Airspaces
This airspace only requires a 2-way radio to enter.
What is Class D.
What type of airspace restriction follows POTUS, major sporting events, or events of equal magnitude?
What is Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFRs).
What does ICAO Stand for and what are the Annexes (Rules) we need to know?
What is "International Civil Aviation Organization,"
Rule 2: Rules of the Air
Rule 11: Air Traffic Services
(T/F) All States can add to laws in lieu of federal law.
What is false. (States can add laws on-top of federal law, but cannot replace it.)
(T/F) Wilderness Area is a request to all pilots.
This Airspace is referred to as an upside-down wedding cake with more than one shelf, and requires ADS-B out and a Mode-C Transponder.
What is Class B.
This type of airspace alerts pilots to hazardous activities in international airspace.
What is a Warning Area.
What does NOTAM stand for?
What is "Notice To Airmen." NOTAMs are messages of operations/conditions interfering with normal airport operations for personnel operating in the proximity of an airport
(T/F) Other industries besides aviation utilize airspace.
True. "Earthbound interests-such as the broadcasting industry, which has a need to erect tall signal transmission towers rising into navigable airspace-also compete for the right or privilege to use a share of this resource (Airspace)." (J. Hamilton et al., 2024)
What altitude are pilots requested to maintain when flying over wilderness areas?
What is 2,000ft AGL.
This Airspace is only allowed under an IFR Flight Plan, starting at 18,000ft MSL and goes through 60,000ft MSL.
What is Class A Airspace.
This airspace covers activities that are incompatible with safe flight (artillery, bombing, etc).
What is a Restricted Area.
What does SCATANA Stand for and what does it do?
"On September 9, 1950, congress directed CAA (pre-FAA) to develop and implement plans for security control of air traffic whenever US security is endangered." (J. Hamilton et al., 2024)
What is the "Administrative Procedure Act," and what does it do?
What is "The APA requires that the agency (FAA) to first publish a proposed regulatory change as "Notice of Proposed Rule-making" (NPRM) in the "Federal Register", and provide a reasonable opportunity for public comment before adoption." (J. Scott Hamilton et al., 2024)
How is a Wilderness Area identified on a VFR Sectional?
What is a blue-lined area with dots on the inner border?
What can Class G extend up to?
This airspace recommends extreme caution when active due to very fast military aircraft that fly very low.
What is a Military Operations Area.
What is the Uncrewed Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM), and what does it do?
"For Several years now, the FAA, NASA, and others have been working with industry partners to create a framework to allow for the exchange of data to enable drone flights beyond visual range up to 400ft AGL." (J. Hamilton et al., 2024)
What Association frequently weighs in to object to proposals to erect tall towers, set aside military airspace, etc?
What is the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA).
What caused congress in 1987 to initiate an "Interior Study in the Problem Regulations" over national parks?
What is Noise Complaints. (Noise complaints dropped by 80% after the creation of wilderness airspace).
What is 3 SM visibility, 1,000ft above clouds, 500ft below clouds, and 2,000ft horizontally away from clouds.
What is the Acronym that is used to identify all Special Use Airspaces?
What is "MCPRAWN?"
The 1919 "Convention Relating to the Regulation of Aeronautical Navigation" established that each country has sovereignty to its own airspace.
What can the FAA do if it expects a ruling to be controversial?
What is issuing an "Advance Notice of Proposed Rule-making." (ANPRM)
How much money does the air tours industry account for?
What is $250 Million USD.