) Geographical Attributes 4)
Aviation Related Factors, Other Factors "
Question 4: What are the four types of Forecast Methods?
Answer: "1) Regression Analysis - Ties aviation demand to enplanements, population and income levels 2)
Trend Analysis and Extrapolation - Historical pattern of aviation activity to project future trends 3) Market
Shares Analysis -top-down relationship among national, regional, state, and local forecasts, where local
forecasts represent a market share or percentage of national forecasts. 4) Smoothing - historical data focused
more on the recent trends and conditions of the airport"
Question 5: List 8 key activities of the Facilities Implementation Plan.
Answer: "1. Sponsor-specific project approval activities 2. Airline and other tenant approvals including
lease modifications 3. Project funding activities (FAA grants, PFC, and long-term debt financing) 4.
Environmental processing activities 5. Land acquisition activities 6. Sponsor-specific project
implementation, process activities associated with the design and build of the projects 7. Agency
coordination activities 8. Public coordination activities"
Question 6: What portion of the AMP shows how the airport will fund recommended projects?
Answer: Financial Feasibility Analysis
Question 7: Additional pavement in the form of fillets are designed to maintain the ___ ___ ___ ___
(___).
Answer: Taxiway Edge Safety Margin (TESM).
Question 8: What factors determine the substantial use of the Airport's Design Aircraft?
Answer: "Largest scheduled commercial service aircraft 500 or more annual itinerant operations If AO and
FAA foresee future vision of change of fleet mixture"
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,Question 9: What are the 4 runway configurations?
Answer:
1. "(1) single
2. (2) open-V
3. (3) parallel
4. (4) intersecting"
Question 10: What are the three reasons a runway may have a displaced threshold?
Answer: "(1)an object obstructs the airspace needed for landing aircraft, (2) for environmental
considerations such as noise abatement, or (3) if necessary to provide standard runway safety area
dimensions or runway obstacle free zone lengths."
Question 11: Nose gear steering angle is no more than ___ degrees, the generally accepted value to
prevent excessive tire scrubbing.
Answer: 50 degrees
Question 12: When must an airport issue a change order to a contract?
Answer: When the change exceeds an increase or decrease of 25% of the estimated cost.
Question 13: Basic operational and services data of the airport are maintained where?
Answer: Airport Master Record 5010
Question 14: The principal imaginary surfaces defined in FAR Part 77 are:
Answer:
1. "1) Primary Surfaces
2. Transitional Surfaces
3. Approach Surfaces
4. Horizontal Surfaces
5. Conical Surfaces"
Question 15: The Airport Terminal should provide what?
Answer: Safe, efficient, comfortable transfer of passengers and baggage
Question 16: Airport terminal facilities are planned on the basis of activity forecasts. The annual
forecast normally used are__________, _________, and __________
Answer: "Passenger enplanements passenger originations and aircraft movements (by aircraft size)"
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, Question 17: How do terminal planners forecast activities?
Answer: "1) Current airport Master Plan, 2) FAA published terminal area forecasts, 3) Forecasts developed
by Airlines for America (A4A) 4) those forecasts developed by the individual airlines serving the airport."
Question 18: How is hourly passenger volume calculated?
Answer: The peak hourly volume is usually three to five percent of the annual passenger volume.
Question 19: These airports have a high percentage of originating passengers and low percentage of
originating flights
Answer: Through Airports
Question 20: What airport type has significant enplaned passengers transferring to other flights, that
account for more than 50% of passenger traffic?
Answer: Transfer Airport
Question 21: Percentage goal of terminal concessions space
Answer: 15%-25%
Question 22: How much rentable space should be planned for additional infrastructure
Answer: 10%-15%
Question 23: How much space is rented by airlines?
Answer: 35% - 45%
Question 24: What % of terminal space is considered rentable for public use?
Answer: 25%
Question 25: Passenger space assumptions are also influenced by _____ and _____
Answer: culture and geography
Question 26: FAA estimates approximately what percentage of terminal space is rentable?
Answer: 55%
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Correct Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1: The FAA recommends these types of meetings for Airport Master Plan updates.
Answer: Open House
Question 2: What is the focus of Airport Master Plan (AMP) Prudent Planning Criteria?
Answer: Focus on minimizing minimize unavoidable environmental impact and to avoid delays in project
design and construction
Question 3: What are the five factors that affect Demand Forecasting?
Answer: "1) Economic Characteristics 2) Demographic Characteristics 3) Geographical Attributes 4)
Aviation Related Factors, Other Factors "
Question 4: What are the four types of Forecast Methods?
Answer: "1) Regression Analysis - Ties aviation demand to enplanements, population and income levels 2)
Trend Analysis and Extrapolation - Historical pattern of aviation activity to project future trends 3) Market
Shares Analysis -top-down relationship among national, regional, state, and local forecasts, where local
forecasts represent a market share or percentage of national forecasts. 4) Smoothing - historical data focused
more on the recent trends and conditions of the airport"
Question 5: List 8 key activities of the Facilities Implementation Plan.
Answer: "1. Sponsor-specific project approval activities 2. Airline and other tenant approvals including
lease modifications 3. Project funding activities (FAA grants, PFC, and long-term debt financing) 4.
Environmental processing activities 5. Land acquisition activities 6. Sponsor-specific project
implementation, process activities associated with the design and build of the projects 7. Agency
coordination activities 8. Public coordination activities"
Question 6: What portion of the AMP shows how the airport will fund recommended projects?
Answer: Financial Feasibility Analysis
Question 7: Additional pavement in the form of fillets are designed to maintain the ___ ___ ___ ___
(___).
Answer: Taxiway Edge Safety Margin (TESM).
Question 8: What factors determine the substantial use of the Airport's Design Aircraft?
Answer: "Largest scheduled commercial service aircraft 500 or more annual itinerant operations If AO and
FAA foresee future vision of change of fleet mixture"
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,Question 9: What are the 4 runway configurations?
Answer:
1. "(1) single
2. (2) open-V
3. (3) parallel
4. (4) intersecting"
Question 10: What are the three reasons a runway may have a displaced threshold?
Answer: "(1)an object obstructs the airspace needed for landing aircraft, (2) for environmental
considerations such as noise abatement, or (3) if necessary to provide standard runway safety area
dimensions or runway obstacle free zone lengths."
Question 11: Nose gear steering angle is no more than ___ degrees, the generally accepted value to
prevent excessive tire scrubbing.
Answer: 50 degrees
Question 12: When must an airport issue a change order to a contract?
Answer: When the change exceeds an increase or decrease of 25% of the estimated cost.
Question 13: Basic operational and services data of the airport are maintained where?
Answer: Airport Master Record 5010
Question 14: The principal imaginary surfaces defined in FAR Part 77 are:
Answer:
1. "1) Primary Surfaces
2. Transitional Surfaces
3. Approach Surfaces
4. Horizontal Surfaces
5. Conical Surfaces"
Question 15: The Airport Terminal should provide what?
Answer: Safe, efficient, comfortable transfer of passengers and baggage
Question 16: Airport terminal facilities are planned on the basis of activity forecasts. The annual
forecast normally used are__________, _________, and __________
Answer: "Passenger enplanements passenger originations and aircraft movements (by aircraft size)"
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, Question 17: How do terminal planners forecast activities?
Answer: "1) Current airport Master Plan, 2) FAA published terminal area forecasts, 3) Forecasts developed
by Airlines for America (A4A) 4) those forecasts developed by the individual airlines serving the airport."
Question 18: How is hourly passenger volume calculated?
Answer: The peak hourly volume is usually three to five percent of the annual passenger volume.
Question 19: These airports have a high percentage of originating passengers and low percentage of
originating flights
Answer: Through Airports
Question 20: What airport type has significant enplaned passengers transferring to other flights, that
account for more than 50% of passenger traffic?
Answer: Transfer Airport
Question 21: Percentage goal of terminal concessions space
Answer: 15%-25%
Question 22: How much rentable space should be planned for additional infrastructure
Answer: 10%-15%
Question 23: How much space is rented by airlines?
Answer: 35% - 45%
Question 24: What % of terminal space is considered rentable for public use?
Answer: 25%
Question 25: Passenger space assumptions are also influenced by _____ and _____
Answer: culture and geography
Question 26: FAA estimates approximately what percentage of terminal space is rentable?
Answer: 55%
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