American Airlines Dispatch Study Guide Questions With Correct Answers

American Airlines Dispatch Study Guide
Questions With Correct Answers

Heavy Aircraft - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Greater than 300,000 lbs.
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Large Aircraft - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Greater than 12,500 lbs.
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Definition of night - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The time between the end
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of evening civil twilight and the beginning of morning civil twilight.
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Definition of a Ceiling - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The height (AGL) of the
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lowest cloud base or phenomenon aloft considered broken or overcast
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clouds. Also vertical visibility into a surface based total obscuration.
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Operation Control - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The exercise in authority to
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initiate, conduct and terminate a flight. Shared between dispatch and
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PIC.


NORDO - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-No radio
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EFC - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Expect further clearance
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FAR Part 65 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Aircraft Dispatch Certification
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,FAR Part 91 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-General operating and flight rules
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FAR 117 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Flight and duty limitations and rest
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requirements for flight crew members. | | | |




FAR Part 119 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Certification for air carriers and
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commercial operators |




119.49 Contents of Operations Specification - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Authorized airports, authorized aircraft, authorized operations, airport
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limitations for routes and areas of operations, authorized approaches,
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ETOPS, International operations, any item that the administrator
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determines necessary. |




FAR 139 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Airport certification
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FAR Part 121 - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Operating Requirements:
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Domestic, Flag, and Supplemental Operations.
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Subpart T: Flight Operations
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Subpart U: Dispatching and Flight Release Rules
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, 121.645 Flag Fuel Requirements - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Burn-Fuel to
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fly to the airport which departed
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Contingency-Fuel to fly 10% of the ETE between departure airport and | | | | | | | | | | |



the airport which dispatched.
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Alternate Burn-Fuel to fly to the most distant alternate.
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Reserve-Fuel to fly for 30 mins holding speed at 1500ft above the
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alternate or destination ISA conditions.
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Legal to Depart - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Reported weather at the
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departure airport is at or above takeoff minimums
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121.617 Takeoff Alternate Required - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Reported
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weather at the departure airport is greater than or equal to landing
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mins at the departure airport. Based on 60 mins still air, one engine inop
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ISA conditions
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121.613 Dispatch IFR - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Indicated weather at the
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destination at ETA is at or above landing minimums
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121.619 No Alternate Required (1,2,3 Rule) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Indicated weather at the destination airport +/- 1 hour ceiling at or
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above 2000ft and visibility at or above 3sm
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