FAA ATC Basics Block 1
FL450, FL490, FL530, FL570 - answer If an aircraft is flying a magnetic course of 070
over FL 410, what altitudes can it take?
1967 - answer What year was the Federal Aviation Administration established?
1926 - answer The FAA has been around in some degree since what year?
Provide the safest most efficient aerospace in the world - answer The FAA's mission is
too _______
The office of the deputy assistant administrator for regions and center operations (ARC)
- answer Who leads the 9 regional offices?
ATO - answer What organization does the COO lead?
Three Service Areas which are :Eastern, Central, Western – answer ATO ATC facilities
are categorized into ______
Service Areas
Safety and Technical Training
Contract Towers
ATCSCC - answerAJT is responsible for all of the following except:
FAA Administrator-ATO COO-Service Areas-Facilities-You - answerWhat is the line of
operational authority/communications?
Flight rules
Flight plans
Weather Conditions - answerVFR/IFR describe what?
B. Air Traffic Services (AJT) - answerThe safe, secure, and efficient management for
the national airspace system is the responsibility of
A. Administrator
B. Air Traffic Services (AJT)
C. Director
man-made objects on the ground - answerUnder IFR, ATC maintains separation from
other aircraft, terrain, and ______
IFR, VFR - answer______ is used to indicate weather conditions that are less than
minimum ____ requirements.
,Prevent a collision between aircraft operating in the system, and provide a safe orderly
and expeditious flow of traffic, and to provide support for national security and
Homeland defense - answerThe primary purpose of the ATC system is to:
The Federal Government - answerWho establishes separation standards?
Separating aircraft and issuing safety alerts - answerWhat is first duty priority of Air
Traffic?
When an operational advantage will be gained - answerWhen would non-radar
separation be used in preference to radar separation?
Distress
Medevac
Presidential aircraft
Search and Rescue (SAR)
Special Military and civilian operation
Flight Check Aircraft
IFR aircraft over SVFR
Diverted Flights - answerList the operational priority order of aircraft
Priority over:
Search and Rescue (SAR)
Special Military and civilian operation
Flight Check Aircraft
IFR aircraft over SVFR
Diverted Flights
Priority under:
Distress
Medevac - answerName 2 aircraft that the President's Family would have priority over
and 2 aircraft that they would not
True - answerTrue or false: additional services are not optional for the controller?
When verbally requested - answerWhen is priority provided to military Evac and
scheduled air carriers/air taxi flights?
True - answerTrue or False:
Automation procedures are used in preference to non automation procedures when
workload, communications, and equipment capabilities permit.
Designated - answerIn an air traffic control facility, window supervisory personnel are
available, one controller who is fully as a CIC (Controller in Charge) must be ______
, Yes, though they have no direct control authority over either IFR or VFR traffic -
answerAre flight service stations air traffic facilities?
Provide Pilot briefings and receiving and processing IFR and VFR flight plans -
answerThe primary responsibility of FSS are?
Flight Data/NOTAM/Coordinator - answerIn a flight service station, who processes law
enforcement messages?
Broadcast position of FSS - answerWho compiles, evaluates, and records the HIWAS?
FSS Inflight Position - answerWho gives the airport advisories for Alaska (What
position)?
FSS Inflight Position - answerWho relays ATC clearances in FSS?
True - answerT or F : Only Local Control and Ground Control have the distinction of
being called Tower Positions
Clearance Delivery - answerWho is normally the first controller a pilot talks to when
departing an airport?
The Tower Coordinator - answerWho assumes responsibility for managing traffic flow of
an airport?
Tower Associate - answerWhich position of an ATCT assists the Tower positions by
performing coordination and helps to ensure separation by maintaining awareness of
tower traffic?
The safe and efficient operation of that tower cab - answerThe ATCT team as a whole
has a responsibility for:
Safe and efficient operation of that facility/sector - answerThe TRACON Team as a
whole has a responsibility for:
Sectors of airspace - answerTracon's are divided into______
Radar Position - answerIn a TRACON, who has the responsibility of managing the
overall sector operations, including aircraft separation and traffic flows?
Areas and Sectors - answerCenters are divided into:
Traffic flows - answerTMU's monitor and balance ______ within their area of
responsibility
FL450, FL490, FL530, FL570 - answer If an aircraft is flying a magnetic course of 070
over FL 410, what altitudes can it take?
1967 - answer What year was the Federal Aviation Administration established?
1926 - answer The FAA has been around in some degree since what year?
Provide the safest most efficient aerospace in the world - answer The FAA's mission is
too _______
The office of the deputy assistant administrator for regions and center operations (ARC)
- answer Who leads the 9 regional offices?
ATO - answer What organization does the COO lead?
Three Service Areas which are :Eastern, Central, Western – answer ATO ATC facilities
are categorized into ______
Service Areas
Safety and Technical Training
Contract Towers
ATCSCC - answerAJT is responsible for all of the following except:
FAA Administrator-ATO COO-Service Areas-Facilities-You - answerWhat is the line of
operational authority/communications?
Flight rules
Flight plans
Weather Conditions - answerVFR/IFR describe what?
B. Air Traffic Services (AJT) - answerThe safe, secure, and efficient management for
the national airspace system is the responsibility of
A. Administrator
B. Air Traffic Services (AJT)
C. Director
man-made objects on the ground - answerUnder IFR, ATC maintains separation from
other aircraft, terrain, and ______
IFR, VFR - answer______ is used to indicate weather conditions that are less than
minimum ____ requirements.
,Prevent a collision between aircraft operating in the system, and provide a safe orderly
and expeditious flow of traffic, and to provide support for national security and
Homeland defense - answerThe primary purpose of the ATC system is to:
The Federal Government - answerWho establishes separation standards?
Separating aircraft and issuing safety alerts - answerWhat is first duty priority of Air
Traffic?
When an operational advantage will be gained - answerWhen would non-radar
separation be used in preference to radar separation?
Distress
Medevac
Presidential aircraft
Search and Rescue (SAR)
Special Military and civilian operation
Flight Check Aircraft
IFR aircraft over SVFR
Diverted Flights - answerList the operational priority order of aircraft
Priority over:
Search and Rescue (SAR)
Special Military and civilian operation
Flight Check Aircraft
IFR aircraft over SVFR
Diverted Flights
Priority under:
Distress
Medevac - answerName 2 aircraft that the President's Family would have priority over
and 2 aircraft that they would not
True - answerTrue or false: additional services are not optional for the controller?
When verbally requested - answerWhen is priority provided to military Evac and
scheduled air carriers/air taxi flights?
True - answerTrue or False:
Automation procedures are used in preference to non automation procedures when
workload, communications, and equipment capabilities permit.
Designated - answerIn an air traffic control facility, window supervisory personnel are
available, one controller who is fully as a CIC (Controller in Charge) must be ______
, Yes, though they have no direct control authority over either IFR or VFR traffic -
answerAre flight service stations air traffic facilities?
Provide Pilot briefings and receiving and processing IFR and VFR flight plans -
answerThe primary responsibility of FSS are?
Flight Data/NOTAM/Coordinator - answerIn a flight service station, who processes law
enforcement messages?
Broadcast position of FSS - answerWho compiles, evaluates, and records the HIWAS?
FSS Inflight Position - answerWho gives the airport advisories for Alaska (What
position)?
FSS Inflight Position - answerWho relays ATC clearances in FSS?
True - answerT or F : Only Local Control and Ground Control have the distinction of
being called Tower Positions
Clearance Delivery - answerWho is normally the first controller a pilot talks to when
departing an airport?
The Tower Coordinator - answerWho assumes responsibility for managing traffic flow of
an airport?
Tower Associate - answerWhich position of an ATCT assists the Tower positions by
performing coordination and helps to ensure separation by maintaining awareness of
tower traffic?
The safe and efficient operation of that tower cab - answerThe ATCT team as a whole
has a responsibility for:
Safe and efficient operation of that facility/sector - answerThe TRACON Team as a
whole has a responsibility for:
Sectors of airspace - answerTracon's are divided into______
Radar Position - answerIn a TRACON, who has the responsibility of managing the
overall sector operations, including aircraft separation and traffic flows?
Areas and Sectors - answerCenters are divided into:
Traffic flows - answerTMU's monitor and balance ______ within their area of
responsibility
