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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?
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What are public-use airports that do not have scheduled service or have fewer than 2,500 annual passenger enplanements?
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What are the largest subcategory of airports in the United States?
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What type of GA airport is located in metropolitan areas near major business centers and support flying throughout the nation and the world?
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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?
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What type of GA airport accolades flight training, emergency services, and charter passenger service?
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What type of airport often have just one runway, helipad, or seaplane lane?
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What is an airport owned by the Department of Defense, at which both military and civilian aircraft make shared use of the airfield?
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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?
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Cargo Service Airports have a landed weight of more than what?
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What governs flight operations throughout the world?
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What uses commercial air transportation to move cargo or people but does not own or control the aircraft?
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Under Title 14 CFR Part 91.103, what must each pilot in command do during pre-flight?
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What checks the weather at the point of departure, enroute, and the arrival airports, and references applicable Notices to Air Missions (NOTAMS)?
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Who has the final level of responsibility for the flight's safety and security?
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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?
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Pilots typically can operate under Visual Flight Rules when under what height of Mean Sea Level?
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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?
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What identifies the airport, related weather, navigational and communication frequencies, navigational aids, light patterns of cities at night, terrain features, obstructions and airspace information?
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Low Altitude En Route is used for operations under what height?
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What are airways below 18,000 feet MSL?
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What are airways above 18,000 feet MSL?
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What are the specialized procedures pilots use to depart from and arrive at an airport, along with the instrument approaches?
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An approach to a runway is conducted under one of what two methods?
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What is a government branch that operates as a business?
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Airports that are unable to be self-sustainable will be partially funded by what?
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What is the most common form of airport sponsorship?
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What is the term for shifting a traditional government responsibility to the control of a private enterprise?
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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?
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Can a municipality sell or lease a public airport to a private airport operator without applying for the Airport Investment Partnership Program?
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What is management's primary duty in any situation at an airport?
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What includes managing the budget, human resources, procurement, public relations and air service development?
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What addresses the areas of capital improvement plans?
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What addresses the areas of enforcing both safety and security regulations on the airfield and the airport’s landside and terminal areas?
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What typically addresses the areas of marketing for airport services and properties, publicity and response to issues?
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What is commonly issued when an independent agency of the government desires to add, change or remove a regulation?
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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?
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