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JNTU B.Tech III AIR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS Previous Question Paper (November/December - 2018 - R13)
Part A is compulsory (25 marks). Part B consists of 5 Units. Answer any one full question from each unit (10 marks each).
Part A
Write about economic impact types in air transportation industry.
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The economic impacts of air transportation are categorized into direct impacts (employment and revenue generated by airlines and airports), indirect impacts (supply chain spending), induced impacts (spending by employees), and catalytic impacts (facilitation of trade, tourism, and foreign investment).
Abbreviate the following: i) ICAO ii) IATA iii) DGCA iv) FAA
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i) ICAO: International Civil Aviation Organization
ii) IATA: International Air Transport Association
iii) DGCA: Directorate General of Civil Aviation
iv) FAA: Federal Aviation Administration
Write a note on Airspace Demand and Delay.
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What is CNSS and ACARS?
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List out various cost of Airports.
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What do you mean by Indirect operating costs?
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Explain Airport capacity.
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What is the need for Obstacle safeguarding?
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What are the objectives of Modern Airlines?
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Define scheduling in airline.
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Unit I
Taking in to consideration the history of aviation, Explain the development, growth, challenges in present Aerospace industry.
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Comment on the oligopolistic nature of the airline industry and give points to support your comments.
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Explain in detail the Airline industry structure with the help of flow chart and illustrate the functions of its components.
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Describe the managerial functions of Aviation industry authorities with neat sketches.
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Unit II
Give a brief about ICAO future air navigation systems (FANS) and its advantages and disadvantages when compared to existing systems.
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Explain the role of Secondary surveillance radar (SSR) in the aviation signaling process with neat schematic diagram.
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Describe in detail the categories of Airspace classes.
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What are the Air traffic control equipments? Explain any two equipments with suitable sketches.
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Unit III
Explain the terms Efficiency and its effectiveness on aircraft.
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Explain the operational aspects of an Airline and Airport. What are the major hurdles in their development? Discuss.
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Explain the role indirect cost in the aviation budgets for the airline growth and its development.
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Compare the technical field and administrative field and its contribution to performance.
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Unit IV
On what basis Airport terminal sizing will be done? And how it is configured?
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Explain the need for the Maneuvering area, airfield lighting in the airport.
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Passengers terminals plays an important role in the airport environment: Write the terminal entrance role in the airport and security process.
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Explain the process of evaluating runway capacity. Also explain the types of runways.
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Unit V
Describe the modeling aspects of departure and arrival processes at airports using queuing theory.
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What is regulatory compliance? Explain its importance for airlines with suitable sketches.
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How buying and leasing of aircraft will affect the revenue of airline industry?
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Explain Economy Class passenger seating arrangement as per ICAO regulations.
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