Chp. 14 Airport Operations

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Where can you land on a marked off runway threshold?

After

displaced threshold

What can you use a relocated threshold for

Closed portion is not available for taking off or landing but can use for taxing. Will be indicated by yellow arrows.

Can you land on a displaced threshold arrow?

No, it is used for obstruction. For taxing, noise buffer, near a road, etc.

what do the yellow arrows indicate?

Overrun aka chevrons. For example, jet landing blows dirt and makes hole before runway if no chevron.

When a taxi way leads to two or more runways will be separated with

a dot 

runway hold postion

sold yellow line means

you cannot pass without ATC Clerance

dashed line means

you can pass with caution

“if it’s dashes you can dash it”

location sign “black background is where you’re at”

direction/taxi way sign

taxiway exit sign

do not enter sign

ISL means

Instrument holding system

ISL sign that you will see on the ground next to the Instrument landing sign

When do you not cross ISL

bad weather

Civilian beacon lights

white and green flashing

Water airport beacon lights

white and yellow flashing

Heliport beacon light

white, green, yellow flashing

Military

two quick white flashing alternating with green

Daylight operations for beacons occurs:

when ceiling is 1000 and 3 statue miles

Daylight operations are

VASI means

visual approach slope indicator. Can be usefully detected four miles out.

indicates

on glide path

Red VASI means

too low

“red on red, you’ll soon be dead”

White VASI means

you’re too high

whi

Tricolor vasi:

blow red, on path green, above yellow

End or runway lighting

lateral red lights and flashing REILS

if you see red lights how many feet does the runway have left?

less than 1,000ft

how much runway is left when you see red and white alternating lights?

3000ft-1000ft

midline of taxiway lights is

green

along taxiway the light color is

blue

Pilot controlling lights use

PTT push to talk/radio

To control highest intensity available

hold PTT 7 times within 5 seconds

To control highest intensity available

7 times within 5 seconds

To control medium intensity available

5 times in 5 seconds

To control lower intensity available

3 times within 5 seconds

left wing beacon is

red

right wing beacon is

green

tail beacon is

white

small planes entering the traffic pattern must be at:

1000 agl unless otherwise noticed

When are you most likely to crash during final approach?

faster aircraft trying to overtake slower one (lower aircraft always has the right of way, can’t see above)

nontowered airports you should try to call out

10SM

Wind Sock

fly against the wind, always want to fly into the little end

Wind Tee

points into the wind, cant show wind activity

Tetrahedron

fly into big end, cant show wind activity

opposite of the windsock

LASHO land and hold short operations

asked by ATC but you can decline, students cannot participate in it

except when necessary for takeoff and landing, what is the minimum safe altitude for a pilot to operate an aircraft anywhere?

an altitude allowing, if power unit fails, an emergency landing without undue hazard to persons or property on the surface.

Except when necessary for takeoff and landing, what is the minimum safe altitude for a pilot to operate an aircraft over a congested area?

An altitude allowing of 1,000 ft. above the highest

obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2,000 ft.

Except when necessary for takeoff and

landing, what is the minimum safe altitude

for a pilot to operate an aircraft over other

than a congested area?

An altitude allowing of 500 ft. AGL, except over open

water or a sparsely populated area, which requires 500 ft.

from any person, vessel, vehicle, or structure.

When approaching to land on a runway

served by a visual approach slope indicator

(VASI), the pilot shall...

Maintain the altitude at or above the glide slope.

The numbers 9 and 27 on a runway indicate that the runway is oriented approximately...

090° and 270° magnetic.

review slides for diagram questions

yes, I will

UNICOM

nongovernment air/ground radio communication station that may provide airport information at public use airports where there are no tower or FSS

Who’s on UNICOM?

sometimes people who answer the radio are not pilots

How do you enter a nontowered airport?

always entered by pattern altitude. Entering the pattern depends on your arrival.

Downwind side of the pattern is to approach the course 45 degrees midfield

Upwind side, you can announce your intentions cross over midfield at least 500ft above pattern altitude (normally 1,500AGL). However, if there are large aircraft it is best to operate 2000ft AGL.

Complete a 2-mile scan for traffic and watch the descending pattern altitude, then turn right to enter 45-degree downwind leg midfield.

MULTICOM

for airports with no flight service station or UNICOM

What do you use when there is no tower, but Flight service station is open

communicate on CTAF common traffic advisory frequency

What do you use when tower has FSS but it’s closed

self-announce on Common traffic advisory frequency

What to communicate on when no tower or flight service station

self-announce on Common traffic advisory frequency

Threshold is how many bars

four

Touchdown is how many bars

three bars

The bars decrease indicating

how much runway space you have left

What traffic location pattern are you most likely to collide with another plane?

on downwind or final approach, generally with a faster aircraft overtaking a smaller one

10SM out of an airport with no control tower operating you should

communicate on radio as if there was a tower?

Default downwind is left, or right?

Left unless it says right

Usually only says right when there’s an obstruction

Congested areas

must be at an altitude of 1,000ft above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2,000ft of the aircraft

How high must you be around obstacles that are not congested areas?

500ft above ground level AGL

Where is the minimum Clerance anywhere else?

at sufficient altitudes to permit power-off landing without undo hazard to persons and property

transponder codes

7500 hijack

7600 can’t talk now

7700 emergencies