Lighting
Air Masses
Airport Info
Airport types
100

The light used by a tower to communicate with a single radio-less aircraft

Light gun

100

This term describes an air mass pushing into a different-temperature air mass

Front

100

This map software should only be used to help a pilot with situational awareness for a new airport

Google Maps / Google Earth / Bing Maps

100

According to Federal Aviation Regulations, what has the following definition?

       “An area on land or water that is used or intended to be used for the landing and takeoff of aircraft and includes its buildings and facilities, if any.”

Airport

200

This color light indicates less than half of the runway remaining

Amber

200

This front tends to move slowly and produce stratus clouds

Warm front

200

Where a pilot looks for specific info about an airport

Chart supplement

200

This type of airport is used for passengers to book passage on a regularly-scheduled flight

Commercial airport

300

This color light indicates a taxiway

Blue

300

The front tends to move quickly and produce cumulus clouds

Cold front

300

This tells a pilot how wide a runway is

Number of vertical/longitudinal lines

300

This type of airport is primarily used by shipping companies

Cargo airport

400

This rotating light helps pilots locate the airport at night

Beacon

400

When a warm and cold front push each other with equal pressure

Stationary front

400

A runway with magnetic heading 43.5 degrees would have this designation

4

400

Why a commercial airliner would land at a reliever airport

Too much congestion at destination airport

500

The PAPI indication of being too low

Four red lights

500

When a warm front is pushed from behind by a faster cold front

Occluded front

500

A runway with a magnetic heading of 131.2 degrees would have this designation

13 (One Three)

500

This type of airport is always publicly owned

Commercial airport