Installations & Facilities

Light and flexible cone mounted on amast to show the direction and strength of the wind.

• Wind speed meter

• Anemometer

• Wind vane

• Windsock

Run-up Areas are for ground run of piston and turbine engine aircraft under maintenance.

• True

• False

_________ are installed in the airfield boundary fence to provide access to off base roads and tracks.

• Access gates

• Airfield gates

• Emergency gates

• Crash gates

It allows ATC equipment/facilities to keep running for a short time when main power is lost.

• Undisrupted Power Supply (UPS)

• Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS)

• Unbroken Power Supply (UPS)

• Undisturbed Power Supply (UPS)

The equipment to arrest jet aircraft that overrun the ends of the runway.

• Arrester Systems

• Arrester Nets

• Arrester Hookwires

• Arrester Barriers

Name the 3 states of the arrester barrier.

• Barrier Up, Down and Removed

• Barrier Up, Down and Replaced

• Barrier Up, Down and Unserviceable

• Barrier Up, Down and Undeployed

The pilot is to make the call "Barrier" ______ times if he requires it during take-off or landing.

• 4

• 3

• 2

Considerations by the pilot before a decision is made for his aircraft to engage the barrier. (a) Height of nose and canopy (b) Size, shape and strength of wing structure and air intakes (c) Size, shape and strength of the barrier (d) Weight and aircraft speed

• a, b and c

• a, b and d

• a, c and d

• b, c and d

The 3 states of the hookwire are; Hookwire Up, Down and Replaced.

• True

• False

TAB Rwy 36 arrester gears are positioned as follows:

• 1000ft inward from threshold

• 1100ft inward from threshold

• 1200ft inward from threshold

• 1300ft inward from threshold