amt 201 exam questions with complete
solutions
Airline Deregulation Act - correct answer ✔✔Airlines are free to determine fares and route structures
without government approval
Air traffic controller strike - correct answer ✔✔PATCO wants better working conditions, pay, 32 hr
workweek, and exclusion from civil services clauses; Reagan fires 11,000 controllers
NAS - correct answer ✔✔National Airspace System
what is a component of the NAS - correct answer ✔✔every person and thing required to successfully get
a plane from one airport to another
How is the airspace within the NAS is divided into different classes? - correct answer ✔✔Each class has
different dimensions and operating rules
Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D, Class E
VOR airways and RNAV "tango" routes - correct answer ✔✔used for navigation below 18,000 feet MSL
jet routes and "Q" routes - correct answer ✔✔used for navigation between FL180 and FL450
VOR (VHF Omnidirectional Range) - correct answer ✔✔provides bearing information but not distance
Low altitude VOR - correct answer ✔✔guarantee interference-free reception with 40 NM but not above
18000 feet
high altitudes VOR - correct answer ✔✔used for aircraft operating between 18,000 and 60,000 feet and
up to 200 NM
, what are the limitations of VOR's known as? - correct answer ✔✔service volumes
VOR-DME - correct answer ✔✔interrogator on aircraft and transponder on ground
what is the distance in VOR-DME? - correct answer ✔✔slant range
VORTAC - correct answer ✔✔Developed by FAA and military, uses VOR and TACAN, civilian use VOR for
bearing and TACAN for DME
TACAN - correct answer ✔✔military, provides bearing and distance, uses single transmitter on ground
What Department of the Federal Government does the FAA fall under? - correct answer ✔✔Department
of Transportation, office of the secretary
What is ATO? - correct answer ✔✔air traffic organization
Define NextGen - correct answer ✔✔Represents an evolution from a ground-based system of ATC to a
satellite-based system of air traffic management
What part of ATO is ATC within? - correct answer ✔✔FAA administrator
How many ATO Service Areas are there? - correct answer ✔✔3
En Route ATC facility - correct answer ✔✔provide air traffic service to aircraft operating on Instrument
Flight Rules (IFR) flight plans within controlled airspace, and principally during the en route phase of
flight
define en route - correct answer ✔✔segment of light between departure and destination terminal areas
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