ATC Study Guide Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2024/2025
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ATC Study Guide Exam 1 Questions & Answers 2024/2025
Know what the National Airspace System (NAS) AND be able to identify what is or isn't a component of the NAS - ANSWERSThe NAS is every person and thing required
to successfully get a plane from one location
to another
Airspace and ATS (...
ATC Study Guide Exam 1 Questions &
Answers 2024/2025
Know what the National Airspace System (NAS) AND be able to identify what is or isn't a component of
the NAS - ANSWERSThe NAS is every person and thing required
to successfully get a plane from one location
to another
Airspace and ATS (Air Traffic Service) Routes
- Navigational Aids (NAVAIDS)
- Airports or landing areas
- Aeronautical Charts
- Rules, regulations, and procedures
- Personnel and equipment
Know how the airspace within the NAS is divided into different classes - ANSWERSA,B,C,D,G
VOR
What they are, what they are used for, who uses them
What information is derived from each (bearing, distance, etc.)
Interrogator on aircraft, transponder on ground (VOR-DME)
VORTAC - ANSWERSFAA and Military developed
• VOR and TACAN
• Civilian use VOR for bearing and TACAN for DME
• Military use TACAN
TACAN - ANSWERSTactical Air Navigation (TACAN)
• Military
• Interrogator on aircraft, transponder on ground
- Provides both bearing and distance
- Uses single transmitter on ground
• Provides BOTH bearing AND distance
what is NextGen - ANSWERS- Current NAS modernization program.
- NextGen is an umbrella term for the ongoing, wideranging
transformation of the National Airspace
System (NAS). At its most basic level, NextGen
represents an evolution from a ground-based system
of air traffic control to a satellite-based system of air
traffic management. This evolution is vital to
meeting future demand, and to avoiding gridlock in
the sky and at our nation's airports
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