AAAE CM- All Combined Module Questions | 600 Questions with 100% Correct Answers | Verified | 2023 | 103 Pages
AAAE CM- All Combined Module
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US Government hires private contractors to carry mail by air. Represents the start of aviation. –
✔✔Air Mail Act of 1925 (Kelly Act)
The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) was charged with these three things: – ✔✔”1) Making
Safety rules
2) Conducting aircraft investigations
3) economic regulation of airlines”
This Act split the CAA into two agencies, the CAA and the CAB. – ✔✔Reorganization Act of
1940
What phased out CAB economic regulation of airlines? – ✔✔”Airline Deregulation Act of 1978
The Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) would control the economics of the airline industry for
nearly four decades, approving air routes and regulating airfares, until finally being dissolved by
the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978″
Federal Aviation Act of 1958 – ✔✔”Driven by a the “”jet age,”” safety became a concern. A midair collision of 2 aircraft, killing 12 prompted the repeal of the Air Commerce Act. Federal
Aviation Act created the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), taking over rulemaking from the
CAB.
Renamed to Federal Aviation Administration in 1966 and moved from the Commerce
Department to the Department of Transportation.”
What government Act did Part 139 evolve from? – ✔✔Airport and Airway Development Act
(1970)
This establishes Airport Improvement Program (AIP) and establishes the National Airspace
System (NAS), which eventually becomes the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems
(NPIAS). NPIAS is reflected at the local airport level in the Airport Capital Improvement
Program. – ✔✔Airport and Airways Improvement Act of 1982
- How many enplanements per year does an airport have to have to be considered as commercial
service? – ✔✔2500 or more
This refers to the concept of a ‘Next Generation Air Transportation System’ or the ongoing
transformation of the NAS, moving from land based navigation to satellite. – ✔✔NextGen
“This Act endorsed the concept of a Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen).
NextGen is a multi-faceted series of initiatives designed to make air travel more efficient, more
secure, and safer overall.
“”Reauthorization of FAA Funding launches NEXTGEN””” – ✔✔Vision 100-Century of
Aviation Reauthorization Act of 2003.
What are the type types of airport land use? – ✔✔Aeronautical and Non-aeronautical
Publicly or privately owned airports with scheduled air carrier service with 2500 enplanements
per year are categorized as… – ✔✔included in the NPIAS
An airport that doesn’t meet qualifications to be part of the NPIAS may be considered if… –
✔✔”Other airports that do not meet the criteria may be included if they are:
- Part of a State Airport System Plan;
- Serving a community more than 30 minutes from the nearest NPIAS airport;
- Forecast to have 10 or more based aircraft within the next 5 years; and
- Currently being considered by an eligible public sponsor who is willing to undertake
ownership and development of the airport.
Airports that do not meet any of the aforementioned criteria may still be included through special
justification, such as: - A determination that the benefits of the airport will exceed its development costs;
- Written documentation describing isolation;
- Airports serving the needs of American Indian communities;
- Airports needed to support recreation areas; and
- Airports needed to develop or protect important national resources.”
What are the NPIAS airports and roughly how many are there? – ✔✔Commercial service, GA
Relivers, National Guard base of average airport, airport with US Mail contract; Roughly 3300
(3345)
What are the three measurements the FAA uses to gauge airport activity? – ✔✔1) Enplanements
2) Operations 3) Cargo Tonnage “butts, boxes, and bad landings”
What is an Commercial Service Airport? – ✔✔Publicly owned airport with at least 2500
passengers per year annual boarding that receives scheduled passenger service
This type of airport has more than 100 million pounds of total annual landed weight – ✔✔Cargo
Airport
*What is a shared airport? – ✔✔US Government owned airport co-located w/ a civil airport
specified under, and at which, portions of the movement areas and safety areas are shared by
both parties
*DOD and Civilians share an airfield but is owned by the DOD is called what? – ✔✔”Joint Use
Airport
Tip: “”Owned by the Joint Chiefs”””
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