Air Law
This is the milestone that the Wright brothers were the first to achieve
What is powered, controlled, heavier-than-air flight?
The force that propels an aircraft forward
What is thrust?
A type of airline that operates smaller aircraft on short-haul routes
What is a regional airline?
The meaning of the term BA
What is business aviation?
The term used to refer to flights that are conducted without relying on visual reference
The international organization established in the Chicago Convention
What is ICAO?
The control surface that controls the roll of an aircraft
What are ailerons?
The metric used to calculate the cost of operating a single route
What is CASK?
What pilot (and ATC) licenses must be accompanied with to be valid
What is a current medical assessment?
The first thing a pilot should say upon making a radio call to ATC
What is the controller's identification?
The organization established during the Paris Convention of 1919 that played an important role in drafting the annexes of the Chicago Convention and was eventually replaced by ICAO
What is ICAN?
The angle at which the airflow meets the wing, between the chord line and the relative wind
What is the angle of attack?
The term used to describe when a specific aircraft is allocated to a route
What is a tail assignment?
The term used to describe a company that provides GA services at an airport
What is a fixed-based operator?
When an aircraft is just short of an active runway, the ground controller will instruct the pilot to do this
What is contact the tower?
The grouping of permanent administrative offices that is responsible for managing ICAO
What is a Secretariat?
The certification required by a new type of aircraft before it can legally fly or be sold
What is a type certificate?
The network design used by most LCCs
What is point to point (P2P)?
The rule established following the events of Colgan Air Flight 3407
What is the 1500-hour rule?
A way in which controllers separate aircraft that is based on separation rules and pilot position reports
What is procedural separation?
This is the freedom of the air that permits the carrying of passengers from an air carrier's home country to a foreign destination
What is the Third Freedom of the Air?
The four strokes of a piston engine
What is intake, compression, power, exhaust?
The term used to describe the time-related productivity of an aircraft
What is block hours?
The percentage of GA activities that are considered professional services
What is 75 percent?
The radio frequency band in which most aeronautical communications take place
What is the VHF spectrum?