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| Aircraft approach catagories: Whats catagory A? |
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| Aircraft approach catagories: Whats catagory B? |
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| greater than 91 knots, but less than 121 knots |
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| Aircraft approach catagories: Whats catagory C? |
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| greater than 121 knots, but less than 141 knots |
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| Aircraft approach catagories: Whats catagory D? |
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| greater than 141 knots, but less than 166 knots |
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| Aircraft approach catagories: Whats catagory E? |
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| Describe touchdown zone lighting? |
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| 2 rows of light bars symmetrically located center of the runway at 100 foot intervals extending 3000 feet |
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| Describe runway centerline lighting? |
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| flush light on the centerline every 50 feet starting/ending 75 feet from the approach/departure end |
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| Describe threshold lighting? |
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| fixed green lights left and right of centerline |
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| Describe runway end identifier lighting (REILS)? |
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| 2 synchronized white flashing lights, one on each side of runway threshold |
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| Describe visual glide slope indicator lighting? |
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| uses colored lights to define a vertical approach path during final approach |
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| helo/vstol movement between surface and 100ftAGL speed of no more than 20kts |
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| helo/vstol movement between surface and 100ftAGL speed of no more than 20kts |
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| Define Approach clearence? |
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| Authorization by ATC to conduct an instrument approach |
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| imaginary point used by ATC to vector to the final approach course. Established one mile from the outer marker but no closer than 5 miles. |
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| imaginary point used by ATC to vector to the final approach course. Established one mile from the outer marker but no closer than 5 miles. |
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| Rotorcraft flight condition which the lifting rotor is driven entirely by air action |
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| portion of flight between takeoff and cruising speed |
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| On IFR flight plan, with ATC approval, A/C clear of the clouds with at least one mile visibility may deviate from flight plan and proceed via visual referance to the surface |
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| Define class alpha airspace? |
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| 18,000 - FL600 including over the water with in 12NM of the continental US. Must be IFR |
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| Define class charlie airspace? |
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| surface - 4000' around airfields with operating towers and serviced by an approach control. Must have 2 way comms, and VFR aircraft are only seperated from IFR aircraft |
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| Define class delta airspace? |
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| surface - 2500ft around operating control towers. No VFR seperation |
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| Define class echo airspace? |
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| All airspace no currently defined under A, B, C, and D |
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| helo/vstol taxi above the surface in ground effect less than 20 knots |
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| Define ILS/Instrument landing systems? |
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| precision approach system consisting of localizer, glideslope, outer/middle markers, and approach lights |
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| Define Emergency safe altitudes? |
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| Altitudes on approach charts providing 1000 feet of clearence with in 100 miles of the navigational facility. (2000 feet in mountains) |
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| Define side step manuever? |
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| visual manuever completed at the end of an IFR flight to permit a straight in landing on a parellel runway not more than 1200' either side |
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| On a IFR flight plan, pilot may proceed visually, must have the airfield in sight or the preceeding aircraft in sight at all times. Must be under ATC approval in VFR conditions. |
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