Questions and CORRECT Answers
What are the three components of a proper safety oversight system? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Inspection, follow up, and resolution of issues
Two options for accident prevention: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Eliminating hazards or
eliminating the chain of events leading to the hazard
4 core elements of Safety Management Systems (SMS) - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Safety
policy, safety risk management, safety assurance, safety promotion
Safety Policy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Establishes senior management's commitment to
continually improve safety. Defines the methods, processes, and organizational structure
needed to meet safety goals
Safety Risk Management - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Determines the need for, and
adequacy of, new or revised risk controls based on the assessment of acceptable risk
Safety Assurance - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Evaluates the continued effectiveness of
implemented risk control strategies; supports the identification of new hazards
Safety Promotion - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Includes training, communication, and other
actions to create a positive safety culture within all levels of the workforce
Accountable Executive - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The individual that is responsible for
implementation and oversight of the SMS processes from a policy perspective.
SMS Program Manager - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- The individual who plans and
implements the SMS programs throughout the airport, and is an expert on SMS.
What is 14 CFR Part 139? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Certification of Airports
, Airport Operating Certificate - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Issued to commercial service
airports (with more than 2,500 annual enplanements) that have passed the FAA safety
inspection
Part 139 rules govern airports with scheduled and unscheduled air carrier aircraft with 30+
seats, or: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Scheduled air carrier operation in air raft with more
than 9 but less than 31 seats
Class I - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- All types of scheduled operations of aircraft with at least
31 seats
Class II - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Scheduled operations of small air carrier aircraft and
unscheduled large air carrier aircraft.
Class III - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Scheduled operations of small air carrier aircraft
Class IV - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Unscheduled operations of large air carrier aircraft
Shared-use airport, and civilian operation areas must satisfy Part 139 - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔- Military operates the airport and allows commercial air carrier operations
Joint-use airport, and the operator must conform to Part 139 wherever air carriers operate -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Military leases a portion of the airport from the airport operator
Exemption - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Legal document granting an airport relief from a
regulatory requirement of Part 139
Noncomplying Conditions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- When uncorrected and unsafe
conditions exist at the airport, the operator must confine air carrier operations to the safe
portions of the airport
How soon after a deviation from Part 139 regulations must the airport inform the FAA? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- 14 days