Airspace and ATS
Airfield
En route
Landing
Navigation
100
All airspace around the world is divided into .... ?
What are FIRs?
100
The area of an airport where aircraft are parked, unloaded or loaded, refueled, or boarded.
What is apron?
100
This is the difference between extinguishing a fire and containing a fire.
What is the first - putting it out completely and the second - being under control (not spreading any more).
100
This is the synonym for the landing gear to break down?
What is to collapse?
100
This is the meaning of pilotage.
What is navigating by means of visual references, typically with the help of a map?
200
ATS is divided into these units.
What are ACC, APP and TWR?
200
A location on an aerodrome movement area with a history or potential risk of collision or runway incursion, and where heightened attention by pilots/drivers is necessary.
What is a hotspot?
200
The inability of a pilot, who is part of the operating crew, to carry out one's normal duties because of the onset of physiological or psychological factors.
What is incapacitation?
200
The movement of an aircraft from touchdown through deceleration to taxi speed or full stop.
What is landing roll / roll-out?
200
These are the two components of ILS?
What is localizer and glide slope?
300
Estonia uses these three airspace classes.
What are C, D and G?
300
These markings denote the beginning of that portion of the runway usable for landing.
What is a threshold?
300
This is the difference between fuel starvation and fuel exhaustion.
What are the first - the fuel doesn't reach the engine and the latter - completely running out of fuel?
300
The opposite of retractable landing gear.
What is fixed landing gear?
300
The navigation system used by military aircraft.
What is TACAN?
400
ACC controls this traffic.
What is en route traffic?
400
It is an enclosed, movable connector which extends from an airport terminal gate to an airplane.
What is airbridge / jetway?
400
These are two TCAS advisories.
What TA and RA?
400
The synonym of landing gear.
What is undercarriage?
400
The transmitter radiating an omnidirectional signal.
What is NDB?
500
In Estonia FIR is divided into these.
What are CTA, TMA and CTR?
500
This system provides guidance information to help a pilot acquire and maintain the correct approach (in the vertical plane) to an airport. Situated next to the runway.
What is PAPI?
500
These are the three types of decompression.
What are explosive, rapid and slow / gradual decompression?
500
The final nose-up pitch movement of a landing aircraft preceding touchdown.
What is flare?
500
The signal transmitted by this navigation aid contains directional information.
What is VOR?
M
e
n
u