Abbreviations
FAM
What is Flight Attendant Manual?
1:45am
What is 0145 (zero one forty five)?
What is the National Transportation Safety Board?
It's the wall that separates spaces on the aircraft.
What is the bulkhead?
It's the aircraft's inability to maintain a designated cabin pressure.
What is decompression?
PIC, CA and FO
What is Pilot-in-Charge, Captain, and First Officer?
12:00pm
What is 1200 (twelve hundred)?
Created in 2001, it's responsible for developing policies to protect U.S. transportation, especially in airport security.
What is the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)?
It's the passenger area of the plane.
What is the cabin?
It's the paperwork provided to the flight attendant by the gate agent before passenger boarding.
What is pre-departure report?
GSD
What is Galley Service Door?
11:00pm
What is 2300 (twenty three hundred hours)?
It's the organization that sets and enforces protective workplace safety and health standards.
What is the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA)?
It's the body of the aircraft minus the wings and tail.
What is the fuselage?
It's the restricted area at the airport in which aircraft are parked and serviced.
What is the air operations area? (ramp area also acceptable)
POB
What is Portable Oxygen Bottle?
7:57pm
What is 1957 (nineteen fifty seven)?
It's the federal agency responsible for shaping and administering policies and programs to enhance the safety, adequacy, and efficiency of the transportation system.
What is the Department of Transportation (DOT)?
It's the front of the wing.
What is the leading edge?
They're employees who are jointly responsible with the Captain for the safe operation of each flight.
What are Dispatch?
GPU
What is Ground Power Unit?
12:30am
What is 0030 (midnight thirty)?
It's the Federal agency responsible for enforcing the policies and procedures set by the DOT. It oversees all aspects of American civil aviation.
What is the Federal Aviation Association (FAA)?
It's the back of the wing.
What is the trailing edge?
They are rules that govern each person aircraft within the U.S., each person operating and aircraft, and each person onboard the aircraft.
What is Federal Aviation Administration part 91?