Chapter 1 Airports

Which of the following statements is true of airports?

• A) Airports

  positively impact

  tourist industries

  in their vicinity

• B) Airports

  provide little

  income to the

  communities in

  which they exist

• C) Generally,

  airports create

  very few jobs

  outside of airlines

• D) Airports

  generally are all

  government

  owned

• E) Airports

  generally are all

  privately owned

2. When it comes to the history of airports, which statement is correct?

• A) The oldest

  continually

  operating airport

  began operations

  in 1930

• B) Commercial aviation did not really begin to grow as a means of travel for the general public until the jet age

• C) The jet age

  resulted in

  commercial travel

  that could go

  further with more

  passengers

• D) In the 1960s, the increase in jets led to more efficient and smaller airports

• E) Though mostly

  privately owned

  at first, due to

  increasing capital

  expenditure

  costs, private

  companies began

  to turn to

  government

  ownership of

  airports in the

  1970s

3. Which statement is NOT true of the Airports Council International (ACI)?

• A) It was officially established in 1991

• B) It is a not-for profit organization that represents airports in regulatory matters

• C) It has its world headquarters located in Montreal

• D) ACI is the voice of the world’s airports (only those which are government owned and operated)

• E) All of these statements are true

4. ICAO’s Annex 14, which deals with Airport Regulations, covers…

• A) Airport planning

• B) Lighting at airport

• C) Rescue and firefighting equipment requirements

• D) Civil engineering of airports

• E) All of these areas and many more

5. Which is NOT an area considered by a Civil Aviation Authority in the issuance of an aerodrome certificate?

• A) Corporate structure

• B) Equipment

• C) Facilities

• D) Operational procedures

• E) Safety management

6. Aviation passengers are most familiar with the Airport codes identifying locations as produced by:

• A) ICAO

• B) ACI

• C) IATA

• D) SMS

• E) Trivago

7. The two-dimensional location of an airport on the Earth can be identified by the airport’s:

• A) IATA Code

• B) ICAO Annex 11

• C) ICAO Code

• D) The airport

• E) Coordinates in latitude and longitude

8. An airport’s height is recognized as being a certain distance…

• A) Above or below mean sea level

• B) Above or below the height of the state

• C) From the nearest ocean

• D) Above or below the highest point of terrain

• E) All of the above

9. Airport operations are divided into:

• A) The hot side and the cold side

• B) Airline and operators

• C) Public and private

• D) Landside and airside

• E) None of these

10. When it comes to security at airports, which statement is correct?

• A) Landside has security concerns, airside does not

• B) Landside does not have security concerns, airside does

• C) Both landside and airside generally have the same security concerns

• D) Landside and airside each have unique security concerns

• E) None of these