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AAAE Certified Member Study Guide: Airport Management Fundamentals, Exams of Nursing

University of Cambridge Nursing

This study guide provides a comprehensive overview of key concepts and principles related to airport management, focusing on the role of airport sponsors, faa regulations, and the importance of maintaining a balance between public entity and business enterprise functions. It includes multiple-choice questions and answers, covering topics such as airport regulations, airport case law, airport sponsors, airport customers, airport activity measurements, airport organizational structures, airport revenue generation, and airport land use.

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The AAAE Certified Member Modules are materials airport managers can use as...

- Airport regulation

- Airport case Law

- Final authoritative documents

- A daily reference and field guide - correct answer A daily reference and field

guide

Which statement is False?

- Each Airport has its own unique geography

- it is impossible to accurately capture how each public-use airport in the US operates at all levels of its

position

- When you've seen one airport, you've seen one airport

- Each airport has the same operating characteristics - correct answer Each

airport has the same operating characteristics

When using the term "Airport Sponsor", the authors of the AAAE modules are referring to the...

- Airport director

- Governing body

- Federal Aviation Administration

- Airport management - correct answer Governing body

An airport has many customers, however, the airport must serve the...

- Community

- Stakeholders

- Pilot

- Airlines - correct answer Pilot

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The AAAE Certified Member Modules are materials airport managers can use as...

Airport regulation
Airport case Law
Final authoritative documents
A daily reference and field guide - correct answer A daily reference and field guide Which statement is False?
Each Airport has its own unique geography
it is impossible to accurately capture how each public-use airport in the US operates at all levels of its position
When you've seen one airport, you've seen one airport
Each airport has the same operating characteristics - correct answer Each airport has the same operating characteristics When using the term "Airport Sponsor", the authors of the AAAE modules are referring to the...
Airport director
Governing body
Federal Aviation Administration
Airport management - correct answer Governing body An airport has many customers, however, the airport must serve the...
Community
Stakeholders
Pilot
Airlines - correct answer Pilot

In 1970, The Airport and Airway Development Act brought about all except the following

Airport and Airway Trust Fund
Planning Grant Program (PGP)
Airport Development Aid Program (ADAP)
National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) - correct answer National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) (T/F) The FAA does not include in its planning or funding decision-making any private airports unless they are publicly accessible or military airports that do not host any civilian operations. - correct answer True The National Plan of integrated Airport Systems (NPIAS) identifies 3,345 public-use airports that are important to the national air transportation system and eligible to receive grant funds under the FAA Airport Improvement Program (AIP). An airport can be included in the NPIAS for all of the following reasons except...
GA reliever airport
Serving a community that is at least 15 minutes from the nearest NIPIAS airport
Publicly owned
Part of a State Airport System - correct answer Serving a community that is at least 15 minutes from the nearest NPIAS airport Commercial service airports are grouped into two major categories
National and Regional
Civilian and Military
Large hub and small hub
Primary and non-primary - correct answer Primary and non-primary A passenger enplanement can be defined as...
A passenger using a handicap ramp
A take-off and a landing
A passenger boarding a commercial flight

100% in excess of Fair Market Value (FMV)
50% - correct answer 100% Airports are distinctly different from traditional municipal operations in that they can operate as
Centralized governments
Federal agencies
L.L.Cs
Stand-alone enterprises - correct answer Stand-alone enterprises Generally, airport authority board members are compensated as follows:
$1 a year to comply with federal and state labor laws
Fair Market Value
Minimum Wage
Do not receive compensation and serve in a voluntary capacity - correct answer Do not receive compensation and serve in a voluntary capacity Each type of airport of ownership has advantages and disadvantages. What is a potential disadvantage to the municipality owned structure?
Power to tax and issue bonds
access to other city/county departments
Can be viewed as another department of the city/county
Access to larger sources of funding - correct answer Can be viewed as another department of the City/County The debate over the status of the airport as either a public entity or a business enterprise will likely continue for decades, but the simplest understanding is that...
An airport is a government entity run by elected officials
An airport is a Department of Transportation sub-organization
An airport is a public entity that is run like a business

An airport is an enterprise fund with many departments - correct answer An airport is a public entity that is run like a business The most common positions at an airport that are outside of the vertical structure are the
Finance and administration personnel
Operations and maintenance positions
Legal counsel and auditor
Certification inspector and regulator - correct answer Legal counsel and auditor The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 resulted in the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001 moving the airport and aircraft operator security regulations from the FAA to the newly created
Transportation Security Administration
Civil Aviation Office
Dept. of Homeland Security
National Transportation Security Board - correct answer Transportation Security Administration As a new airport manager trying to inventory all applicable airport laws, and regulations, he or she be careful not to omit which form of hidden regulation?
FARs
FAA orders
Cert. Alerts
Grant Assurances - correct answer Grant Assurances The Flight Standards District Office, commonly known as FSDO, is responsible for
Food safety on the concourses
Flow of air traffic and NAVAID maintenance
Enforcing laws for aircraft and pilot certification and licensing
Regulating all aviation safety in the US - correct answer Enforcing laws for aircraft and pilot certification and licensing

The airport property map does all of the following except

Show funding source used to acquire tracts
Show proposed airport development
Indicate use of land
Indicate how tracts were acquired - correct answer Show proposed airport development Defending the airport from incompatible off-airport land use starts with which document?
Airport Master Plan
ALD Drawing
Airport Rules and Regulations
"Exhibit A" Property Map - correct answer Airport Master Plan While the FAA has traditionally opposed residential land use on and around airports, all of the following are allowable except
Aircraft rescue and fire fighting facilities with 24-hour coverage requirement
Finance manager sleeping room during single-audit
Temporary pilot or crew rest facilities
Air ambulance operations - correct answer Finance manager sleeping room during single-audit Kansas State University's Polytechnic Campus is an "off-airport" entity and is a perfect example of a
Non-aeronautical user
Through-the-fence-operator
Exclusive right tenant
Fixed Base Operator - correct answer Through-the-fence operator Grant Assurance 19 requires the airport to be operating all times in a safe and serviceable condition. The two primary guiding documents that serve as airport Sponsor tools in this endeavor are the

Airport Emergency Plan and Certification Manual
Minimum Standards and Airport Rules and Regulations
Airport Master Plan and "Exhibit A" Property Map
Airport Layout Plan and Drawing - correct answer Minimum Standards and Airport Rules and Reguations The FAA's hangar use policy was clarified in 2016 whereby it stated that aircraft hangars should be used to store aircraft, which is an approved aeronautical use. If this policy is violated, the federal government is essentially subsidizing
A non-aeronautical function on an airport
Airport hangar maintenance
An aeronautical use
Airfield operations - correct answer A non-aeronautical function on an airport Grant Assurance 39 relates to competitive access for air carriers. If an Airport Sponsor is already served by one air carrier and doesn't have existing facilities to accommodate a 2nd interested air carrier in establishing service, the Airport Sponsor
Has met its obligation if there are no existing facilities remaining to add another airline
Should report this to the Secretary of Transportation
Should work to accommodate the interested air carrier
can prohibit the new air carrier from operating at the airport - correct answer Should work to accommodate the interested air carrier Far Part 43, Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, Rebuilding, and Alteration provides pilots the ability to perform maintenance on any aircraft they own or operate, provided the plane is not used to conduct
Commercial flight operations
IFR flight operations
TTF flights
Flights with passengers other than the pilot - correct answer Commercial Flight Operations

The airport relies only on its revenue streams for operational expenses - correct answer The airport relies only on its revenue streams for operational expenses The FAA's Rates and Charges Policy provides comprehensive guidance on the legal requirement that airport fees be (select all that apply)
Not unjustly discriminatory
Reasonable
Sweetheart deal
Fair - correct answer Not unjustly discriminatory, Reasonable, Fair Fair market fees for use of the airport are required for non-aeronautical use of the airport and are
Required for non-airfield aeronautical use
Optional for non-airfield aeronautical use - correct answer Optional for non- airfield aeronautical use The Airport Sponsor would not need to recieve Fair Market Value (FMV) if it leased property to which of the following
Corporation
Limited Liability Company
Angel Flights
Sole Propietorship - correct answer Angel Flights The residual method of rates and charges setting can best be described as
The airport applies excess non-aeronautical revenue to the airfield costs to reduce air carrier fees.
A hybrid between a compensatory and rate-based method
The airport is required to make sure the expenses do not exceed the revenue received
The airport assumes all liability for airport costs and retains all airport revenue and the user is charged only for the cost of the aeronautical facility - correct answer The airport applies excess non-aeronautical revenue to the airfield costs to reduce air carrier fees.

(T/F) The FAA will not allow airport improvement program grant funding to be used for Value Engineered projects - correct answer False There are many IT systems at airports. All the systems below are examples of common IT systems at airports except

Airfield lighting
Flight information Displays
Majority-of-interest (MII)
Property and Asset Management Systems - correct answer Majority-of- interest (MII) Most will agree that a __________ year lease, is a life-time lease
75
99
65
35 - correct answer 99 A current trend in airport concessions at medium to large-hub airports are the
Duty-free shops
Local Mom & Pop Shops
Self-serve coffee shops
Shopping center and/or brand-name concessions - correct answer Shopping center and/or brand-name concessions All of the following are common types of lease agreements except
Modified gross
Straight
Revaluation
Graduated
Percentage - correct answer Modified gross

(T/F) FAA Airport Improvement Program Funding and Passenger Facility Charges were designed under the concept that the users of the aviation systems, as opposed to all citizens, would pay for the aviation transport systems. - correct answer True The AIP process is regulated under FAA order 5100-38C otherwise known as the Airport Improvement Program Handbook. Periodically the FAA will issue __________ to add or revise guidance about the administration of AIP related to the AIP Handbook.

Advisory Circulars (AC)
FARs
Program Guidance Letters (PGL)
Airport Directives (ADs) - correct answer Program Guidance Letters (PGL) The Law requires that AIP entitlement funds be apportioned by formula each year. The apportionment, depending on the type of airport, can be based upon all of the following except
Passenger enplanements
Aircraft operations
Fuel flowage
Amount of cargo - correct answer Fuel flowage The funds remaining after the entitlement apportionment are known as
Slush fund
Discretionary funds
Set-aside funds
Reliever funds - correct answer Discretionary funds (T/F) With the ADO being responsible for carrying out the grant process, it would be in the airport executive's best interest to have their local government lobby and influence the ADO federal employees.
correct answer False

(T/F) PFC's have caused problems for bond rating companies because the legislation creating PFC's allowed the FAA to terminate PFC authorization under certain circumstances. - correct answer True Which of the following is an advantage to issuing General Obligation Bonds for financing airport capital improvements?

Typically issued at a lower interest rate than other types of bonds
Secured by the revenue generated by the indebted facility
Payment is backed by the full faith and credit of the airport lessee
Can be issued for up to 40 years - correct answer Typically issued at a lower interest rate than other types of bonds The Air Traffic Control (ATC) system in our industry is seeing significant changes due to the use of
Localizer
VORs
GPS
Glideslope - correct answer GPS (T/F) Planning is a critical component in maintaining the airport as a valuable community asset. Airport planning is performed at the national, state, regional and local levels of government and industry. - correct answer True The federal plan for airports provides the federal government perspective on the role of each public-use airport in the national air transportation system. This plan is known as the
National Master Plan
National Plan of Integrated Airport System
Federal Airport Improvement Program
State Aviation System Plan - correct answer National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems Which of the following are the primary areas of an airport (check all that apply)
Roadside

Unconditional
Conditional
Mixed - correct answer Unconditional, Conditional, Mixed The FAA defines "near-term" as a project that is
Ripe for decision
Shovel-ready
Is designed with plans on the shelf
Ready within 1 year - correct answer Ripe for decision Airport sponsors keep pilots up-to-date on airport data and information using the following means (check all that apply)
7460-
NPIAS
NOTAMs
Airport Facility Directory - correct answer NOTAMs, Airport Facility Directory The projects listed in the NPIAS fall into which three general categories of work. (Select all 3)
Physical Component
Purpose
Airspace
Type of work - correct answer Type of work, Physical Component, Purpose (T/F) The Airport Master Plan can set forth the direction of the airport for one to two decades. - correct answer True (T/F) An Airport Sponsor completed a Master Plan 6 years ago and has been following the program, including the capital improvement projects as outlined in the plan. A new opportunity emerged that is not in the Master Plan or on the approved ALP. The Sponsor should not be surprised when the project is not immediately eligible for AIP funding. - correct answer True

The FAA _____________ the Forecast and Airport Layout Plan as part of the Airport Master Plan.

Produces
Approves
Drafts
Accepts - correct answer Approves When planning improvements to an airport, it is necessary to select one or more "Design Aircraft". Generally, the Design Aircraft is a composite aircraft representing a collection of aircraft classified by which three parameters? (Select all 3)
Airplane Design Group (ADG)
Taxiway Edge Safety Margin (TESM)
Taxiway Design Group (TDG)
Aircraft Approach Category (AAC) - correct answer Airplane Design Group (ADG), Taxiway Design Group (TDG), Aircraft Approach Category (AAC) Airports can be divided into 3 major areas. Which is not considered a major area?
Terminal
Landside
Airside
Movement Area - correct answer Movement Area (T/F) The Movement Area generally corresponds to those areas that are under the positive control of ATCT. - correct answer True All of the following are basic types of approaches except
Precision
Missed
Non-precision
Visual - correct answer Missed

(T/F) Heliports located at public use facilities are subject to the same FAA part 139 requirements as airports. Therefore, they cannot conduct commercial passenger operations at GA airports. - correct answer False (T/F) FAR Part 77 has been established for the safety and preservation of navigable airspace. However, this regulation does not give FAA the authority to prevent construction or alteration to a structure that might impede navigable airspace. - correct answer True The passenger terminal system is composed of which three elements (select all 3).

Flight interface
Concessionaire interface
Passengers processing
Access Interface - correct answer Flight Interface, Passenger Processing, Access interface The FAA ALP approval process requires an environmental determination. This decision could result in all of the following except
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
Environmental Order
Categorical Exclusion
Environmental Assessment (EA) - correct answer Environmental order The heaviest concentrations at certain times of the day are known as the
Peak day demand
Peak volume
Design volume
Peak hour demand - correct answer Peak hour demand Select the three categories of passengers
Non-revenue passengers

Leisure travelers
Business travelers
International travelers - correct answer Leisure travelers, Business travelers, International travelers Airports can be classified by the dominant type of passenger traffic. Origination / Destination (O&D) airports can best be described as having
An average of 30-60 minutes of aircraft ground servicing time
A low requirement for departure lounge space, curb frontage, ticketing, security, and baggage handling facilities
70-90% of passengers beginning or ending their travel at the airport and requiring maximum handling services for checking and claiming baggage
A high percentage of originating passengers combined with a low percentage of originating flights - correct answer 70-90% of passengers beginning or ending their travel at the airport and requiring maximum handling services for checking and claiming baggage Non-point (NPS) pollution is commonly associated with runoff from
Aircraft de-icing operations
ARFF used in aircraft rescue and firefighting
Agriculture
Airport vehicle maintenance - correct answer Agriculture Short-term parking at commercial service airports is typically classified as
1 hour or less and accounts for 30% of traffic
30 minutes or less and accounts for 75% of traffic
Three hours or less and may account for 80% of traffic
20 minutes or less and accounts for 80% of traffic - correct answer Three hours or less and may account for 80% of traffic All of the following are types of ticket and baggage check-in facilities except
Pre-check

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