General Control
This is the primary purpose of the air traffic control system.
Answer: What is to prevent collisions and organize and expedite the flow of air traffic?
This is the process of documenting flight data for air traffic control purposes.
Answer: What is recording information?
This is the term for the paper or electronic strip used to track an aircraft's flight progress.
Answer: What is a flight progress strip?
This is the standard phraseology to confirm receipt of an ATC instruction.
Answer: What is "Roger"?
Clue: This advisory is issued when unmanned aircraft systems are operating in the area.
Answer: What is UAS activity information?
This type of advisory is issued when aircraft are operating behind others requiring wake turbulence separation.
Answer: What is a wake turbulence cautionary advisory?
This involves transmitting flight plan data to the appropriate facility.
Answer: What is forwarding information?
This entry on a flight progress strip indicates the aircraft's identification.
Answer: What is aircraft identity?
This term refers to the requirement for pilots to repeat back certain ATC instructions.
Answer: What is read back?
Clue: This term refers to the notification issued when bird activity is reported.
Answer: What is bird activity information?
Controllers must issue this when an aircraft is in unsafe proximity to terrain or other aircraft.
Answer: What is a safety alert?
This term refers to the process of changing an aircraft's flight plan from IFR to VFR.
Answer: What is IFR to VFR flight plan change?
This symbol on a flight progress strip indicates the clearance status of an aircraft.
Answer: What is clearance status?
This is the priority order for interphone transmissions.
Answer: What is emergency messages, clearance and control instructions, movement and control messages, and administrative messages?
Clue: This check is performed to ensure landing gear is down before landing.
Answer: What is a wheels down check?
Clue: This action involves transferring responsibility for aircraft separation to another controller.
Answer: What is a control transfer?
This code is assigned to military aircraft departing under DVFR.
Answer: What is a beacon code?
This term refers to the shorthand symbols used on flight progress strips.
Answer: What is control symbology?
This term refers to unauthorized or deceptive transmissions on ATC frequencies.
Answer: What are false or deceptive communications?
Clue: This type of operations requires coordination and advisory issuance due to non-standard separation procedures.
Answer: What are formation flight operations?
This term refers to the process of handing over control of an aircraft to another controller or facility.
Answer: What is a transfer of position responsibility?
This program allows aircraft to fly user-preferred routes across North America.
Answer: What is the North American Route Program (NRP)?
This entry indicates the type of aircraft on the flight progress strip.
Answer: What is aircraft type?
Clue: This is the term for the format used when relaying ATC messages.
Answer: What is radio message format?
What is the Branch of service Prefix for the Army
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