FEDEX FOM TEST Questions and Correct Solutions Rated A+

1. Refueling airports may serve to load and discharge cargo. TRUE/FALSE - FALSE 2. A Provisional Airport: - is an airport approved for use by an air carrier for the purpose of providing scheduled service to a community when the regular airport serving the community is not available. 3. A hurricane has damaged a Gulf coast airport where regularly scheduled service operates. A close by airport is activated and takes over this service for a period of time. The Interim airport would be listed in C070 as a: - Provisional 4. A Domestic air carrier operates within... - the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia with a payload capacity of more than 7,500 lbs. 5. A Flag air carrier: - Operates between any points within the states of Alaska, Hawaii, possession of the U.S., or the 48 contiguous states, and any points outside of these utilizing aircraft with a payload capacity of more than 7,500 pounds. 6. A Supplemental air carrier: - Operates charter or all-cargo operations utilizing aircraft with a payload capacity of more than 7,500 pounds under FAR Part 121 anywhere in the world. 7. Domestic operations are defined as: - any operations within the 50 United States. 8. Scheduled operations between any point within Alaska or Hawaii or any point within the 48 contiguous states or the DC and any point outside these, or between any point outside the U.S. and another point outside the U.S. defines: - A. Flag Operations 9. Any crewmember who observes a nonstandard procedure that has not been explained shall immediately: - Communicate this deviation to the other crewmembers. 10. During times when various priorities of safety, legality, and reliability appear to be in conflict: - It is the responsibility of all crewmembers in general, and the Captain in particular, to ensure that safety remains the primary focus. 11. A separate Flight Safety Report is required for each of the following events: - Aircraft structural damage or tail strike, GPWS/Windshear escape maneuver, Route manual chart deficiency. 12. [7894] Under Domestic/Flag operations, responsibility for preflight planning, delay and dispatch release of a flight is: - Shared by the PIC and the dispatcher 13. Either the PIC or the Aircraft Dispatcher may delay flight departure, but the decision to cancel a flight is the functional responsibility of GOC. TRUE/FALSE - TRUE 14. Ops Specs C-070 classifies airports as Regular, Alternate, Company, and Refueling. TRUE/FALSE - FALSE 15. C-070 airport definitions apply to the following types of operations: - Domestic and Flag 16. In order to plan a flight under Domestic/Flag rules, the destination airport must be authorized for the aircraft type planned. TRUE/FALSE - TRUE 17. When operating under domestic or flag rules, FDX is required to operate into airports listed in Ops Specs paragraph C070 except when emergency authority is invoked. TRUE/FALSE - FALSE (not Company) 18. In the event of an Emergency, the PIC and the aircraft Dispatcher must ensure the intended airport is listed in C070. - An Emergency airport by its nature need not be listed in C070. 19. You are dispatched from KMEM to KFNT under domestic rules (both C070 airports). Enroute to KFNT, your dispatcher wants this flight to be rerouted to KALB (not a C070 airport) due to an aircraft down for MX. Is this reroute legal to perform? - No. While operating under Flag or Domestic rules, except in the case of an emergency, scheduled flights will use only those airports listed in FedEx OpSpecs C070. 20. The sterile cockpit must be observed during critical phases of flight. Critical phases of flight are: - All ground operations involving taxi, takeoff and landing and all other flight operations conducted below 10,000 FT except cruise flight. Critical phase of flight also includes 1000 FT prior to reaching the assigned altitude during climb or descent. 21. When should the Runway Turn off, Taxi and Logo Lights be illuminated to make the aircraft more conspicuous to aircraft on final approach? - When crossing or entering an active runway, after being cleared for takeoff, or when taxiing to line up and wait. 22. FOM iPad procedures require that prior to each flight duty day pilots must: Ensure Jeppesen charts are company manuals are up to date. Ensure the iPad battery us sufficiently charged (70% minimum unless a fully charged external backup is available.) Ensure the iPad is operational. 23. Capts and FO's are required a minimum of ___hrs of Part 121 Line Operating Flt Time (including IOE Flt Time) for consolidation of knowledge & skills within ___days after satisfactory completion of a type rating or initial proficiency check. - 100