Sectional chart

Question 1

Controlled airport color

Answer 1

blue

Question 2

Uncontrolled airport color

Answer 2

magenta

Question 3

outer tick marks on airport

Answer 3

Indicates that fuel is available

Question 4

Circle with letter R inside

Answer 4

Indicates restricted or private airport

Question 5

Circled airport w/ runway symbol

Answer 5

Shown when the airport has hard-surface runways 1500-8069 ft long

Question 6

Runway shown w/ no circle on chart

Answer 6

Multiple runways or a runway is longer than 8069 ft long

Question 7

Military airport identification:

Answer 7

Name followed by: “MCAS”, “NAS”, “NAF”, “AFB”, “AAF”, etc.. OR a circle within a circle

Question 8

joint-use military/civilian airport

Answer 8

Circle within a circle w/ tick marks. Large joint-use airports are depicted the same as civil airports

Question 9

Abandoned airport

Answer 9

shown as a magenta circle with an X (if the runway is at least 3000ft and paved)

Question 10

Lighting information

Answer 10

• above the airport symbol - indicates a rotating beacon
  L - indicates that surface lighting is in operation from sunset to sunrise
  *L - surface lighting limitations.
  (ex: runway lights not automatically on overnight/ pilot controlled)

Question 11

Sectional: Communication services

Answer 11

C: CTAF frequency
*: indicates part-time tower operation
CT: control tower
U: unicom

Question 12

Runway info:

Answer 12

• Length of the longest runway in hundreds of feet
• non-standard traffic pattern runways are preceded w/ RP

Question 13

rotating beacon

Answer 13

-white and green: lighted land airport
-two whites and green: lighted military airport
-white, yellow, green: lighted heliport
-yellow and white: lighted water airport
-white only: unlighted land airport

Question 14

How is the MEF (Max elevation feature) in the sectional chart determined?

Answer 14

Add 100 feet to the elevation of the highest feature in the quadrant. If the feature is natural, add another 200 feet. Round up to the nearest 100 feet.

Question 15

Dimensions of chart quadrant:

Answer 15

30 minutes latitude by 30 minutes longitude

Question 16

Sectional symbol: upside-down ‘V’ with a dot underneath:

Answer 16

-tower more than 200 ft or considered to be hazardous because of proximity to an airport of height above surrounding terrain

Question 17

Magenta flag: underlined in black

Answer 17

VFR checkpoint.
prominent structure or point

Question 18

Types of VFR aeronautical charts:

Answer 18

Sectional charts:
-1-500,000 scale (1” -> 6.86 nm)
-named for a major city contained in the chart
-37 charts covering the US

Terminal area charts:
-Surround the country’s busiest airports (Class B)
-1:250,000 scale (1” -> ~3.43 nm)
-Include on the back side:
-VFR Flyways
-VFR Corridors
-VFR Routing

Question 19

Area surrounded by dashed magenta line:

Answer 19

Class E airspace begins at the surface

Question 20

Area surrounded by magenta vignette:

Answer 20

Class E airspace begins at 700 AGL

Question 21

Area surrounded by blue vignette:

Answer 21

Class E airspace begins at 1200 AGL

Question 22

Area surrounded by blue dashed line:

Answer 22

Class D airspace

Question 23

Area surrounded by solid magenta lines

Answer 23

Class C airspace

Question 24

Area surrounded by solid blue lines

Answer 24

Class B airspace

Question 25

Blue hash marked area labeled with P-##

Answer 25

prohibited area

Question 26

Blue hash-marked area labeled with R-##

Answer 26

Restricted area

Question 27

Blue hash-marked area labeled with W-##

Answer 27

Warning area

Question 28

Magenta hash-marked area with MOA-##

Answer 28

Military Operations Area

Question 29

Magenta hash-marked area with A-##

Answer 29

Alert Area

Question 30

Military training route (MTR) depicted w/ 4 digits (ex: VR1207)

Answer 30

Indicates that the route is entirely below 1500 AGL

Question 31

Military training route (MTR) depicted w/ 3 digits (ex: IR211)

Answer 31

Indicates a route that has segments higher than 1500 AGL

Question 32

blue boundary line with dots along the inside of the border:

Answer 32

Special conservation area. Pilots are requested not to fly lower than 2000 AGL

Question 33

Grey boundary line surrounding some Class D airspace:

Answer 33

Terminal radar service areas

Question 34

Magenta flag: underlined in blue

Answer 34

VFR checkpoint. colocated w/ VOR

Question 35

Magenta flag: underlined in magenta

Answer 35

VFR checkpoint. uncontrolled airport

Question 36

Sectional symbol:"Eiffel Tower" symbol w/ dot underneath:

Answer 36

- tower more than 1000ft AGL

Question 37

Sectional symbol: bursts surrounding top of tower symbol:

Answer 37

-Towers w/ high-intensity strobe lighting -NOTAMS may be issued if lights are not operating

Question 38

Sectional symbol: Numbers beside the tower symbols:

Answer 38

-MSL (AGL in parens)

Question 39

Magenta circle w/ dot in the center and dotted pattern, next to a magenta communications box

Answer 39

An NDB (non-directional radio beacon) station that can be used by the ADF

Question 40

Blue box containing 'BS' at the top, a station identifier and a frequency

Answer 40

A commercial AM radio broadcast station that can be used by the ADF