Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Flight operating rules developed by the United States are found where?
14 CFR 91
Which of the following state that when UASs share the same airspace with manned air vehicles, it will be necessary that automated sense-and-avoid systems provide a level of safety equaling or exceeding that of manned aircraft?
14 CFR 91.113 RTCA DO-304
Which of the following were the US Army Air Corps and Navy limited to using in World War II?
B-24 B-17
Who was awarded a $200,000 contract by the US Navy to develop his "Flying Bomb" project?
Elmer Sperry
What is equal to the expected number of collisions divided by time?
Expected collision rate
Portugal is likely to utilize UAVs to assist in which civilian area?
Forest fires
Which of the following is a high-altitude endurance UAS using liquid hydrogen as its fuel?
Global Observer
The portable ground control system that can be carried in a warfighter's ruck sack weighs how much?
Just under 8 pounds
What is the most numerous example of a radar decoy?
McDonnell ADM-20 Quail
Which of the following is an example of a commercial UAV mission?
Precision agriculture
What is the brainstorming tool used to identify initial safety issues early in the UAS operation?
Preliminary hazard list and analysis (PHL/A)
What is the biggest challenge faced by UAS operators?
Restrictions placed on the flight by the applicable COA or SAW certificate
What is the evaluation of common operational hazards in terms of severity and probability?
Risk assessment
Acceptable system safety studies must include which of the following?
Risk assessment Other appropriate documentation that supports an "extremely improbable" determination Hazard analysis
What is the FAA's central mission?
To promote adherence to safety standard
What has been the most significant catalyst to UAV growth?
U.S. military
At what level is the need for quick deployment times in order to complete the intended civil UAV missions?
medium
Operations away from airways and away from major flight levels have the lowest collision risk.
true
Which noncooperative technology uses an integration of multiple radar pulses to create an image?
radar
Which class of unmanned aircraft systems is used as medium duration, surveillance enhancement systems?
tactical
How many ScanEagle UASs have been produced in partnership with the Boeing company according to the video?
1000
In what year did the FAA establish the use of certificates of authorization or waivers as the process that DoD organizations were to use in making their request to perform unmanned aircraft flight operations in the NAS?
1999
What amount of Shadow accidents were attributed to human factor issues?
21
A fully operational Predator system consists of how many Predators?
4
How far above ground is considered to be outside of a landowner's territorial claim?
500 feet
What percent of the United States reported in the census is completely unpopulated?
6.3
What amount of research and development spending on UAV technology will the United States account for in the next decade?
77%
According to the video Operation Aphrodite, what amount of explosives was packed on the aircraft?
9 tons
Which of the following sections of the FARs discuss operating near other aircraft?
91.111
Which regulation encourages voluntary compliance with safety standards for model aircraft operators and acknowledges that model aircraft may pose a safety hazard to full-scale aircraft in flight and to persons and property on the ground?
AC 91-57
Which accident causal factor was the highest for the Pioneer?
AIRCRAFT
Which requirement for UAS operations requires contact with ATC facilities anytime the UA is being operated under instrument flight rules?
ATC Communications Requirements
Which UAS can carry a family of compact payloads including television cameras, IR cameras, ESM, or jammer electronics, and is currently operating at NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility?
Aerosonde
Who filed a request, and now a lawsuit, seeking information on the legal rationales for all parts of the drones programs, carefully delineating military battlefield programs and CIA programs outside of the ordinary theaters of hostiles?
American Civil Liberties Union
Which cooperative technology provides operators with accurate and reliable information, along with additional navigation variables at near real time and allows more time to avoid collisions because of the extended range of service?
Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B)
What is the ability for an unmanned system to execute its mission following a set of preprogrammed instructions without operator intervention?
Autonomy
Which of the following are forms of transferring control between operators during long-distance and/or long-endurance UAV flights?
Control may be passed from one operator to another within a crew Control may be passed from one crew of operators to another within the same ground control station Control may be passed from one ground control station to another
Who is the largest user of UAS's domestically and internationally?
Department of Defense
Who said, "The most important tactical skill airman will need in the 21st Century will be the ability to rapidly acquire, develop, and share information across the Joint Force, and at all levels of warfare"?
Deptula
What is the distance between the means of the noise and signal distributions?
Discriminability measure
Who was the heavily government-financed early airplane designer competing with the Wright Brothers?
Doctor Langley
Which international aviation organization is an intergovernmental organization that acts as the core element of air traffic control services across Europe?
EUROCONTROL
Which noncooperative technology requires light for detecting objects?
Electro-optical
Which of the following is fundamental information that a sensor needs to acquire?
Elevation Range Azimuth
Military beyond line-of-sight operations are conducted via satellite on which of the following?
Encrypted Ku band in the 12 to 18 GHZ range
Under which of the following would citizen-suits be permitted where UAV use threatens wildlife?
Endangered Species Act
What is Germany's headline procurement?
EuroHawk HALE UAV
Under which of the following does overhead imagery and surveillance raise privacy concerns?
Fourth Amendment
In Europe, which civilian market is expected to be the first adopters of UAVs?
Government
To be actionable trespass of landowner's rights, aircraft flights would have to do what?
Interfere with the landowner's actual use of their land
Which of the following are classifications most relevant to risk in UAV systems?
Kinetic energy or momentum of the vehicle Mass and size of the vehicle Operational capabilities of the aircraft
Which category approved by the FAA does not require either airworthiness or pilot certification for certain uses and limited operations?
LSA Ultralights
What is the common theme across the mishaps related to transfer of control?
Lack of awareness of system settings on the part of the receiving crew
What is the most basic solution for monitoring the position and attitude of an UA?
Line-of-sight
Which of the following are advantages of a fixed-wing UAS?
Long flight duration for maximizing time on station or maximizing range Ability to conduct flights at higher altitudes not visible to the naked eye
Which of the following is a medium- to high-altitude, long-endurance UAS whose primary missions is to act as a persistent hunter-killer for critical time-sensitive targets?
MQ-9 Reaper
Northrop Grumman's Multi-Function Active Sensor radar is an example of which of the following?
Maritime Sensors
Which of the following had more than 300 times as many mishaps per flight-hour when compared to general, manned aviation?
Navy's RQ-2 Pioneer
Which requirement for UAS operations includes providing the pilot of the UAS with instructions to steer the UA clear of any potential collision with other traffic?
Observer requirement
Which of the following system considerations for mitigating the see and avoid risk assessment is currently immature, but should still be evaluated as a potential solution?
Onboard cameras/sensors
What is the goal or standard for a certified sense-and-avoid system, according to the FAA?
One fatality per 1 billion flight hours
Which of the following are part of the crew of a single Predator UAV?
One pilot Two sensor operators
Which of the following consisted of stripping out Navy PB4Y Privateers and packing over 10 tons of high explosives along with a Sperry-designed, three-axis autopilot; radio control links; and an RCA television in the nose?
Operation Anvil
What directly impacts operator workload and situational awareness, and has implications for crew size and the desired degree of system automation?
Operational context
What is a crucial part of the ongoing and continuous evaluation of hazards and provides the feedback necessary to determine that the mitigating actions employed have worked as expected?
Operational hazard review and analysis (OHR/A)
Line-of-sight operations are governed by which of the following?
Part 18 of the FCC regulations
How is turbulence indicated for the pilot of a UAV?
Perturbations of the camera image provided by UAV sensors
Who serves as the liaison between the DoD and the FAA on federal air traffic control and airspace management?
Policy Board on Federal Aviation
Which technique to limit the amount of adjacent channel energy that makes its way through the receiver filters includes adaptively reducing the transmitted signal level to no more than what is needed to close the link?
Power control
The use of radiometrically calibrated, remotely-sensed data for deriving estimates of crop physiological properties is an important aspect of remote sensing for which of the following?
Precision agriculture
Alert area, controlled firing area, military operations area, prohibited area, restricted area, and warning area are categories of what?
SUA
Which long range system by FLIR is specifically tailored to land vehicle operations?
Star SAFIRE LV
What type of claim is asserted in situations involving ground damage and in connection with product liability actions against "aircraft manufacturers and manufacturers or suppliers of component parts"?
Strict liability
Under which organization did UAV's become not a priority in the 1970s?
Tactical Air Command
Which UAV functional category provides ground aerial gunnery a target that simulates an enemy aircraft or missile?
Target and decoy
Most of the world's aviation efforts in unmanned aircraft after World War I focused primarily on which of the following?
Target drones
Which of the following has the primary missions of providing low-level radar surveillance data in support of Federal agencies involved in the nation's drug interdiction program?
Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS)
The Civil UAV Capability Assessment is intended to parallel which of the following?
The Office of the Secretary of Defense UAV Roadmap
What is the least legally complicated or controversial use of drones?
Traditional battlefield use
What is the decision-aiding system that receives transponder signals from cooperative traffic in the vicinity, which are then used to localize the traffic and report the traffic's altitude to the system?
Traffic Collision and Avoidance System (TCAS)
What is the primary cooperative collision avoidance system of a variety of airspace users?
Traffic alert and collision avoidance system (TCAS)
Which application of UASs is challenged by the canyon effect?
Traffic sensing
The Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout or the Bell Eagle Eye tilt-rotor are examples of what?
Vertical takeoff and landing UAS
What is the idea of establishing protocol between two control stations that ensures that all system parameters of the receiving station match those of the sending station?
Yoked interface
Which noncooperative technology detects aircraft on a collision course by detecting and tracking the sounds of their engines, propellers, or rotors?
acoustic
Which class of airspace surrounds airports that have an operating control tower?
class d
Which class of airspace is all other airspace in which IFR and VFR flights are allowed?
class e
High temporal resolution and real-time updating of visual imagery received from onboard sensors will degrade manual control of airframe and payload tasks.
false
The importance of drones lies principally on the traditional battlefield.
false
Austria is rated as having what likelihood of using UAVs for Law Enforcement and Border Protection purposes?
high
Which UAS had a mishap when the EP receiving control neglected to complete all control box checks and failed to notice that one of the switches on the box was in the wrong position?
hunter
Statistics show that controlling the UA during which of the following is a difficult problem for external pilots?
landing
Which noncooperative technology has the ability to detect non-perpendicular surfaces at high resolution and differentiate between objects as small as 5 millimeters in diameter or as large as buildings?
laser
Currently, no payload configuration or modular assembly has been certified as acceptable or essential equipment for UASs operating in the NAS.
true
Who ordered a reconnaissance version of the Ryan Firebee target drone?
USAF
Which of the following are considered to be operational civilian UAVs?
CIRPAS RMAX Aerosonde
What is the first task in clarifying unmanned aircraft system regulations?
Define the scope of what the FAA can and should regulate
What is the first layer in the layered approach to avoiding collisions?
Airspace structure, procedures
What was the largest human factor issue for Hunter accidents?
External pilot landing errors
Crew coordination, system complexity, and user-friendliness are issues related to which of the following aspects of accident investigation considerations?
Human factors
Which was the first known use of unmanned vehicles to assess damage and assist recovery efforts in relation to floods and hurricanes?
Hurricane Wilma
What are the sensors that are intended to support the mission of the collection platform?
Purpose-driven sensors
What was the name of the first unmanned helicopter?
QH-50 DASH
What is the name of the single multi-band FM video receiver that allows soldiers on the ground to view video from a range of UAVs?
ROVER terminal
Which Army UAS conducts surveillance during routine combat operations, much in the manner of an observation post or screening element?
RQ-11 Raven B
Which UAS was selected by the Army in December 1999 to meet the Brigade-level unmanned aircraft requirement for support to ground maneuver commanders?
RQ-7 Shadow 200
Which Army UAS is capable of carrying a 60-pound modular mission payload with more than five hours of endurance at altitudes of up to 15,000 feet?
RQ-7B Shadow
Under the Department of Defense, all three domains, across all classes of unmanned systems, what was listed as the number one priority?
Reconnaissance
During the Battle of Fallujah in 2004, which of McGreer's UAVs spotted would-be assailants and sent real-time video to troops on the ground?
ScanEagle
According to the view of Anderson, what should Congress use as the public justification of the use of drones?
Self-defense
