PSA AIRLINES FLIGHT ATTENDANT
COMPREHENSIVE ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET
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✔✔Originating City - ✔✔Point of Origin; City from which you started
✔✔PAX - ✔✔Passenger
✔✔Pairing - ✔✔Originating city to arrival city indicated on each crewmember's schedule
(i.e. DAY-CLT)
✔✔PIC - ✔✔Pilot in Command; The PIC (Captain) is responsible for the operation and
safety of an aircraft during flight
✔✔Potable Water - ✔✔Water that has been purified and certified by local authorities as
safe for drinking
✔✔Pressurization - ✔✔A mechanical process that keeps the atmospheric conditions on
board as near the density on the ground as possible
✔✔PSU - ✔✔Passenger Service Unit
✔✔QIK - ✔✔Software computer system which contains all information pertinent to all
areas of passenger service and flight operations
✔✔Ramp - ✔✔The ground area outside of the airport terminal where airplanes park
✔✔REDO - ✔✔Reposition Flight
✔✔RON - ✔✔Remain overnight; pertains to crewmembers or aircraft
✔✔SIDA - ✔✔Security Identification Display Area. Areas of airport in which security
identification badges must be visible on each person
, ✔✔Sterile Cockpit - ✔✔The critical phases of flight during which crewmembers are
specifically prohibited from engaging in any activity that is not related to the safe
operation of the flight
✔✔Taxi - ✔✔Aircraft movement on the ground
✔✔Tail - ✔✔The AFT-most section of the airplane
✔✔Take Off - ✔✔The process in which an aircraft leaves the ground
✔✔Trip - ✔✔A series of flights assigned to a crew member trips are usually one to four
days in length and begin and end at a Flight Attendants Dominicile
✔✔Through Flight - ✔✔A flight that travels from a point of origin to a destination with
one or more enroute stops on the same aircraft; passengers may or may not remain
aboard the aircraft at the enroute stops
✔✔ A/C - ✔✔Aircraft
✔✔A/CL - ✔✔Aircraft Left (left hand-side of the A/C facing flight deck)
✔✔A/CR - ✔✔Aircraft Right ( right hand side of aircraft facing the flight deck)
✔✔Airborne - ✔✔AC has no physical contact w ground and is holding itself in the air.
✔✔Air Cargo - ✔✔Includes air freight and airmail
✔✔Air Maintenance Log - ✔✔A record book kept in flight deck containing a complete
history of the AC including flight time reports inspections repairs and alterations to the
plane.
✔✔Airline Certificate - ✔✔License rating which meets the specific requirements from
the FAA issued to operators of scheduled supplemental or authorized carriers.
✔✔Airspeed - ✔✔Speed at which airplane is traveling thru the air may be more or less
than speed in relation to ground.
✔✔Air traffic - ✔✔A/C operating in the air or on an airport surfaces excluding loading
ramps and parking areas
✔✔ATC - ✔✔Air Traffic Control; A division of the FAA that controls airways, navigational
aids, and established traffic flying on established airways
COMPREHENSIVE ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET
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✔✔Originating City - ✔✔Point of Origin; City from which you started
✔✔PAX - ✔✔Passenger
✔✔Pairing - ✔✔Originating city to arrival city indicated on each crewmember's schedule
(i.e. DAY-CLT)
✔✔PIC - ✔✔Pilot in Command; The PIC (Captain) is responsible for the operation and
safety of an aircraft during flight
✔✔Potable Water - ✔✔Water that has been purified and certified by local authorities as
safe for drinking
✔✔Pressurization - ✔✔A mechanical process that keeps the atmospheric conditions on
board as near the density on the ground as possible
✔✔PSU - ✔✔Passenger Service Unit
✔✔QIK - ✔✔Software computer system which contains all information pertinent to all
areas of passenger service and flight operations
✔✔Ramp - ✔✔The ground area outside of the airport terminal where airplanes park
✔✔REDO - ✔✔Reposition Flight
✔✔RON - ✔✔Remain overnight; pertains to crewmembers or aircraft
✔✔SIDA - ✔✔Security Identification Display Area. Areas of airport in which security
identification badges must be visible on each person
, ✔✔Sterile Cockpit - ✔✔The critical phases of flight during which crewmembers are
specifically prohibited from engaging in any activity that is not related to the safe
operation of the flight
✔✔Taxi - ✔✔Aircraft movement on the ground
✔✔Tail - ✔✔The AFT-most section of the airplane
✔✔Take Off - ✔✔The process in which an aircraft leaves the ground
✔✔Trip - ✔✔A series of flights assigned to a crew member trips are usually one to four
days in length and begin and end at a Flight Attendants Dominicile
✔✔Through Flight - ✔✔A flight that travels from a point of origin to a destination with
one or more enroute stops on the same aircraft; passengers may or may not remain
aboard the aircraft at the enroute stops
✔✔ A/C - ✔✔Aircraft
✔✔A/CL - ✔✔Aircraft Left (left hand-side of the A/C facing flight deck)
✔✔A/CR - ✔✔Aircraft Right ( right hand side of aircraft facing the flight deck)
✔✔Airborne - ✔✔AC has no physical contact w ground and is holding itself in the air.
✔✔Air Cargo - ✔✔Includes air freight and airmail
✔✔Air Maintenance Log - ✔✔A record book kept in flight deck containing a complete
history of the AC including flight time reports inspections repairs and alterations to the
plane.
✔✔Airline Certificate - ✔✔License rating which meets the specific requirements from
the FAA issued to operators of scheduled supplemental or authorized carriers.
✔✔Airspeed - ✔✔Speed at which airplane is traveling thru the air may be more or less
than speed in relation to ground.
✔✔Air traffic - ✔✔A/C operating in the air or on an airport surfaces excluding loading
ramps and parking areas
✔✔ATC - ✔✔Air Traffic Control; A division of the FAA that controls airways, navigational
aids, and established traffic flying on established airways
