Signed on October 12, 1922, the Warsaw Convention has become one of the most important documents in international commercial air transpiration. - answer-False
The United Kingdom and the United States met and negotiated a bilateral understanding of the development of international air transport. ...
AVSC 3400 study guide questions and
answers
Signed on October 12, 1922, the Warsaw Convention has become one of the most
important documents in international commercial air transpiration. - answer-
✔False
The United Kingdom and the United States met and negotiated a bilateral
understanding of the development of international air transport. - answer-✔The
Bermuda Agreement
The US has been a party to what convention since 1934? - answer-✔The Warsaw
Convention
The ICAO is composed of how many member states? - answer-✔152
The rules and regulations of which convention were adopted by the principal
European nations? - answer-✔NOT The Havana Convention
ICAO Annex 18 contains the general rules about how dangerous goods should be
packed and transported and the responsibilities of various parties involved with
their transportation. - answer-✔True
Since the early days among international jurist, two principal theories of national
sovereignty of air-space have existed. These two theories include: 1. Individual
states have the right of sovereignty over the airspace over their soil and 2. Air is
free and states have no authority over it. - answer-✔True
,How high should registration marks be painted or otherwise permanently affixed
on the wings of an aircraft? - answer-✔50 cm
The ICAO council members are composed of how many contracting states? -
answer-✔33
The Headquarters for ICAO are in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. - answer-✔False
The direction of the great circle route makes an angle of about _____ with the
meridian of New York, about _____ with the meridian of Iceland, and still greater
angle with the meridian of London. - answer-✔About 50° with the meridian of
New York; About 90° with the meridian of Iceland
This projection is neither perspective, equal area, nor conformal. - answer-
✔Azimuthal Equidistant Projection
The term knots is used to express "statute miles per hour" and MPH is used for
"nautical miles per hour". - answer-✔False
The only cylindrical projection used for navigation is the Mercator. - answer-
✔True
This projection is a perspective-conformal projection of the sphere. - answer-
✔Stereographic Projection
Choose the term(s) which are used to express the horizontal direction of one
terrestrial point from another. - answer-✔All of the terms
, A projection can be defined as a systematic construction of lines on a plane surface
to represent the parallels of latitude and the meridians of longitude of the earth or a
section of the earth. - answer-✔True
Classified according to the point of tangency of the plane of projection. - answer-
✔Gnomonic Projections
Azimuth is the true direction to a point in space. - answer-✔True
The two methods of projection used are called _____ and _____. - answer-
✔Mathematical and perspective
A gyrocompass error caused by forces applied to the axis of the gyro wheel. -
answer-✔Precession
The Doppler Effect applies to which of the following wave motion? - answer-✔All
of the answers are correct
The intended horizontal direction of travel over the surface of the earth, expressed
as an angle measured clockwise from true north through 360°. - answer-✔True
Course
The horizontal component of the actual path of the aircraft over the surface of the
earth. - answer-✔Track
The angle formed at any point between the magnetic meridian and the geographic
meridian is called? - answer-✔Magnetic Variation
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