MGTA FQ

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MGTA FQ
Albert Font
Quiz by Albert Font, updated more than 1 year ago
Albert Font
Created by Albert Font almost 5 years ago
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Question 1

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The Portuguese ANSP wants to have a quick estimation of the capacity of its network for the forecast traffic of 2025. Which technique is more suitable for the task?
Answer
  • Judgment analysis, because it is faster and has a global scope
  • Fast time simulations, because it will not require the implication of air traffic controllers
  • Real time simulations, because it is faster than the other techniques for network analysis
  • Real time simulations, because it’s more accurate

Question 2

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In the United States, when there is a lack of capacity at a given airport and the capacity cannot be accommodated, a ground delay program (GDP) is defined because:
Answer
  • The time the passengers are in the air is maximized
  • Ground delay are preferred over air delay only due to their lower cost
  • Air delay are preferred because they are a better approach to deal with capacity-demand imbalances in order to maximize the throughput of the airport
  • By doing ground delay, the workload of the controllers at the TMAs is reduced

Question 3

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Assuming that the AAR at a given airport is known. Being t the time when the GDP is defined (file time), as t increases, the number of affected flights (controlled flights):
Answer
  • Increases, dividing the delay between more planes
  • Remains constant. Therefore, it is better to define the GDP as late as possible to reduce the uncertainty
  • Decreases, therefore the average delay per delayed aircraft increases
  • Decreases, therefore the total delay assigned is reduced

Question 4

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In the genetic algorithm optimization technique, the linear transformation of the objective function prior to the fitness function:
Answer
  • Reduces the probabilities of a quick convergence, and therefore, maximizes the possibilities of finding a global optima
  • It is a method to transform a multi-objective problem into a single-objective problem
  • It is only used when instead of a minimization the algorithm is used to maximize the problem
  • Ensures there are not negative values but can lead to a quick convergence

Question 5

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An airport has a capacity that is lower than its demand. In order to minimize the amount of ground delay assigned to the aircraft, a RBS algorithm is used. The same problem is solved by using integer programming (IP).
Answer
  • Both solutions will minimize the amount of total delay assigned (same amount of delay) but the solution computed with IP will be fairer
  • IP will probably assign less total delay than RBS, and therefore IP is preferable
  • RBS will have the same amount of total delay as IP
  • RBS will probably assign less total delay than IP, and therefore RBS is preferable

Question 6

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An airport has a capacity that is lower than its demand. In order to minimize the amount of ground delay assigned to the aircraft, a RBS algorithm is used. The same problem is solved using IP, for example using a GHP formulation.
Answer
  • Both solutions will minimize the amount of total delay assigned (same amount of delay) but the solution is not guaranteed to be feasible
  • IP will probably assign less total delay than RBS, and therefore IP is preferable
  • RBS will have the same amount of total delay as IP
  • RBS will probably assign less total delay than IP, and therefore RBS is preferable

Question 7

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For a given airspace (i.e. a FIR):
Answer
  • The number of sectors changes dynamically as a function of the demand according to the Opening Scheme
  • Real-time simulations are used to determine the best sector configuration (opening scheme) for the next hours of operations
  • The convexity constraint when constructing a new sectorization ensures that a flight will be a minimum amount of time in the sector
  • The genetic algorithms are the only technique used to generate the best sectorization for the airspace

Question 8

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With the introduction of Free Routes and User-preferred routings:
Answer
  • The capacity of the airspace increases because the traffic is less structured
  • The ANSP suggest to the airlines direct routes between the published waypoints
  • A higher interoperability between actors is required
  • It is only possible in oceanic tracks

Question 9

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With the introduction of Free Routes and User-preferred routings:
Answer
  • The capacity of the airspace may increase because the probability of having conflicts has been found to be lower (traffic is less structured)
  • The ANSP suggests to the airlines direct routes between the published waypoints
  • The Airspace Users are not required to file a flight plan
  • It is only possible in oceanic tracks

Question 10

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The factors that affect the en-route capacity of the airspace are:
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  • Spatial-Geometrical factors (such as the training of the ATC), the controllability (such as the work of the pilot), and the capacity resilience.
  • Spatial-Geometrical factors (such as the airspace configuration), the controllability (such as the work of the pilot), and the capacity resilience.
  • Spatial-Geometrical factors (such as the training of the ATC), the controllability (such as the flow management), and the capacity resilience.
  • None of the previous answers.

Question 11

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One of the characteristics of judgmental analysis to estimate the capacity of a system is:
Answer
  • It does not require the involvement of the ATCO as in real time simulations
  • It has a higher cost than real time simulations
  • It requires more time than fast time simulations
  • It has a higher transferability than fast time simulations

Question 12

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If instead of a Ration-By-Schedule policy a Ration-By-Distance policy is used:
Answer
  • The total delay assigned is minimized
  • The delay each passenger suffers is minimized
  • If the GDP is not cancelled before the planned ending time, less delay is realized than in the RBS policy
  • If the GDP is cancelled before the planned ending time, less delay is realized than in the RBS policy

Question 13

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Stochastic models aimed at optimally solving the GHP imply:
Answer
  • to maintain capacity constraints of the deterministic version of the GHP
  • to find the optimal ground delay to be assigned to flights in order to respect a probabilistic AAR
  • to define the probability of occurrence of AAR profiles, based on a limited number of scenarios
  • a computational intractability, due to an exponential growth of the decision variables

Question 14

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Indicate which one of the following is a ground-based safety net:
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  • MTCD
  • STCA
  • TCAS
  • See and Avoid

Question 15

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Which of the following systems is a separation provision one:
Answer
  • STCA
  • ACAS II
  • MTCD
  • see and avoid

Question 16

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The allocation of IATA slot at a coordinated airport:
Answer
  • Is based on a negotiation process between Airlines and Airport Operators
  • Is based on the minimization of scheduling delays
  • Is based on historical assignment
  • Does not allow airlines to exchange slots

Question 17

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Currently in Europe the ATFM initiatives:
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  • Assign a slot to each affected flight based on original ETO
  • Assign a slot to each affected flight based on the original CTOT
  • Constrain the arrival time of the affected flights
  • Are used only in special cases of airport congestion

Question 18

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In Genetic Algorithms, the objective function:
Answer
  • Must return a value that is always positive and bounded between 0 and 2
  • Is applied to the phenotype
  • Is applied to the genotype
  • Returns the number of trials an individual can expect to receive

Question 19

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Genetic Algorithms:
Answer
  • Always require a fitness function to rank the individuals in a population
  • Can find an optimal solution whenever the generation gap is close to 1
  • Can optimize the problem’s objective function according to the information of the genotype
  • Are a class of metaheuristic algorithms to solve complex problems

Question 20

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In the genetic algorithm optimization technique, a fitness function:
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  • Is always needed when minimizing
  • Is the only technique available to deal with multi-objective optimization
  • Is not needed when the objective function is always negative
  • Is generally the objective function multiplied by a scalar

Question 21

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In GA, the fitness function:
Answer
  • must return a value that is always positive and bounded between 0 and 2
  • is applied to the phenotype
  • is applied to the genotype
  • returns the variance of the workload of each sector

Question 22

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The allocation of IATA slot at a coordinated (level 3) airport:
Answer
  • is based on a trading process between airlines and airport operators
  • is based on the minimization of scheduling delays
  • does not allow airlines to exchange slots
  • is based on historical assignment

Question 23

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The allocation of IATA slot at a coordinated (level 3) airport:
Answer
  • is based on a trading process between airlines and airport operator
  • takes place during the strategic phase (6 to 4 months before the season)
  • is based only on historical assignment (grandfathering rights)
  • does not allow airlines to exchange slots

Question 24

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The allocation of IATA slot at a coordinated (level 3) airport:
Answer
  • is based on a trading process between airlines and airport operators
  • takes place during the tactical phase
  • does not allow airlines to exchange slots
  • takes into account historical assignment (grandfathering rights)

Question 25

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When computing the capacity of a sector
Answer
  • there is a formula that relates directly the complexity of a controller workload and the capacity of the sector
  • in the ATM of the United States, airspace constraints typically have a more severe effect on airline operations than airport constraints
  • Airspace factors, traffic factors and operational constraints are some of the factors affecting the complexity of the controller’s task
  • the controller workload only depends on the number of simultaneously present aircraft

Question 26

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When computing the capacity of a sector:
Answer
  • there is a formula that relates directly the complexity of a controller workload and the capacity of the sector
  • in the ATM of the United States, airport constraints typically have a more severe effect on airline operations than airspace constraints
  • traffic factors and operational constraints are the only factors affecting the complexity of the controller’s task
  • the controller workload only depends on the number of aircraft simultaneously present in the sector

Question 27

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The ERASMUS Project was:
Answer
  • proposing a new concept for air traffic flow management
  • investigating new values for separations minima
  • investigating subliminal control for conflict resolution
  • investigating decentralized solutions for conflict resolution

Question 28

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In a free route airspace the airspace users can:
Answer
  • fly whatever route they want between a defined point of entry and point of exit
  • plan whatever route they want between a defined point of entry and point of exit
  • receive from ATC the delegation of the responsibility for traffic separation
  • follow a fixed structure of airways to plan their flights

Question 29

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Free route in Europe:
Answer
  • Is the same concept as free flight
  • Is usually applied gate-to-gate
  • Affects only to a specific portion of the flight
  • Removes the need of ATC

Question 30

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Air traffic capacity within free route operations:
Answer
  • Is theoretically the same as conventional operation
  • Is higher due to a higher number of routes and thus higher airspace capacity
  • Is lower due to the added complexity of the controller to detect and manage conflicts
  • Is lower due to a lower use of airspace volume

Question 31

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Which of the following factors does not affect the capacity of a single runway airport:
Answer
  • the separation requirements imposed by the ATM system
  • the mix of movements and their sequencing
  • the application of IATA grandfathering rights
  • the weather conditions

Question 32

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The capacity envelope of an airport can be obtained from historical values of:
Answer
  • airport capacity taking into account the entire set of observations
  • airport capacity discarding the extreme points from the entire set of observations
  • aircraft demand taking into account the weather patterns
  • historically assigned IATA slots

Question 33

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The Ration by Schedule method to allocate slots:
Answer
  • gives the minimum passenger delay compared with other methods for GDP
  • gives the minimum cost assignment of ground delays in the GHP
  • gives the minimum total flight delay compared with other methods for GDP
  • gives the maximum inequity for passengers and airlines compared with other methods for GDP

Question 34

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An airspace control sector
Answer
  • has a limited capacity which depends on the workload of the air traffic controllers
  • can be split indefinitely into smaller sectors to increase the overall airspace capacity
  • is a region of airspace under the control of three or more air traffic controllers
  • is a region of airspace defined only in two dimensions

Question 35

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In the model of deterministic GHP
Answer
  • the exponential factor in the objective function represents the increasing cost of providing capacity
  • the demand uncertainty is explicitly taken into account
  • the decision variables are binary
  • the capacity constraints imposed by airports and airspace control sectors are both modeled

Question 36

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In the project of GEAIO of optimization of airspace sectoring, the most important objective concerning the traffic workload was to:
Answer
  • minimize the number of aircraft per sector
  • minimize the number of sectors
  • minimize the variance of the number of aircraft per sector
  • maximize the number of aircraft per sector

Question 37

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GDP scope is one of the parameters that the GDP authority can set to change the impact of the application of the programme. Scope is defined as a distance to the airport where the GDP is applied. When increasing scope distance:
Answer
  • both ground and holding delay increases
  • holding delay decreases and ground delay increases
  • both holding and ground delay decrease
  • holding delay increases and ground delay decreases

Question 38

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Voronoi diagrams is a technique used in the definition of sectorizations. Which of the following is not a characteristic of Voronoi diagrams:
Answer
  • Creates a discretization of the airspace based on the workload and connectivity
  • The closest pair of points corresponds to two adjacent cells
  • Every cell is convex
  • The edges are located at the maximum distance of all the points

Question 39

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Concerning airport capacity:
Answer
  • the type and location of exits from the runway have no direct influence on airport capacity
  • the requirement of airborne separation is always more restrictive than the single occupancy one
  • when a runway is used for both arrivals and departures, ATC may be able to release a following take-off sooner if a landing aircraft can exit a runway quickly
  • the weather conditions do not usually influence the runway capacity

Question 40

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Airport Capacity:
Answer
  • Can be represented through an arrival/departure capacity envelop
  • Can be calculated as the sum of all runway capacities as if they were independent
  • Is tactically assigned to airlines through IATA slot few hours before departure
  • Is not affected by the mix of aircraft types operating at the airport

Question 41

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Evolutionary algorithms (such as Genetic Algorithms and Ant Colony Optimisation) are:
Answer
  • Metaheuristic methods, and they do not guarantee an optimal solution is ever found
  • Probabilistic methods, always converging to a global optimal
  • Gradient methods, using problem dynamics to determine the search direction
  • Deterministic

Question 42

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Which of the following is not a reproduction strategy in GA?
Answer
  • Roulette Wheel Crossover
  • Single Point Crossover
  • Shuffle Crossover
  • Multiple Point Crossover

Question 43

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In ACO, how would you prevent fast convergence to a local optimal?
Answer
  • Increase the number of ants (m)
  • Increase the constant value (controls relative importance of desirability of transition)
  • Increase the constant value (controls relative importance of amount of pheromone)
  • Decrease the pheromone evaporation coefficient ()

Question 44

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In the Traveling Salesman Problem solved using ACO:
Answer
  • Every ant has to visit only one city
  • Every ant starts from a different city
  • Every ant chooses the next city to visit depending on the distance and the pheromones laid
  • The number of ants does not impact the optimality of the solution

Question 45

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Regarding the capacity of ATM sectors:
Answer
  • there is a formula that relates directly the complexity of a controller workload and the capacity of the sectors
  • in the European ATM, airspace constraints typically have a more severe effect on airline operations than in the US ATM
  • traffic factors and operational constraints are the only factors affecting the complexity of the controller’s task
  • the controller workload only depends on the number of aircraft simultaneously present in the sectors

Question 46

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At the pre-tactical phase of the ATFM:
Answer
  • The flights are managed with the existing ATC capacity
  • The estimated ATC capacities and forecasted demand are used to predict the ATFM regulations that may be needed, and then to adjust the traffic planning accordingly
  • The long-term demand (i.e., with months of anticipation) is used to define the ATC capacity needed
  • Slots are assigned to airlines in the sectors where the capacity is lower than the forecasted demand

Question 47

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Capacity is to be estimated for a FIR with the higher possible accuracy. Which one of the following techniques would you use to estimate it?
Answer
  • Judgement Analysis
  • Performance Based Navigation
  • Fast time simulation (FTS)
  • Real time simulation (RTS)

Question 48

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Airspace sectorisation within a FIR:
Answer
  • Can vary throughout the day
  • Depends only on the number of aircraft
  • Does not usually vary throughout the day
  • Each sector can have an arbitrary shape

Question 49

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3D airspace sectorization:
Answer
  • Is much easier to calculate than conventional sectorization
  • Each sector can have an arbitrary shape
  • Each sector must satisfy the right prism constraint
  • Each sector does not need to be convex

Question 50

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Ground delay programs:
Answer
  • Prevent most of the aircraft to enter into holding patterns
  • Are in place on low traffic conditions
  • Are inefficient when demand at an airport is unusually high
  • Are less efficient than airborne delay

Question 51

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In a ground delay program:
Answer
  • The Controlled Time of Departure (CTD) is the new assigned time of departure
  • The file time is always later than the program start time
  • The program start time and file time are the same
  • The program radius does not affect the amount of delay that a single aircraft might have

Question 52

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Ground delay programs:
Answer
  • Are in place when there is little traffic
  • Help to solve demand/capacity imbalance problem efficiently
  • Require most of the aircraft to enter into holding patterns
  • Are inefficient when demand at an airport is unusually high

Question 53

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In a ground delay program:
Answer
  • The Estimated Time of Departure (ETD) is the new assigned time of departure
  • The file time is the time when the GDP is defined
  • The program end time is the time when no aircraft has assigned delay any more
  • The program start time and file time are the same

Question 54

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In a ground delay program which of the following would be exempted flights:
Answer
  • The flight is an international flight
  • The flight is on the ground at the filing time
  • All of the above
  • The flight is within the GDP radius

Question 55

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In a ground delay program varying the filing time:
Answer
  • Does not have an impact to the GDP
  • Later filing times give higher number of GDP affected flights
  • Earlier filing times give lower average ground delay per aircraft
  • Earlier filing times give higher airborne delays

Question 56

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In a ground delay program, when varying the filing time:
Answer
  • It does not have an impact on the GDP
  • Earlier filing times give higher number of GDP affected flights
  • Later filing times give lower average ground delay per aircraft
  • Earlier filing times give higher airborne delays

Question 57

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In a ground delay program we talk about exempt flights when:
Answer
  • The flight is an international flight
  • The flight is in the ground at the filing time
  • The flight is within the GDP radius
  • All of the above

Question 58

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Air Traffic Controllers Workload:
Answer
  • Is determined by airspace capacity
  • Is determined by static and dynamic airspace and traffic characteristics
  • Is measured through gaming techniques
  • Is a limiting factor for airport capacity only

Question 59

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Among capacity estimation techniques:
Answer
  • Judgmental analysis usually requires higher cost than fast time simulations
  • Real Time simulations have a higher adaptability than judgmental analysis
  • Fast time simulations have higher accuracy than judgmental analysis
  • Real Time simulations require a lower time than judgmental analysis

Question 60

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In air traffic conflict resolution:
Answer
  • centralized ATMS schemes go towards the free flight philosophy
  • in decentralized ATMS schemes, aircraft are responsible for maintaining separation between them, detecting and resolving all impending conflicts in the airspace
  • decentralized ATMS schemes rely more on ground-based ATC than centralized ATMS schemes
  • in decentralized ATMS schemes, aircraft always need intervention of central ATC system

Question 61

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In the next ATM paradigm a dynamic sectoring is desired because:
Answer
  • Moving sector boundaries in real-time to adapt to traffic demand would increase capacity and efficiency of the ATM system
  • It is easier for the controllers to coordinate with all the other sectors
  • Moving sector boundaries in real-time to adapt to traffic demand would allow each controller to monitor a single aircraft for the entire flight
  • It is easier for pilots to follow their routes within a sector when sectors are dynamic

Question 62

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In SESAR and NextGen want to modernize technologies and procedures for:
Answer
  • Anticipating aircraft separation tasks
  • Configuring the airspace (sectors, routes, etc.) in order to apply as few constraints as possible to the traffic demand
  • Enhancing ATM capacity by reducing the workload of the controllers
  • All the other answers are correct

Question 63

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One important new mode of separation introduced by SESAR will be:
Answer
  • The use of TCAS with automated conflict resolution capabilities
  • The speed control requested by ATC officers to avoid imminent collisions
  • None of the other answers is correct
  • Self-separation of aircraft, thus increasing the capacity of sectors

Question 64

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In SESAR and NextGen want to:
Answer
  • Substitute the tactical management of conflicts with a new layer of safety for the strategic de-confliction of trajectories
  • Complement the tactical management of conflicts and substitute the management of flows and capacities with a new layer of safety for the strategic de-confliction of trajectories
  • Separate trajectories for the entire flight with enough anticipation, even before take-off, to allow a collaborative flight planning among airlines, ATC, ATFM and airports.
  • None of the other answers is correct

Question 65

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Today’s traffic is strategically de-conflicted by:
Answer
  • Advanced MTCD systems with trajectory resolution capabilities
  • Dynamic sectoring, especially if they are optimized with genetic algorithms
  • Airspace design only (routes, flight level scheme and sectorization)
  • Airspace design (routes, flight level scheme and sectorization) and management of flows and capacities

Question 66

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Recent research indicates that with the potential introduction of continuous operations in all phases of flight, and considering a TBO environment already implemented:
Answer
  • The flight efficiency (fuel and emissions) could be improved between 6% and 11%
  • Capacity may be increased because the probability of conflict will be lower in the absence of flight level constraints
  • Capacity may be increased because the complexity of the traffic will be easier for the controllers in the absence of flight level constraints
  • Safety may be increased by a factor of x4 or x5 in the absence of flight level constraints

Question 67

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Conflict resolution is a task that:
Answer
  • Is a highly combinatorial problem in the presence of multiple trajectories
  • Is required to ensure separation provision
  • Can generate new conflicts downstream (i.e., “domino effects”) if a global traffic awareness is not considered
  • All the other answers are correct

Question 68

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Separation provision to flights is a task:
Answer
  • Performed by the ATFM
  • Performed by the pilots with the help of a MTCD system
  • None of the other answers is correct
  • Performed by the ATC officers using TCAS

Question 69

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The introduction of a new strategic layer of safety for the early de-confliction of trajectories through a collaborative flight planning:
Answer
  • May contribute to reduce the workload of controllers, thus increasing the capacity
  • May contribute to increase the safety and flight efficiency
  • Is the cornerstone of the TBO paradigm
  • All the other answers are correct

Question 70

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A 4D trajectory is considered optimal in the TBO context because:
Answer
  • It represents the preferences of the flight operators flying without any constraints
  • It anticipates the separation provision for the entire flight taking into consideration the actual constraints of the ATM and the preferences of the flight operators
  • The time dimension is more efficient when introduced in a trajectory
  • It has no uncertainty related to any of its dimensions

Question 71

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The use of a hub and spoke network by most of the largest carriers implies that in case of disturbances at the hub airport:
Answer
  • there will be a high delay propagation
  • there will be a low delay propagation
  • delays in the morning will have a lower downstream effect
  • the hub system does not have any impact on the delay propagation
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