Airspaces (Class A-E)
Characteristics: Above 17,999MSL; Instrument Flight Plan required; Standard Altimeter Setting
What is Class A?
Established around US borders after the attacks on 9/11/2002
Air Defense Intercept Zones (ADIZ)
The NTSB
What is the National Transportation Safety Board?
The vast majority of GA pilots follow these guidelines
What are the wilderness requirements?
SCATANA
What is the Security Control of Air Traffic and Air Navigation Aids?
Characteristics: Upside-down wedding cake; Found at large airports (DEN, EWR); must hear the words “cleared into the _____”
What is Class B?
Contains military activity such as dogfighting, missile firing, and low level tactics
Military Operations Area (MOA)
The ANPRM
What is the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking?
National Parks, National Wildlife Refuges, Big Game Refuges
What are some examples of wilderness areas?
Why was the Soviet Union building a long range bomber force?
The Cold War
Characteristics: Magenta on a sectional; Mode C transponder required; Billings and Atlantic City are two examples
Alerts pilots to hazardous activities in international airspace
What is a Warning area?
The NPRM
What is the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking?
What altitude are aircraft asked to maintain above wilderness areas?
2,000ft AGL
F16
What did the Colorado National Guard transition to that caused contention?
Characteristics: Smallest airspace with a control tower; Bozeman is an example!
What is Class D?
Established for national security reasons. Aircraft are not allowed inside. Ex. The White House
Prohibited Areas
The FAA
What is the Federal Aviation Administration?
Pilots must fly through designated corridors in this area.
farmers, ranchers, hippies, and real estate developers
who protested Colorado’s transition to the F16?
Characteristics: Controlled airspace monitored by ATC; Covers most of the US from 1,200 to 14,500ft MSL
What is Class E?
What is a restricted area?
What is the Administrative Procedure Act?
Alaska
What is the only state not required to apply to the FAA for wilderness tours?
Has a Pilot ever been mistaken for a terrorist and shot down?
No.