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What time from a suitable alternate is allowed for operators who can show an acceptable engine failure rate.

120 minutes

The GPS space system consists of how many operational satellites?

21

The ICAO is composed of how many member states?

152

Prevailing visibility is given in the U.S. reports and is defined as the greatest distance objects can be seen and identified throughout at least ______ degrees of the horizon circle.

180

What year was the meteorological aviation report (METAR) code developed?

1960

In what year did ICAO establish the special committee on Future Air Navigations Systems (FANS).

1983

The ICAO council members are composed of how many contracting states?

33

The United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, is divided into how many times zones?

4

How high should registration marks be painted or otherwise permanently affixed on the wings of an aircraft?

50 cm

At the top of the CDU keyboard panel, how many annunciators operate independently from the CRT and keyboard?

6

When an ATC track change is received or updated, it is recommended that _____?

A new master document is prepared for the changed portion of the flight.

What is the correct acronym for Air Route Traffic Control Centers?

ARTCC

The direction of the great circle route makes an angle of about _____ with the meridian of New York, about _____ with the meridian of Iceland, and still greater angle with the meridian of London.

About 50° with the meridian of New York; About 90° with the meridian of Iceland

What is the basic measuring instrument of the inertial navigation system?

Accelerometer

Standard COM/NAV equipment is considered to be which of the following

All of the above

The IRU microprocessors preform computations required for which of the following?

All of the above

Which of the following flight information regions are within the North Pacific?

All of the above

Wind speed can be measured in which of the following units?

All of the above

The Doppler Effect applies to which of the following wave motion?

All of the answers are correct

Choose the term(s) which are used to express the horizontal direction of one terrestrial point from another.

All of the terms

Procedures for error detection consist of the following items except for?

Assuming that the aircraft is at a waypoint

This projection is neither perspective, equal area, nor conformal.

Azimuthal Equidistant Projection

Navigation is considered:

Both an art and science

A permanently plannable CDR during the times published in the Enroute section of the Jeppesen Airway Manual.

CDR1

A non-permanent plannable CDR. This route will be flight planned in accordance with conditions published daily in the CRAM only.

CDR2

A not plannable CDR. This route is usable on ATS instructions only.

CDR3

The pilot does not need to understand the limitations of each navigation system that they will use.

False

What term best describes the rights of states to regulate air traffic within their territories?

Cabotage

Which of the following statements summarizes the gross error check?

Checking the system against another source of information

What is the pilots interface with the FMS?

Control Display Unit

The horizontal component of the intended path of the aircraft comprising both direction and magnitude or distance.

Course Line

A gyrocompass error caused by the fact that the earth is turning but the gyro wheel remains ridged in space.

Drift

What two important tools are used on every trans-oceanic flight?

ETP and the Wet Footprint

The most widely used modern day calendar is based on which of the following calendars?

Gregorian Calendar

The Earth travels around the Sun on what type of orbit?

Elliptical Orbit

What is the weather abbreviation for fog?

FG

A three-digit number assigned by the United Nations to a particular chemical is referred to as a UN number?

False

An inertial accelerometer is capable of distinguishing between gravitational forces and actual aircraft acceleration.

False

Canada has not moved toward full adaption of the ICAO/WMO format of aviation weather information.

False

If unable to comply with specific provisions, the aircraft should leave its assigned route or track by turning 45 degrees to the right or left whenever this is possible.

False

It is the task of the European Air Traffic Flow Unit, administered by EUROCONTROL, to operate the Real Time Management of the flow of air traffic throughout the area of the member states of the European Civil Aviation Conference.

False

Pilots do not need to worry about complacency.

False

Signed on October 12, 1922, the Warsaw Convention has become one of the most important documents in international commercial air transpiration.

False

Since the adoption by ICAO more than 20 years ago, the use of Secondary Surveillance Radar (SSR) for surveillance has yet to spread throughout the world.

False

Temperature and dew point are reported in degree Fahrenheit.

False

The Earth is steadily increasing its rotational speed.

False

The Headquarters for ICAO are in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.

False

The North Atlantic Minimum Navigation Performance Standards (MNSP) airspace is the volume of airspace between FL280 and FL420 extending between latitude 30 degrees North and the North Pole.

False

The Strapdown laser-gyro system utilizes inertial sensors that are fixed relative to the structure. These sensors consist of two or more ring laser gyros and two or more accelerometers.

False

The airborne ADS function transfers data from the aircraft to the controlling ATC unit.

False

The basic principles of an inertial accelerometer have changed drastically over the past several years.

False

The criteria used for satellite selection are not very important factors in GPS receiver design. Criteria includes: health, geometric dilution of precision, user range accuracy, elevation angle, and availability of external aids.

False

The fundamental concept of the Conditional Use of Airspace is that the airspace should no longer be designated as either civil or military airspace, but should be considered as one continuum and used existing conditions on a day to day basis.

False

The navigation computer provides a primary means for pilot input to the system.

False

The precision code is a 365-day long code sequence, and each of the GPS satellites is assigned a unique one week segment of this code.

False

The term knots is used to express "statute miles per hour" and MPH is used for "nautical miles per hour".

False

The wet footprint is the amount of time on either side of the Gsret during which, if specific range is degraded for any reason, the airplane will have to ditch.

False

Tropospheric Delay Error refers to the differences between actual satellite GPS time and that predicted by satellite data.

False

When a member of state joins ICAO it agrees to support the organization worldwide which therefore makes the implementation of ICAO mandatory.

False

When operating on IFR clearance, any change of altitude or true airspeed great than 10% requires re-clearance from ATC.

False

With the present reliability level of jet engines, engine failure is a very likely occurrence along with other system problems that include, pressurization, fire, smoke, passenger medical, etc.

False

What is the acronym for Global Navigation Satellite System?

GNSS

Classified according to the point of tangency of the plane of projection.

Gnomonic Projections

Universal Coordinated Time is the same time as what time zone?

Greenwich Mean Time

What air-ground communications system may need to be retained initially to provide communication over the polar regions where geostationary satellites currently have no coverage?

HF

What navigation system limitation is considered the greatest error of all?

Human Error

What is the abbreviation for 3 or 4 oktas of cloud coverage?

SCT

What is the property of matter best described by Newton's first law of motion, which says "A body continues in a state of rest, or uniform motion in a straight line, unless acted upon by unequal external forces."

Inertia

The angle formed at any point between the magnetic meridian and the geographic meridian is called?

Magnetic Variation

The two methods of projection used are called _____ and _____.

Mathematical and perspective

On an international flight plan form the acronym for the SELCAL code is defined as

SEL/

The alignment of INS must be completed and the equipment switched to ____ mode prior to releasing the parking brake at the ramp for push-back.

NAV

Canada, Denmark, and Iceland will only authorize routes which provide a minimum fuel reserve of in excess of the IFR reserve?

NOT 15%

What calendar was based on the assumption that the year is 365.25 days long?

NOT Julian Calendar

Values of latitude range from _____ north and south. Values of longitude range from _____ east and west.

NOT Latitude: 0° to 90°; Longitude: 0° to 90°

When magnetic material in the aircraft deflect the compass needle from its normal alignment the amount of deflection is called?

NOT Magnetic Deviation

The rules and regulations of which convention were adopted by the principal European nations?

NOT The Havana Convention

What section of the DOD catalog contains a general description of the scale, code, projection, size, purpose, style and information shown on all charts used for planning references and wall displays?

NOT section 4

What are the two organizations within the U.S. government primarily responsible for providing time and frequency information?

National Bureau of Standards (NBS) & U.S. Naval Observatory (USNO)

What component of the FMS provides both lateral and vertical navigation guidance?

Navigation Computer

Which component is NOT part of a Flight Management System?

Navigation Sensor

The ICAO country code for Utah, USA is?

None of the above

Crews who decide to check or update their long-range navigation systems by reference to VOR's should remember that in the Canadian Northern Control Area, VORs are not aligned with reference to magnetic

North

Depressing what key enables the pilot to access the performance index.

PERF

A gyrocompass error caused by forces applied to the axis of the gyro wheel.

Precession

According to the text, what are the first two principles of survival over the North Atlantic Ocean?

Protection and Location

On an international flight plan form the acronym for "reason for special handling by the ATS" is defined as

STS/

The MFD also includes a unique North-up plan mode where the pilot can scroll through the entire flight plan. The North-up plan mode is also referred to as...

Relative-up Plan

The main functional organization that does the day-to-day operations of ICAO is the

Secretariat

Which of the following is not a part of the plotting technique?

Select track change 1-2 and check the accuracy of the indicated distance against the listed in the master document.

This projection is a perspective-conformal projection of the sphere.

Stereographic Projection

(ATFM phrases in Europe) Defined as a period more than two days before the day of operation.

Strategic Phase

What term best describes a numeric code used by meteorologists to transfer information from meteorological stations to mainframe computers?

Synoptic Code

A special (SPECI) report is issued anytime weather conditions meet predetermined criteria.

TRUE

The United Kingdom and the United States met and negotiated a bilateral understanding of the development of international air transport.

The Bermuda Agreement

What term best describes a precision approach and landing guidance system which provides position information and various ground to air data.

The Microwave Landing System

(ATFM phrases in Europe) Two days before the day of operation.

The Pre-Tactical Phase

(ATFM phrases in Europe) The day of operation in which ATFM plans are executed.

The Tactical Phase

The US has been a party to what convention since 1934?

The Warsaw Convention

What is a measure of elapsed time required for a receiver to acquire the satellite signals and navigation data, and calculate the first position solution?

Time-to-first-fix

The horizontal component of the actual path of the aircraft over the surface of the earth.

Track

A Mach Number Technique is a technique whereby subsonic turbojet aircraft operating successively along suitable routes are cleared by ATC to maintain appropriate Mach Numbers for a relevant portion of the en route phase of their flight.

True

A modern Inertial Navigation System is the only self-contained single source for all navigation data.

True

A projection can be defined as a systematic construction of lines on a plane surface to represent the parallels of latitude and the meridians of longitude of the earth or a section of the earth.

True

ATFM messages do not directly change or modify a flight plan.

True

All clock times should be entered in four-digit figures when completing a flight plan form.

True

An abbreviated clearance is only issued by air traffic services when clearing an aircraft to fly along the whole length of an organized track or along a Polar track within Reykjavik OCA.

True

Any straight line plotted on a Lambert conformal chart is approximately an arc of a great circle.

True

As long as the airplane flies in only one direction, one accelerometer is sufficient to determine distance traveled from the starting position.

True

Azimuth is the true direction to a point in space.

True

CAVOK stands for Ceiling And Visibility OK.

True

Depressing the DIR mode key displays the active flight plan with the DIRECT, HOLD, and INTERCEPT prompts.

True

ETOPS states: At all times, for normal operation, a flight must be within a specified distance from a suitable airport.

True

Flight crews conducting very long range operations may include an extra relief pilot.

True

GPS is synchronized with UTC (Universal Coordinated Time).

True

ICAO Annex 18 contains the general rules about how dangerous goods should be packed and transported and the responsibilities of various parties involved with their transportation.

True

In computer data networking terminology, the infrastructure required to support the interconnection of automated systems is referred to as an internet.

True

It is strongly recommended that crew complete their flight planning with some study of the culture and customs of the countries they will descend upon.

True

Misuse of the master document can result in gross navigation errors.

True

Position reports on the routes between gateway fixes shall be made using geographical coordinates.

True

Preparation can be categorized into readiness or advanced preparation, as well as specific trip preparation (route specific).

True

Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (RVSM) Airspace is that which has been designated by international agreement, as airspace in which air traffic control (ATC) separates aircraft by a minimum of 1,000 feet vertically between FL290 and FL410 (inclusive). Typically, this airspace is designated in areas of very hight density traffic.

True

Route planning starts first with the analysis of the range and altitude capability of the aircraft.

True

Since the early days among international jurist, two principal theories of national sovereignty of air-space have existed. These two theories include: 1. Individual states have the right of sovereignty over the airspace over their soil and 2. Air is free and states have no authority over it.

True

Surveillance is the basic tool the controller uses to monitor the maintenance of safety separation, manage the airspace efficiently and to assist the pilot in navigating his or her aircraft safely.

True

The Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue (AMVER) is an International Maritime Mutual Assistance program.

True

The Global Positioning System in a space-based radio positioning system which provides suitability equipped users with highly accurate position, velocity, and time data.

True

The acquisition and interpretation of weather information is an essential part of the preflight planning process.

True

The alert messages on the CDU are divided into two major groups: advisory messages and alert messages.

True

The flight management system, as an example of FMS, is designed as a federated system, where the are independent but interactive components but each component performs a system function.

True

The mean solar day is defined as an interval of time equal to the average length of all the individual solar days of the year.

True

The only cylindrical projection used for navigation is the Mercator.

True

The requirement to keep the aircraft in the tunnel is of the RNP type, translated into accuracy, integrity, continuity, and availability parameters.

True

The slot allocation and slot modification process relies on an exchange of ATFM Messages between the AO, the CFMU and ATC units.

True

The world is divided into 24 time zones.

True

Two levels of navigation are provided by the GPS: the Precise Positioning Service and the Standard Positioning Service.

True

Two predictable errors associated with spinning mass gyrocompasses are real drift and changes in magnetic variation.

True

When a message to the pilot is present in the scratchpad, depressing the CLR key deletes that message.

True

When interception of a civil aircraft is necessary, ICAO recommends referring to the International Flight Information Manual.

True

The intended horizontal direction of travel over the surface of the earth, expressed as an angle measured clockwise from true north through 360°.

True Course

What is the only method of air-ground communication used between the pilot and air traffic controller?

Voice

What letters should be inserted into the international flight plan form if no ICAO four-letter indicator has been assigned for an aerodrome?

ZZZZ

ETOPS states that a flight must be within a specified distance from an airport at all times.

adequate

Magnetic Deviation

caused by nearby magnetic influences, such as those related to magnetic material in the structure of the aircraft and its electrical systems.

Magnetic Dip

caused by nearby magnetic influences, such as those related to magnetic material in the structure of the aircraft and its electrical systems.

The place(s) where an aircraft enters and leaves oceanic control airspace is called:

coast-in point and coast-out point

What GPS segment consists of a master control station and a number of monitor stations located on the ground around the world?

control segment

Cruising speed should be defined as a maximum of 4 characters on the international flight plan form.

false

An aircraft type with a maximum certificated takeoff mass of 7,000 kg (15,500 lbs) or less is defined as

light

What is the wake turbulence definition for the term "heavy?"

maximum certificated takeoff mass of 136,000 kg (300,000 lbs) or more.

In the event an engine failure occurs, the crew is obligated to go directly to the closest...

rim alternate

During the alignment period, the Inertial Reference Unit (IRU) computer has determined true north by sensing the direction of the earth's ______.

rotation

It is generally accepted that positioning availability is the probability of the user having a position solution with a position dilution of

six

What GPS segment consists of a constellation of GPS satellites in semi-synchronous orbits around the earth?

space segment