Airports, Airspace & ATC

1. Airports, Airspace & ATC

2. Runway & Taxi Markings • What color are all runway markings?

3. Runway & Taxi Markings • What color are all runway markings? • White

4. Runway & Taxi Markings • What color are all taxiways, closed areas, hazardous areas and holding positions?

5. Runway & Taxi Markings • What color are all taxiways, closed areas, hazardous areas and holding positions? • Yellow

6. Provides a visual cue to permit taxiing along a designated path. Marking may be enhanced on light-colored pavement by outlining with a black border. Taxiway Marking

7. Runway & Taxi Markings • What are the three types of usage that determine how a runway will be marked?

8. Runway & Taxi Markings • What are the three types of usage that determine how a runway will be marked? • Visual Runway • Nonprecision instrument runway • Precision instrument runway

9. Runway & Taxi Markings • How is a visual runway marked?

10. VISUAL RUNWAY • Designation marking • Centerline marking • Optional marking • International commercial transport require threshold marking

11. VISUAL RUNWAY • Optional Marking • 4,000 ft or longer used by jet aircraft require aiming point marking • Side stripes may be added if necessary

12. Runway & Taxi Markings • How is a nonprecision instrument runway marked?

13. Runway & Taxi Markings • How is a nonprecision instrument runway marked? • Designation marking • Centerline marking • Threshold markings • Aim point marker

14. Runway & Taxi Markings • How is a precision instrument runway marked?

15. Runway & Taxi Markings • Designation marking • Centerline marking • Threshold markings • Aim point marker • Touchdown zone marker

16. Runway & Taxi Markings • What is a displaced threshold?

17. Runway & Taxi Markings • What is a displaced threshold? • A threshold that is not at the beginning of the paved runway

18. Runway & Taxi Markings • For what purposes can you use the paved area before a displaced threshold that is marked by arrows?

19. Runway & Taxi Markings • Available for taxi, takeoff and a landing rollout from the opposite direction but not for landing

20. Runway & Taxi Markings • For what are chevrons used?

21. Runway & Taxi Markings • For what are chevrons used? • To show pavement areas aligned with the runway that are unusable for landing, takeoff and taxiing

22. Runway & Taxi Markings • What is the name of the bar that separates a runway that has a displaced threshold from a taxiway or an area marked by chevrons that precedes the runway

23. Runway & Taxi Markings • What is the name of the bar that separates a runway that has a displaced threshold from a taxiway or an area marked by cheverons that precedes the runway • Demarcation Bar

24. Runway & Taxi Markings • What color are surface painted location signs?

25. Runway & Taxi Markings • What color are surface painted location signs? • Black background with yellow inscription

26. Runway & Taxi Markings • What color are mandatory instruction signs?

27. Runway & Taxi Markings • What color are mandatory instruction signs? • White characters on a red background

28. HOLDING POSITIONS SIGNS At runway / runway intersections Do not cross unless clearance has been received. AIRPORT SIGNS 4-22

29. AIRPORT SIGNS

30. Edge of Protected Area for Runway Identifies the boundary of the runway protected area Used to judge when the aircraft is clear of the protected area. AIRPORT SIGNS

31. AIRPORT SIGNS

32. Edge of ILS Critical Area Identifies the boundary of the ILS critical area. Use this sign as a guide to judge when the aircraft is clear of the ILS critical area. AIRPORT SIGNS

33. Airport Lighting • What type of Approach Light System are use on visual runway

34. Airport Lighting • None • ALS provide the basic means to transition from instrument flight to visual flight for landing. They will be used with precision and nonprecision runways.

35. Lighting • What color are taxiway centerline lights installed at some airports and used during low visibility conditions?

36. Green in-pavement lights to assist taxiing aircraft in darkness and in low visibility conditions. Taxiway Centerline Lights

37. Lights • Describe Runway End Identifier Lights and when they are effective?

38. Description • Consists of a pair of synchronized flashing lights located laterally on each side of the runway threshold to provide rapid and positive identification of the approach end of a particular runway

39. Effective • Effective for • Identification of a runway surrounded by a preponderance of other lighting • Identification of a runway which lacks contrast with surrounding terrain

40. Effective • Identification of a runway during reduced visibility

41. Lights • Describe land and hold short lights.

42. In-pavement white, pulsating lights installed across the runway at the hold short point. Land and Hold Short Lights

43. Lights • When ON departing pilots and pilots cleared to land using the full length of the runway should ignore the lights

44. Lights • How can you identify a rotating beacon at a military airport?

45. Lights • How can you identify a rotating beacon at a military airport? • Two whites and a green indicate a military airport

46. Lights • What color do you see when above the glide slope on a tri-colored approach slope indicator?

47. Lights • What color do you see when above the glide slope on a tri-colored approach slope indicator? • Amber

48. Wake Turbulance • In what configuration does an aircraft produce the most wake turbulence?

49. Wake Turbulence • In what configuration does an aircraft produce the most wake turbulence? • Clean, Slow and Heavy

50. Wake Turbulence • When departing behind a large aircraft, what wind condition required the maximum amount of caution?