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AMO EXAM COMPREHENSIVE
EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Airport - Answer✔✔-is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.
Airport as an system - Answer✔✔-the airport forms an essential part of the air transport system because
it is the physical site at which a modal transfer is made from the air mode to the land modes vice versa.
Airport, Airline, and User - Answer✔✔-Three major components of the air transport system:
Airport Operator - Answer✔✔-an individual, organization or enterprise responsible for administration
and management of the airport infastructure.
International airport - Answer✔✔-is an airport with customs and border control facilities enabling
passengers to travel between countries.
Regional Airport - Answer✔✔-is an airport serving traffic within a relatively small or lightly polluted
geographical area
Local Airport - Answer✔✔-Airports providing third-level services (e.g., scheduled passengers services
operated by aircraft with fewer than 25 seats) catering privately for local needs concentrating on general
aviation with some feeder services and some charter flights. A local airport benefits a community by
increasing convenience and helping the local economy.
Emergency Support Services - Answer✔✔-Convenience and quicker response time are especially
important in emergencies.
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Tourism - Answer✔✔-Flying directly into town, with no additional travel required, increases convenience
for prospect tourists.
Local Business Operations - Answer✔✔-companies can use charter service/or enjoy the convenience of
parking their own aircraft at the airport.
Unique Community Services - Answer✔✔-Most local airports are home to a Fixed Based Operators that
offers training to the local community.
General Aviation - Answer✔✔-Civilian airports that do not serve schedule passenger service are typically
this
General Aviation saves lives - Answer✔✔-Every day, general aviation transports blood supplies, vital
transplant organs, and other time-critical, lifesaving elements.
Airspace, Airfield, Landside, Airport Ground Access Plans - Answer✔✔-Four Airport Components
Airspace - Answer✔✔-Area for aircraft maneuver (after takeoff, before landing)
Airfield=Aerodromes - Answer✔✔-Area for aircraft take-off & landing (equipped with required
installations & equipments, NavAids, Lighting)
Landside - Answer✔✔-Area to accommodate the groundbased vehicles, passengers & cargo movements.
is accessible to the general public, including those not traveling. It includes check-in and ticketing desks
and is not considered a ''secure'' area in the same sense as the airside area.
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