Airport Engineering Online Quiz practies questions test1

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1. As per ICAO recommendation, minimum width of safety area for instrumental runway should be _____.
78 m	150 m
300 m	450 m

2. As per ICAO, for A, B, and C type of airports, maximum effective, transverse and longitudinal grades in percentage respectively are ______.
1.0, 1.5 and 1.5	1.0, 1.5 and 2.0
1.5, 1.5 and 2.0	2.0, 2.0 and 2.0

3. As per ICAO recommendation, the rate of change of longitudinal gradient per 30 m length of vertical curve for A and B type of airports is limited to a maximum of
0.1 %	0.2 %
0.3 %	0.4 %

4. An airport has 4 gates. If the weighted average gate occupancy time is 30 minutes and gate utilisation factor is 0.5, then the capacity of the gate will be ______.
1 aircraft per hour	2 aircrafts per hour
4 aircrafts per hour	16 aircrafts per hour

5. The capacity of parallel runway pattern depends upon _______.
weather conditions and navigational aids available	lateral spacing between two runways and weather conditions
lateral spacing between two runways and navigational aids available	lateral spacing between two runways, weather conditions and navigational aids available.

6. The engine failure case for determining the basic runway length may require ______.
only clearway	only stop way
either a clearway or a stopway	either a clearway or a stopway or both

7. The minimum width of clearway is ______.
50 m	100 m
150 m	250 m

8. If the monthly mean of average daily temperature for the hottest month of the year is 25° C and the monthly mean of the maximum daily temperature of the same month of the year is 46° C, the airport reference temperature is ______.
32°C	35.5°C
48°C	25°C

9. The total length of a runway is 1000 m. The elevation at distance 0,200 m, 400 m, 600 m, 800 m and 1000 m are 100.0 m, 99.2 m, 101.0 m, 101.8 m, 101.4 m and 101.0 m respectively. The effective gradient of runway will be.
0.10%	0.26%
0.43 %	0.65%

10. The length of runway under standard conditions is 2000 m. The elevation of airport site is 300 m. Its reference temperature is 33.05°C. If the runway is to be constructed with an effective gradient of 0.25 percent, the corrected runway length will be _____.
2500 m	2600 m
2700 m	2800 m

11. As per ICAO, the minimum basic runway length for A and E type of airport will be ______.
1500 m and 600 m	2100 m and 750 m
1500 m and 750 m	2100 m and 600 m

12. Zero fuel weight of an aircraft is:
equal to empty operating weight	equal to maximum landing weight
less than empty operating weight	equal to sum of empty operating weight and the maximum pay load.

13. The cruising speed of the aircraft is 500 kmph. If there is a head wind of 50 kmph, then the air speed and ground speed of the aircraft respectively will be ______.
450 kmph and 500 kmph	500 kmph and 450 kmph
450 kmph and 450 kmph	500 kmph and 500 kmph

14. As per ICAO, for airports serving big aircrafts, the crosswind component should not exceed
15 kmph	25 kmph
35 kmph	45 kmph

15. Calm period is the percentage of time during which wind intensity is less than ______.
4.8 kmph	6.4 kmph
8.0 kmph	9.6 kmph

16. For determining the basic runway.length, the landing case requires that aircraft should come to a stop within p % of the landing distance. The value of p is _______.
40%	50%
60%	75%

17. According to ICAO, all markings on the runways are ______.
Yellow	White
Black	Red

18. Runway threshold is indicated by a series of parallel lines starting from a distance of ______.
3 m from runway end	6 m from runway end
10 m from runway end	15 m from runway end

19. The width and interval of transverse centre line bars along the extended centre line of runway, in approach lighting system are ______.
3 m and 30 m	4.2 m and 30 m
4.2 m and 50 m	3 m and 45 m

20. In Intrumental landing system, the middle markers are located _______.
along the extended centre line of runway end	about 1 km. ahead of the runway threshold
at the runway threshold	about 7 km. ahead of the runway threshold