ATM Review PDF

Inside a class A Airspace there is only IFR (Instrument Flight Rules).

• True

• False

The job of air traffic controllers is to:

• Maintain, safety by separation all aircrafts

• Provide control information and alerting service in dedicated airspace

• Provide control service to IFR flights and information’s service to other flights

• Give instructions to pilots so that they can avoid collisions

To fly using IFR rules, a pilot must be in IMC (Instruments Meteorological Conditions).

• True

• False

To fly using VFR (Visual Flight Rules), a pilot must be in VMC (Visual Meteorological Conditions).

• True

• False

Secondary surveillance radars (SSR) do detect:

• ALL aircrafts

• Aircraft that are equipped with a transponder.

• Aircrafts that have filled a flight plan.

Maximum range of an en route radar station is generally about:

• 50 NM

• 100 NM

• 150 NM

• 200 NM

Answer explanation

En route max range is 200NM if we don’t consider earth curvature, but the range for which the radar is useful it is 150.

The A-SMGCS (Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control System) is a tool that helps advanced surface movement guidance control system:

• Ground Controllers

• Aerodrome local controllers

• Pre-flight controllers

• Approach

In the 70s the en route controllers were able to control...

• Less aircrafts per sector than today because the radars were less precise.

• Less aircraft per sector than today because the navigation performance of aircraft was
  poor.

• More aircraft per sector than today because they were slower.

• More aircrafts per sector than today because the sectors were much larger.

The single European sky was an initiative of...

• Eurocontrol

• EASA

• The EU Commission

• ECAC

• ICAO

The average en route ATFM (Air Traffic Flow Management) delay per flight in Europe is about...

• 1 min

• 3 min

• 10 min

• 15 min