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Question 1. After granting Push and Start clearance, what should be said to the pilot afterward?
A) Contact tower
B) Contact me when ready to taxi
C) Taxi to the runway
D) None of the above
Question 2. What should a tower controller do if an aircraft that is holding short of the runway behind a departing aircraft, requests clearance for takeoff?
A) The controller should wait for the aircraft on the runway to clear the starting area and wait for wake turbulence to settle, and tell them aircraft holding short to taxi into position and hold.
B) The controller should clear both aircraft for takeoff, and allow the aircraft to maintain visual separation
C) The controller should clear the aircraft on the runway, and wait until the aircraft has been switched to departure before the holding aircraft can be allowed to enter the runway
D) Neither aircraft should be cleared because no two aircraft should be awaiting takeoff clearance for the same runway, at the same time
Question 3. If you are the tower controller, and you have a CRJ-700 on short-final for 4R, and a MD-90 on 4R that still hasn't cleared the runway, what should you do as a controller?
A) Tell the MD-90 pilot to clear the runway ASAP!
B) Tell the CRJ-700 to go-around.
C) PANIC!
D) A & B.
Question 4. To intercept a localizer, vector an aircraft's approach to the localizer at a maximum of a ?
A) 10 Degree Angle
B) 20 Degree Angle
C) 30 Degree Angle
D) 40 Degree Angle
Question 5. Ground controllers mainly keep tabs on aircraft locations by what type of contact?
A) Radio Contact
B) Visual Contact (binoculars)
C) Radar Contact
D) Computerized Beacons
Question 6. Ground controllers responsibility is for traffic where?
A) That are landing.
B) That are on the ground.
C) That are in the pattern.
D) Aircraft looking for other downed aircraft.
Question 7. If UAL1598 is flying a heading of 275, and AA8832 is flying parallel with him, what direction will AA8832 be heading?
A) 360
B) 090
C) 180
D) 275
Question 8. What ATC position can give clearance for a -back-taxi- on a runway?
A) Ground
B) Tower
C) Clearance Delivery
D) Center
Question 9. The abreviation -ATC- stands for what job at an airport?
A) Air TRACON Controller
B) Air Training Chiefs
C) Air Traffic Controller
D) Annoying Tango-Dancing Chico
Question 10. What is the standard ground frequency at KDTW used here at DVATC?
A) 118.90
B) 118.40
C) 121.80
D) 124.05
Question 11. If you have a aircraft flying a heading of 180, And traffic is coming at it at a direction of 270, What clock directions should the plane expect to find the aircraft ?
A) 9 o'clock
B) 10 o'clock
C) 3 o'clock
D) 4 o'clock
Question 12. TRACON stands for???
A) Terminal Radio Area Control
B) Terminal Radar Area Control
C) Tiny radio aircraft control
D) None of the above
Question 13. When issuing a speed reduction what do you say?
A) Slow down
B) Slow and maintain _kts (callsign)
C) Have you hit a speed bump?
D) B&C
Question 14. If you are the ground controller at KDTW and the current ATIS information is ECHO, and an aircraft request taxi clearance with ATIS information DELTA, what should you do?
A) Tell him to re-check the ATIS.
B) Tell him he cant taxi.
C) A&B.
D) None of the Above
Question 15. What is the standard Approach/ Departure for KDTW?
A) 118.90
B) 118.40
C) 121.80
D) 124.05
Question 16. What kind of airspace is over the middle of the Atlantic Ocean?
A) Class A
B) International Airspace
C) Intercontinental Airspace.
D) Class I
Question 17. A controllers top priority is ?
A) Spacing
B) Efficiency
C) Speed
D) Tower Lighting
Question 18. When in the ground controller position, seperation of aircraft is key because of what factor?
A) The pilots get territorial when in their aircraft
B) Wake turbulence / jetblast
C) The aircraft look better when spaced
D) Spacing is only because the instructions given by the controller take a while to complete
Question 19. If there is a 767-300(UAL1572) and a Cessna 172(N127NF) approaching an intersection, and you want the 767-300 to proceed first, what command do you issue?
A) Controller: 'N127NF, stop 100 yards before the next intersection, caution, traffic is a Boeing 767'
B) Controller: 'N127NF, hold position at next intersection, caution, traffic is a Boeing 767'
C) Controller: 'UAL1572, proceed at next intersection in front of traffic, Cessna 172'
D) Controller: 'UAL1572, increase taxi speed from 20 knts to 25 knts, in order to cross intersection in front of opposing aircraft, traffic is a Cessna 172'
Question 20. STD barometric pressure is used when?
A) After takeoff
B) Above 10,000ft
C) Above 18,000ft MSL
D) After landing
Question 21. When an aircraft squawks 7700 it means
A) Communications Failure
B) Unlawful Interference
C) An engine problem
D) General Problem
Question 22. What is the control area for Ground Controllers?
A) From the gates and parking spaces, until two standard taxiway intersections from the hold short point before the runway
B) From the gates and parking spaces, until the hold short point before the runway
C) From the beginning of main taxiways to the point of take-off
D) From the beginning of the gate, to the general aviation parking
Question 23. An aircraft is making an emergency landing Runway 9, and the only other runway is perpendicular at the 9 end of the runway, at a metropolitan airport and 3 aircraft are 8 miles away on the approach ?
A) Close down the runway for the time being and reroute the aircraft to Runway 18
B) Tell the aircraft to make into a holding pattern
C) Assume the aircraft with the emergency will be able to clear the runway and have the aircraft continue the approach
D) Have the aircraft land on runway 27
Question 24. What crucial instruction can tower controllers grant to pilots?
A) Clearance for taxi / engine shutdown
B) Clearance for crossing an active runway and abort take-off
C) Clearance for crossing inactive runways
D) Clearance for take-off, landing, and permission to cross an active runway
Question 25. Which aircraft will have top priority handling among other aircraft?
A) A combat jet.
B) Air Force One.
C) Military Transport aircraft.
D) Fast aircraft.