AIRLINE/FLIGHT OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT EXAM REVIEWER

defined as air transportation used for domestic and international passenger service traveling from one place to another.

• Passenger Aircraft

• Air Transporation

• Prop Planes

• Jet Aircraft

These are aircraft driven by propellers or props. They are smaller, relatively slow (with 300 miles per hour (mph) speed), and travel short distances.

• Jet Planes

• Prop Planes

• Narrow-Body Props

• Wide-Body Props

These aircraft fly faster (with 520 to 560 mph speed), travel longer distances, and are larger.

• Narrow-Body Jet

• Wide-Body Jet

• Jet Planes

• Jet Aircraft

One of the configurations of Jet Aircraft that is usually carries fewer than 200 passengers and is called a regional jet or commuter jet.

• Jet Planes

• Wide-Body Jet

• Narrow-Body Jet

• Jet Props Aircraft

One of the configurations of Jet Aircraft that has a larger and has two (2) aisles. It can carry over 200 passengers and is also called a jumbo jet.

• Narrow-Body Jet

• Wide-Body Jet

• Jet Props Aircraft

• Boeing 787

This is the main structure of the aircraft, which contains the cockpit or flight deck and the passenger and cargo compartments. It also connects the major parts of an aircraft and carries the payload.

• Fuselage

• Wings

• Aileron

• Flap

This is located in front of the fuselage where the pilot sits. It is the command and control center of the aircraft.

• Cockpit

• Flap

• Rudder

• Aileron

These are commonly known as foils, which are imperative for flight.

• Wings

• Winglet

• Aileron

• Spoiler

Part of the wings used in modern airlines to reduce drag (the force that opposes an aircraft's motion through the air) located on the wing's tips.

• Slat

• Flap

• Winglet

• Aileron

Part of the wings and this is the outer hinged part of the wing. It is used to roll the wings from side to side or change roll.

• Winglet

• Spoiler

• Slat

• Aileron