,The advancement exam for PO1 is administered on the first ______ of March and on the first _______ of
September - correct answersTuesday/Thursday
An operation commander may authorize a delay of no more than how many days in the administration
of examinations for sea going or aviation units operating in company or based outside continental US,
provided candidates have no means of communication with personnel who take the examination in the
interim? - correct answers10 days
What is a condition of being threatened by serious and/or imminent danger and of requiring immediate
assistance? - correct answersDistress
What is a condition concerning the security of a ship, aircraft or other vehicle, or of some person on
board or within sight, but which does not require immediate assistance? - correct answersUrgency
What safety is that condition which necessitates the transmission of a message concerning the safety of
navigation or providing important meteorological warnings? - correct answersSafety
What traffic shall have absolute priority over all other transmissions? - correct answersDistress
What traffic shall have priority over all othe communications except distress? - correct answersUrgency
In cases of distress, urgency or safety transmissions by radiotelephony they shall be made slowly and
distinctly, each word being clearly pronounced to facilitate what? - correct answersTranscription
What is the service between aeronautical stations (normally a land station but may be placed onboard a
ship or an earth satellite) and aircraft stations or between aircraft stations in which survival craft stations
may also participate? - correct answersAeronautical Mobile Service
What is the service between coast stations and ship stations, or between ship stations, in which survival
craft stations may also participate? - correct answersMaritime Mobile Service
,The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System is administered by who? - correct answersInternational
Maritime Organization (IMO)
In a voice distress signal the word MAYDAY is pronounced as which French expression? - correct
answers"m'aider"
The voice alarm signal consists of two substantially sinusoidal audio frenquency tones transmitted
alternatively. One tone has a frequency of 2200 Hz and the other 1300 Hz. The duration of each tone is
how long? - correct answers250 milliseconds
The purpose of what signal is to alert the operators on watch or to activate 2182 kHz watchkeeping
recievers to warn operators that distress call or message is to follow? - correct answersAlarm signal
The frequency 2182 kHz (and it's supplementary frequencies 4125 and 6215 kHz) is the International
Distress frequency for what? - correct answersVoice
What frequency is the International Distress, Safety and Calling frequency for the maritime mobile VHF
radiotelephone service? - correct answers156.8 MHz
Immediately before a crash landing or a forced landing (on land or sea) of an aircraft, as well as before
total abandonment of a ship or an aircraft, the radio equipment should be set for what type of
emmission? - correct answersContinuous
When a station in distress has delegated control of distress working to another station the person in
charge of the station in distress should, when he considers silence no longer justified, immediately
inform the what? - correct answersControlling station
All other stations which hear the Urgency signal are to continue to listen for at least how long? - correct
answersThree minutes
What indicates that the station is about to transmit a message containing an important navigational or
meteorological warning? - correct answersSafety signal
, An aircraft seeing but not understanding ground signals by day will fly a complete right circle and by
night will make red flashes with what? - correct answersSignal lamp
When making ground signals you shoudl make them not less than how long in length? - correct
answers8 feet
In the absence of any response to this initial transmission the aircraft, ship or survival craft will
preferably inititate a distress call on the Internationall Aeronautical Emergency Frequency 121.5 MHz or
on the Distress and Emergency Frequency of what? - correct answers243.0 MHz
The International Distress and Calling frequency for voice on what frequency is used by mobile stations,
survival craft and emergency postition-indicating radiobeacons using frequencies in the authorized
bands between 1605 and 4000 kHz when requesting assistance from the maritime services? - correct
answers2182 kHz
Which frequencies are used to supplement the carrier frequency 2182 kHz for Distress and Safety
purposes and for call and reply? - correct answers4125 kHz and 6215 kHz
What frequency is used for the International Aeronautical Emergency Frequency for aircraft and those
aeronautical stations primarily concerned with the safety and regularity of flight along national or
international civil air routes and having equipment in the 118-136 MHz band? - correct answers121.5
MHz
What frequency is for international use by the Maritime Mobile VHF Radiotelephone Service as a
distress, safety and calling frequency? - correct answers156.8 MHz
What frequency is agreed internationally for use by equipment provided for use in Survival Craft
Stations, which is capable of operatiing on bands between 235 and 328.6 MHz? - correct answers243
MHz
Which frequencies are common to both the Aeronautical Mobile (Route) Service (Aem(R)) and the
Aeronautical Mobile (Off-Route) (Aem(OR)) Service and are available to all mobile units at the scene of a
search and rescue operation, and by fixed stations for communicating with aircraft proceeding to or
from a search and rescue scene? - correct answers3023 kHz and 5680 kHz
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