PHAK Chapter 14 Flashcards

Publicly owned airports that have at least 2,500 passenger boardings each calendar year and receive scheduled passenger service.

Airports that are served by aircraft providing air transportation of only cargo with a total annual landed weight of more than 100 million pounds.

<p>Airports designated by the FAA to relieve congestion at Commercial Service Airports and to provide impoverished general aviation access to the overall community.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Largest single group of airports in the USA. Includes privately owned, public use airports that enplane 2,500 or more passengers annually and receive scheduled airline service.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Towered or non-towered airports.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Airports that are open to the general public.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Airports operated by the military, NASA, or other agencies of the federal government.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Airports designated for private or restricted use only, not open to the general public.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An airport that has an operating control tower.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An airport where 2-way communication is not required.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When a portion of a runway is closed, the runway threshold is relocated as necessary.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A threshold located at a point on a runway other than the designated beginning of the runway.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A defined surface surrounding the runway prepared to reduce risk of damage to airplanes in case of an undershoot, overshoot, or excursion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A sign that faces the runway and is visible only when exiting the runway.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The airport version of a stop sign, with white characters on a red background.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Four yellow lines; two solid and two dashed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They show the distance in thousands of feet of runway remaining.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Operations when simultaneous takeoffs and landings are conducted on intersecting runways, wherein a land and hold short clearance may be issued.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Taxiway direction signs have a yellow background and black characters, indicating the designation of intersecting taxiways.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Markings used to warn pilots of an upcoming runway.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They indicate a destination at the airport.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system that broadcasts signals to arriving instrument aircraft to guide them to the runway.</p> Signup and view all the answers