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Air Traffic Management Certification Quiz

1. The air traffic management system was developed to do what?
A. maintain safe separation of aircraft
B. keep foreign airplanes out of out airspace
C. keep air traffic moving in an organized and efficient manner
D. both A and C

2. The skies over the United Sates are divided into what sections?
A. 21 TRACONs
B. 21 Center airspaces
C. 21 stations
D. 21 control towers

3.An airport's control tower directs air traffic during which phases of flight?
A. preflight, takeoff, landing
B. preflight, taxi, takeoff
C. push back, takeoff, departure
D. takeoff, departure, landing

4. The air traffic control system includes which components?
A. Command Center and Flight Service Station
B. Towers, Centers, TRACONs
C. US Department of Transportation
D. all of the above
E. A and B only

5. The Air Traffic Control System Command Center is responsible for what?
A. providing US weather data to all parts of the system
B. directs en route air traffic
C. looks for situations that will create flow problems
D. responds to flow problems with a management plan
E. C and D

6. The TRACON is responsible for which phases of flight?
A. taxi, takeoff, departure
B. en route, approach, descent
C. descent and landing
D. departure, descent, approach

7. A Center is responsible for which phase of flight?
A. en route
B. descent
C. landing
D. approach

8. The Flight Service Station is responsible for what?
A. giving weather data to airport control towers
B. providing private pilots with flight planning information
C. approving flight plans for commercial airlines
D. planning new airports

9. The hub-and-spoke system of airline operations refers to what?
A. how flat tires on airplanes are changed
B. taxiways and runways
C. small feeder airports
D. a commercial airline's major center of operation

10. Before an airplane is allowed to takeoff the pilot must have what?
A. all luggage stowed
B. flight plan clearance
C. passengers
D. none of the above

11. All air traffic controllers must have what important skill(s)?
A. visualization
B. concentration
C. communication
D. all of the above

12. NASA and the FAA use the research facility Future Flight Central to study what?
A. airport operations
B. airport layout
C. pilot flight training
D. A and B

13. Air traffic controllers monitor a flight using what tools?
A. radar scope
B. flight tracking strip
C. radio contact
D. all of the above

14. Put each system's components in order of largest to smallest.
A. Center, TRACON, control tower
B. TRACON, Center, control tower
C. control tower, Center, TRACON
D. control tower, TRACON, Center

15. Trajectory prediction software uses what kind of information?
A. aircraft performance and radar data
B. weather and wind data
C. flight plans
D. all of the above

16. Wake Vortices are caused by what?
A. bad weather
B. airflow off wingtips
C. stream of air from a jet engine
D. tornado clouds

17. The maximum number of operations which can safely fly within the air traffic system is known as what?
A. flight phase
B. air traffic management
C. gridlock
D. capacity

18. Differential GPS (DGPS):
A. is not as accurate as GPS.
B. makes use of signals from GPS satellites and the International Space Station.
C. makes use of signals from GPS satellites and a ground station.
D. A and B

19. The greatest cause of air traffic delays is:
A. not enough pilots
B. mechanical problems
C. too many airplanes
D. inclement weather

20. A pilot requesting permission to land at an airport would contact:
A. a center controller
B. a TRACON controller
C. a tower controller
D. a ground controller

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