According to the priority guidance, which statement is true?

• A. Three minutes from the boundary is higher priority than five minutes from the boundary
• B. Five minutes from the boundary is higher priority than three minutes from the boundary
• C. An emergency coordination is a higher priority than stripmarking
• D. Priority is determined by altitude alone

Answer: (C)

Prioritization hinges on urgency and safety risk, not on simple metrics like distance from a boundary or altitude. In the priority guidance, emergencies have the highest level of urgency because they involve imminent danger to people or critical operations. Coordinating an emergency therefore takes precedence over routine tasks such as stripmarking, making that statement the true one. The distance-from-boundary options rely on proximity as a measure, which the guidance does not use to rank priority across task types, and priority is not determined by altitude alone since urgency and risk drive the order of actions regardless of elevation.