What document, that provides information to the pilot, must be updated on an annual basis? - Answer- Airport Facility Directory
What is the NPIAS? -
... [Show More] Answer- Plan that identifies 3,300+ public airports, their role, and amounts and types of airport development eligibility (AIP)
What are the FAA principles related to airports? - Answer- Safe and efficient
Affordable
Flexible & Expandable
Permanent
Maintain a balance
Support national objectives
Extensive
Why are state and/or regional plans conducted? - Answer- To form a connected system of transportation
What are the steps of an airport master plan? - Answer- Technical Report
Summary Report
ALP
Web Page
Public Info Kit
What are the goals of public involvement and environmental reviews during the master plan update? - Answer- Balance the need for stakeholder involvement with the costs and time
What does the existing conditions tell the airport operator? - Answer- Historical review of the airport and its facilities, airspace structures and NAVAIDS, land use, activity and socioeconomic factors
What are the various methods of forecasting, the factors that affect the forecasts, and the forecast models - Answer- Factors:
Economic characteristic
Demographics
Geographic attributes
Aviation related factors
Other factors
Methods:
Regression Analysis - ties demand to enplanements, population and income
Trend Analysis and Extrapolation - Historical pattern
Market Share Analysis - local forecasts represent shares of larger forecasts
Smoothing - focuses on recent trends and conditions
Whats the difference between Facility Requirements and the Forecasts? - Answer- Facility Requirements compare the current facilities to the forecasted demand of the facilities
What is the function of the Facilities Implementation Plan? - Answer- List of potential projects to meet the Facility Requirements
What is the function of the Financial Feasibility Analysis? - Answer- Projects the impact the projects will have on operating revenues and expenses, etc.
What is a Safety Area and why does it exist? - Answer- Rectangular area including runway or taxiway to use in an event of an undershoot, overshoot or excursion
What is the function of the Runway Protection Zone (RPZ)? - Answer- Designed to protect the final approach areas
What is the function of the Obstacle Free Zone (OBZ)? - Answer- Extends 200 feet beyond each runway and 150 feet high to represent clear airspace
What is the function of the Object Free Area (OFA)? - Answer- Nothing except fixed by function, frangible or mobile
Ground area centered on runway
Explain how Stopways and Clearways are used - Answer- Stopways - used to support and minimize damage to an airplane in the event of an overrun
Clearways - end of a runway suitable for use in calculating aircraft takeoff performance
Why are Declared Distanced sometimes used? - Answer- For takeoff performance
What are taxiway design principles? - Answer- Main Gear Width
Cockpit to Main Gear Distance
3 types of aprons - Answer- 1. Terminal - passenger and cargo
2. Remote - for Remain Overnight parking or storage, also known as hardstands
3. Hangar - surface in front of a hangar used for aircraft movement
What is a Stand Guidance System? - Answer- Visual aids for aircraft parking locations
What are heliport design principles? - Answer- Maximum Wight/Minimum Contact Area
Rotor Diameter
Describe the construction safety meeting process - Answer- 1. Pre-design - discuss parameters (pre-bids)
2. Design
3. Preconstruction - discuss phasing, security, labor, safety
4. Construction
5. Inspection
5 imaginary surfaces - Answer- PATCH
1. Primary surface - centered on runway 200 ft past runway end
2. Approach surface - 200 ft from the runway end outward from the primary surface up to 50,000 ft
3. Transitional Surface - Extends upward at a 7:1 ration
4. Conical Surface - perimeter of horizontal surface up to 4,000 ft at 20:1
5. Horizontal Surface - level plane at 150 ft.
Difference between 7460-1 and 7460-2? - Answer- -1: Notice of proposed construction or alteration
-2: Actual Construction or alteration (popped up)
What are options the FAA could take related to an identified hazard to air navigation? What wont they do? - Answer- FAA will request the airport or obstruction owner to remove, light, mark the hazard or relocate threshold or raise minimums
3 components of the terminal system - Answer- 1. Flight interface
2. Passenger Processing
3. Access Interface
Desires related to location and design? - Answer- Passengers - close parking and protection from weather
Airlines - short taxi distances and minimal runway crossings
FAA - Terminal building not interfere
Airport - Efficient HVAC, Asthetic and close business community
3 types of airports - Answer- 1. O/D - high percentage of local and turnaround flights
2. Transfer - significant enplaned passengers transferring
3. Through - HIgh originating passengers/low originating flights
How much terminal space is available for rent? - Answer- 55%
How much space is usable by concessions? - Answer- 15-25%
What are the landside planning assumptions? - Answer- Curb length - 20 taxis, 25 private, 30 limos, 50 public bus
Parking - 1,000 to 1,400 parking spaces per 1,000,000 annual originating passengers
What are the 5 types of horizontal distribution models related to terminal design? - Answer- Simple, Linear, Concourses, Pier, Satellite
Explain common use and its advantages - Answer- Efficient use of space, reduced expenses, reduction of ticket counters
Design principles of wayfinding? - Answer- Location, Conspicuous, Comprehensible, Legible, Concise
3 types of FIS facilities - Answer- 1. Custom Accelerated Passenger Processing Service - two step, slowest
2. One stop - combined steps
3. Red-Green - nothing to declare proceed through
Whats the FAA's position on co-located ARFF/SRE facilities? - Answer- Can be centralized at smaller airports due to staffing
What's ADA? - Answer- Disabilities
What piece of legislation started environmental awareness in the US? - Answer- NEPA (1969)
What is the FAA responsible for related to environmental actions? - Answer- ALP approvals
Federal funding requests
AIP funded maintenance projects
PFC approvals
What is the airport operator responsible for related to environmental actions? - Answer- 1. Reviews potentially affected environmental resources
2. Special purpose laws
3. Consults with the FAA
3 types of ALP environmental approval? - Answer- Unconditional - approved
Conditional - design good, enviro. not
Mixed - short term good, long term not
Categorical exclusion - Answer- some projects by their very nature are unlikely to have an environmental impact
Environmental Assessment - Answer- little to no impact expected, "hard look"
Environmental Impact Statement - Answer- impacts are expected and mitigation measures may be necessary
FONSI - Answer- Finding of No Significant Impact - mitigation would not reduce environmental impacts below applicable thresholds
Who does the EA? EIS? - Answer- EA - AO
EIS - FAA
What is the airport priority related to environmental compliance? - Answer- protecting the environment and protecting the airport and managing its liability
What is a good-faith-effort? - Answer- Systematic program for ensuring regulatory compliance
What is the best means for ensuring tenant and contractor compliance with environmental law? - Answer- Establish specific criteria
What is EMS? - Answer- Environmental Management Systems serves a strategic plan for addressing environmental matters
What are the air quality issues related to airport operations? - Answer- 25 percent of airports in nonattainment areas
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