AIRPORT PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT - Chapter 4 1 )What are the four components that make up an airport? 2

AIRPORT PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT - Chapter 4

1 )What are the four components that make up an airport?

2. How are runways identified on an airfield?

3. What is the difference between a displaced threshold and a relocated threshold?

4. What are the differences between visual, nonprecision instrument, and precision instrument runways?

5. What is SMGCS? How does it help airfield operations?

6. How are taxiways identified on an airfield?

7. What types of taxiways exist on an airfield?

8. What are the imaginary surfaces described in FAR Part 77 for? What are the dimensions of these surfaces?
9. How does an ILS work?
10. What makes the GPS system so different from other navigational aid technologies?
11. What types of technologies exist on airfields to aid aircraft on approach to landing?
12. What types of airport beacons exist? What do the different lighting combinations mean?
13. What are the two sets of flight rules under which airports may operate?
14. What are the different types of signs that are located on an airfield? How are they marked? What do they mean?
15. What are some of the facilities on the airfield that help detect and communicate wind and weather information?