Module 1 - Finance & Administration
This is the unallowable use of airport revenues for non-airport purposes.
What is revenue diversion?
This is a graphical representation and legal document showing an airport's existing and proposed facilities and is required for AIP funding.
What is the ALP (Airport Layout Plan)?
This FAA regulation sets minimum safety and maintenance standards for U.S. commercial service airports.
What is Part 139?
One of these is a single, designated individual who is the official voice of the airport in a crisis, while the other is a role within NIMS that manages public information.
What is the difference between a spokesperson and a public information officer?
This is a five-year plan, published every two years, that lists public-use airports and identifies improvements that are eligible for federal funding
What is the NPIAS (National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems)?
This is the most common form of airport ownership, usually held by a city or county.
What is a public-use airport?
This is a set of procedures that establishes a Categorical Exclusion, Environmental Assessment, or Environmental Impact Statement as a result of a federal action.
What are the three categories of environmental action?
One of these requires aircraft to remain on the ground at their origin airport due to conditions at the destination airport, while the other delays aircraft at their departure airport to manage arrival demand.
What is the difference between a Ground Stop and a Ground Delay Program?
This is the FAA's standard for measuring cumulative noise exposure under a Part 150 study, including a 10-decibel penalty for nighttime hours.
What is the Day/Night Average (DNL)?
This is the FAA's policy that all revenues must be expended only for the capital or operating costs of the airport or the local airport system.
What is the airport revenue use policy?
This is a set of obligations that airport sponsors agree to when accepting federal grant monies or property.
What are grant assurances?
This occurs when a runway's beginning is moved down the pavement, often due to an obstruction, shortening the available landing distance.
What is a displaced threshold?
These are categories of severity for a runway incursion, ranging from a near-miss to a minor event with no safety consequences.
What are the four classifications of a runway incursion?
One of these is a direct payment of airport revenue to an air carrier in exchange for service, which is prohibited, while the other is a permissible fee reduction to encourage new service.
What is the difference between a subsidy and an incentive?
This is an event where an aircraft departs the runway during takeoff or landing, while this is an unauthorized presence of an aircraft, vehicle, or person on a runway.
What is the difference between a runway excursion and a runway incursion?
This is a financial plan for day-to-day operations and a plan for long-term investments in assets.
What are an operating budget and a capital budget?
One of these is a lease with a constant rate, and the other is a lease where rent is based on a percentage of business sales.
What is the difference between a Straight and a Percentage Lease?
This is the primary responsibility of ARFF, which dictates that its crew must reach the mid-point of the furthest runway and apply extinguishing agent within a specified time.
What is to save lives?
This is a ground-based navigational aid that transmits an omni-directional signal and can be used for non-precision approaches
What is a Non-Directional Beacon (NDB)?
These are impacts caused by a federal action that occur at the same time and place, while these are impacts that are later in time or farther removed in distance
What is the difference between a direct and an indirect impact?
This type of tax is levied on a private party's use of tax-exempt government-owned real property and may be considered revenue diversion if not used for airport purposes.
What is a possessory interest tax?
This is a type of concrete pavement deterioration caused by a chemical reaction that can be accelerated by de-icing materials
What is ASR (Alkali-Silica Reaction)?
This stands for an extinguishing agent designed to fight hydrocarbon fuel fires, though its use is being phased out due to environmental concerns.
What is AFFF (Aqueous Film Forming Foam)?
This is the combination of an airport's direct, indirect, and induced economic contributions to a community
What are the three components of the total economic impact?
This is a trapezoidal area located off the runway ends that is designed to protect people and property on the ground and is required to be under the control of the airport.
What is a Runway Protection Zone (RPZ)?