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What kind of commercial airport receives a greater allocation of federal funding?

Primary

Large hub airports serve at least what percent of total US passengers a year?

1%

Medium hub airports serve at least what percent of total US passengers a year?

0.25%

Small hub airports serve at least what percent of total US passengers a year?

<p>0.05%</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are public-use airports that do not have scheduled service or have fewer than 2,500 annual passenger enplanements?

<p>General Aviation</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the largest subcategory of airports in the United States?

<p>General aviation</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of GA airport is located in metropolitan areas near major business centers and support flying throughout the nation and the world?

<p>GA National Airports</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of GA airports are located in metropolitan areas in 49 states and serve relatively large populations and support both interstate and intrastate flying?

<p>GA Regional Airports</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of GA airport accolades flight training, emergency services, and charter passenger service?

<p>GA Local Airports</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of airport often have just one runway, helipad, or seaplane lane?

<p>GA Basic Airports</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is an airport owned by the Department of Defense, at which both military and civilian aircraft make shared use of the airfield?

<p>Joint-use airport</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a U.S. government-owned airport that is co-located with a civil airport specified under, and at which, portions of the movement areas and safety areas are shared by both parties?

<p>Shared-use airport</p> Signup and view all the answers

Cargo Service Airports have a landed weight of more than what?

<p>100 million pounds</p> Signup and view all the answers

What governs flight operations throughout the world?

<p>International Civil Aviation Organization</p> Signup and view all the answers

What uses commercial air transportation to move cargo or people but does not own or control the aircraft?

<p>Indirect air carrier</p> Signup and view all the answers

Under Title 14 CFR Part 91.103, what must each pilot in command do during pre-flight?

<p>Become familiar with all available information concerning that flight before taking off</p> Signup and view all the answers

What checks the weather at the point of departure, enroute, and the arrival airports, and references applicable Notices to Air Missions (NOTAMS)?

<p>Chart Supplements</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who has the final level of responsibility for the flight's safety and security?

<p>Pilot-in-command</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of flying uses navigation based mainly on ground reference points such as seeing a water tower with the local town's name or other known features that pilots could identify from the air?

<p>Pilotage</p> Signup and view all the answers

Pilots typically can operate under Visual Flight Rules when under what height of Mean Sea Level?

<p>18,000 feet</p> Signup and view all the answers

What informs the FAA of the pilot's identity, the type of plane, the number of people on board, the point of departure and intended arrival, and the estimated time of arrival?

<p>Flight plan</p> Signup and view all the answers

What identifies the airport, related weather, navigational and communication frequencies, navigational aids, light patterns of cities at night, terrain features, obstructions and airspace information?

<p>Sectional charts</p> Signup and view all the answers

Low Altitude En Route is used for operations under what height?

<p>18,000 feet</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are airways below 18,000 feet MSL?

<p>Victor Airways</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are airways above 18,000 feet MSL?

<p>Jet Routes</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the specialized procedures pilots use to depart from and arrive at an airport, along with the instrument approaches?

<p>Terminal Instrument Procedures</p> Signup and view all the answers

An approach to a runway is conducted under one of what two methods?

<p>Visual and instrument</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is a government branch that operates as a business?

<p>Enterprise</p> Signup and view all the answers

Airports that are unable to be self-sustainable will be partially funded by what?

<p>City or county general fund.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the most common form of airport sponsorship?

<p>Municipality</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the term for shifting a traditional government responsibility to the control of a private enterprise?

<p>Privatization</p> Signup and view all the answers

What transfers the federal obligation and the responsibility for the operation, management, and development of an airport from a public sponsor to a private sponsor?

<p>Airport Investment Partnership Program</p> Signup and view all the answers

Can a municipality sell or lease a public airport to a private airport operator without applying for the Airport Investment Partnership Program?

<p>Yes</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is management's primary duty in any situation at an airport?

<p>Safe, secure and efficient</p> Signup and view all the answers

What includes managing the budget, human resources, procurement, public relations and air service development?

<p>Finance and Administration</p> Signup and view all the answers

What addresses the areas of capital improvement plans?

<p>Planning and Engineering</p> Signup and view all the answers

What addresses the areas of enforcing both safety and security regulations on the airfield and the airport’s landside and terminal areas?

<p>Operations, Security and Maintenance</p> Signup and view all the answers

What typically addresses the areas of marketing for airport services and properties, publicity and response to issues?

<p>Community Relations, Marketing, and Air Service Development</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is commonly issued when an independent agency of the government desires to add, change or remove a regulation?

<p>Notice of Proposed Rulemaking</p> Signup and view all the answers

What charged the Secretary of Commerce with fostering air commerce, issuing and enforcing air traffic rules, licensing pilots, certifying aircraft, establishing airways, and operating and maintaining aids to air navigation?

<p>Air Commerce Act</p> Signup and view all the answers

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