Security Stuph
SMS
Imaginary Surfaces
ARFF, ARFF
NOTAMS
400

This is the acronym for the portion of an airport in which security identification must be displayed.

The SIDA

400

This SMS component serves as the foundation by documenting an airport’s means of deploying its safety management system.

What is Safety Policy?

400

This imaginary surface is a horizontal plane located 150 feet above the established airport elevation.

What is the horizontal surface?

400

Part 139 determines an airport’s ARFF Index using average daily departures and this aircraft measurement.

What is aircraft length?

400

Water exceeding this depth is reported as “Water” rather than “Wet.”

What is 1/8 inch, or 3 millimeters?

800

Under an airport’s challenge program, authorized individuals must question or report people who fail to visibly display this.

What is authorized airport identification media?

800

This component connects the other three by facilitating safety training, communication, and cross-communication.

What is Safety Promotion?

800

This runway-centered surface has an elevation equal to that of the nearest point on the runway centerline.

What is the primary surface?

800

An airport’s longest air carrier aircraft is 165 feet long and averages six daily departures. This combination establishes this ARFF Index.

What is Index D?

800

Runway Condition Codes become applicable when contamination covers more than this percentage of the runway’s overall length and width.

What is 25 percent?

1000

An individual without unescorted-access authority must be continuously accompanied or monitored under this procedure.

What is escorting?

1000

This individual acts on behalf of the certificate holder in implementing and maintaining the airport’s SMS.

Who is the Accountable Executive?

1000

This surface extends outward and upward from the horizontal surface’s perimeter at a slope of 20 to 1.

What is the conical surface?

1000

The three-minute response point is normally the midpoint of this runway, measured from the vehicle’s assigned post.

What is the farthest runway serving air carrier aircraft?

1000

A NOTAM should not be used to advertise information already presented in either of these two places.

What are aeronautical charts and related publications?

1600

The act of following someone through a secure door without swiping your access media is known as this.

Piggybacking or Tailgating

1600

During risk analysis, the airport evaluates this reasonably foreseeable result of a hazard—not merely the most extreme imaginable result.

What is the worst credible outcome?

1600

These surfaces rise at right angles to the runway centerline and its extension from the sides of both the primary and approach surfaces in a 7:1 ratio.

What are transitional surfaces?

1600

If an inoperative required vehicle cannot be replaced immediately and full Index capability is not restored within this period, air carrier operations generally must be limited to those compatible with the remaining capability.

What is 48 hours?

1600

nder 14 CFR § 139.339(d), airport operators must retain records of disseminated airport-condition information for at least this long.

What are 12 consecutive calendar months?

2000

TSA issues this mandatory document when additional security measures are needed in response to a threat assessment or specific threat.

What is a Security Directive?

2000

The FAA discourages giving an SMS support position this title because it could suggest that one manager or division alone is responsible for safety.

What is “Safety Manager”?

2000

The approach surface for a nonprecision instrument runway other than utility extends 10,000 feet at this slope.

What is 34 to 1?

2000

An airport’s longest air carrier aircraft is 165 feet long and averages six daily departures. This combination establishes this ARFF Index.

What is Index D?

2000

Airport operators must issue a NOTAM when this energy-absorbing runway safety system is damaged or inoperable.

What is an Engineered Materials Arresting System, or EMAS?

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