AAAE CM Exam Questions with correct Answers

Grant Assurance #23 Exclusive Rights - Answer- Airport cannot grant an aeronautical tenant the exclusive right to conduct a particular commercial service. - unless it would be unreasonably costly, burdensome, or impractical for more than 1 FBO, or if allowing more than 1 FBO would require the reduction in space leased to an existing tenant - or if the airport operator can grant itself an exclusive right to provide an aeronautical service Air Commerce Act of 1926 - Answer- Provided federal funds to aid in the advancement of air transportation and navigation; among the projects it supported was the construction of airports Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) - Answer- Created Safety rules, established ATC, Licenses, Airways. Prohibited the use of federal funds to build or improve airports Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 - Answer- allowed air carriers to set their own prices for tickets and cargo. Dismantled the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB). Created Hub and Spoke System Federal Aid to Airports Program (FAAP) - Answer- Provided Federal Aid to Airports and establishes the National Airport Plan (NAP) Federal Aviation Act of 1958 - Answer- Created FAA Works Progress Administration (WPA) - Answer- Provided 50% of funding for airport improvements. Established long term practice of federal government funding airport improvement National Airport Plan (NAP) - Answer- Listed recommendations for airport construction, maintenance, and operations. Eventually becomes National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) Airport and Airway Development Act of 1970 - Answer- Created the Airport Development Aid Program (ADAP) and the Planning Grant Program (PGP), expanded the list of eligible projects, created the Part 139 Certification of Airports, created the Aviation Trust Fund. Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982 - Answer- Created the Airport Improvement Program where 75-90% of a project is covered by federal money. Reorganized the National Airport Plan as the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS), establishing airport categories of commercial and GA. Part 91 - Answer- General Operating and Flight Rules Part 119 - Answer- Fly for hire Part 121 - Answer- Operating Requirements: Domestic, Flag, and Supplemental Operations. Can only operate out of Part 139 Airports Part 135 - Answer- Operating Requirements: Commuter and On-Demand Operations Part 125 - Answer- Certification and Operations of Large Airplanes Part 380 - Answer- Public Charter Airport Privatization - Answer- Transfer of federal obligation and responsibility. Break from Grant Assurances. FAA Orders - Answer- These provide guidance and instruction to FAA personnel on airport compliance and safety issues Part 13 - Answer- Investigative and Enforcement Procedures. Informal Part 16 - Answer- Formal Complaint - Rules of practice for federally assisted airport enforcement proceedings Tucker Act - Answer- Waives immunity over claims arising out of contracts with the federal government. Federal Tort Claims Act - Answer- Allows public to sue government for improper acts of its employees Grant Assurance 29 - Airport Layout Plan - Answer- Requires airport operator to delineate boundaries of all facilities and identify plans for future airport development on the ALP Grant Assurance #19 Operations and Maintenance - Answer- Requires the airport to be operated at all times in a safe and serviceable condition Minimum Standards - Answer- The minimum requirements a business which provides aeronautical services must meet to ensure adequate level of safe and efficient services to the public Duty of Care - Answer- the obligation people owe each other not to cause any unreasonable harm or risk of harm Grant Assurance #22 Economic Nondiscrimination - Answer- Airport must be available for public use on reasonable terms without unjust discrimination of all types, kinds, and classes of aeronautical activities. Grant Assurance # 39 Competitive Access - Answer- Requires large and medium hub airports to report to the Secretary of Transportation any denial of a request of an air carrier access to the airport. Airports must attempt to accommodate new air carrier service Grant Assurance #5 Preserving Rights and Powers - Answer- Prevents an airport from taking actions that may deprive it of its rights and powers to direct and control airport development, and comply with grant assurances Grant Assurance #25 Airport Revenues - Answer- Restricts the use of airport revenue generated by the airport and local taxes on aviation fuel, to be expended for capital or operating costs of the airport, local airport system, or other facilities owned or operated by the airport sponsor which directly and substantially relate to the actual air transportation of passengers or the property or noise mitigation efforts. Airport Revenue Diversion - Answer- Using federal funds for non-airport uses Primary airport - Answer- 10,000 Enplanements annually Commercial Service Airport - Answer- Over 2,500 Enplanements Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) - Answer- Must be established program in contracts over $100k Sealed Bid - Answer- A formal written bid opened in public at a designated time and place. Goes to the lowest responsible bidder Hangar Keepers Insurance - Answer- Protection for damage to aircraft Premises Liability - Answer- Protection for injury to persons and property Product Liability Insurance - Answer- insurance that protects a firm against claims that its product caused bodily injury or property damage to the user Residual Rate - Answer- Airlines cover additional expenses of the airport. "What's left over" Compensatory Rate - Answer- Sponsor assumes all liability for airport costs and retains all revenue Location in the ALP of when and how specific parcels of airport property was acquired? - Answer- Exhibit A Definition of "Useful" related to the approval of the ALP - Answer- Airport operator making the best use of land Metropolitan Airport System Plan - Answer- Recommends the general location and characteristics of new airports and the nature of development and expansion for existing ones within a region ALP maintenance - Answer- 1. Should be reviewed every 2-7 years, depending on the size of the airport 2. An update may be necessary when the existing projects in the ALP or facilities at the airport cannot accommodate the forecasted aero needs, or the existing facilities do not meet airport design standards 3. Numerous "pen & ink" changes Airport Data Record - Answer- Airport Master Record used to update the Airport Facility Directory (AFD) now called the chart supplements Master Plan Planning open house - Answer- preferred method for community briefings Demographics - Answer- Relates to the public's ability to use air travel Forecast Methods - Answer- Regression, Trend, Market Share, Smoothing Regression Analysis - Answer- Ties aviation demand to enplanements population and income levels Trend Analysis - Answer- Based from historical patterns of aviation activity Market Share Analysis - Answer- Assumes local forecasts represent a percentage of national, regional and state forecasts Airport Capital Improvement Plan (ACIP) - Answer- Internal FAA document. Primary planning tool for identifying and prioritizing critical airport development and associated capital needs for the NAS Movement Area - Answer- The runways, taxiways, and other areas of an airport/heliport which are utilized for taxiing/hover taxiing, air taxiing, takeoff, and landing of aircraft, exclusive of loading ramps and parking areas. At those airports/heliports with a tower, specific approval for entry onto the movement area must be obtained from ATC. Substantial Use - Answer- 500 annual itinerant flight ops