Air Carrier Operations Chapter 1 quiz

A flag carrier must use weather sources approved by

the Administrator of the FAA

A company must operate under 14 CFR Part 121 if it is:

A domestic operation

A flight follower differs from an aircraft dispatcher in that:

A flight follower is not required to be a certified airman

The Concept of common carriage is derived from

British Common Law

As a Commercial Pilot, acting individually and without further certificates, you may

Charge a gas company to perform pipeline aerial spotter patrols

A supplemental operation is one that

Conducts charter-type (nonscheduled) operations using aircraft having more than 30 seats and/or with more than 7,000 pounds payload capacity

Which of the following is not an element of common carriage?

Having a license or certificate

Private carriage is distinguished from common carriage primarily by

Transportation (carriage) of only one or a very small number of parties

A company operating turbo-propeller aircraft with 8 passenger seats and a payload of 7,000 pounds three times a week between Los Angeles and Mexico City on a scheduled basis would need to hold

a Part 135 operating certificate (which allows on-demand operations).

Holding out to the public would include

all of the above

Part 121 air carriers must have the ability to communicate with a flight crew

at any point in the route structure in a rapid and reliable fashion

A commuter operation is one that

conducts scheduled operations (five or more round trips per week) in non-turbojet aircraft that have nine or fewer passenger seats and a payload capacity of 19 or less passengers

Assume you were found to be operating as an on-demand air carrier but didn't have an operating certificate. The potential penalty for this would be an $11,000 fine for

each provision of part 135 applicable to each flight conducted

In analyzing a situation in which a private pilot is accused of acting illegally as a common carrier, the FAA will, among other tests, look to see if the pilot

had an independent interest in taking the trip

Operational control is the concept that:

the carrier, not the crew, is the final determinant of how the aircraft is operated