Risk refers to

• A. The future impact of a hazard that is not eliminated or controlled.
• B. The four fundamental risk elements in aviation.
• C. See RNAV.
• D. See RMI.

Answer: (A)

Risk is the potential future harm that could result from a hazard if no action is taken to eliminate or control it. In aviation safety, you identify hazards and then assess how likely they are to cause adverse effects and how severe those effects could be, with the understanding that mitigation reduces that risk. The statement that risk is the future impact of a hazard that isn’t eliminated or controlled captures this idea: if you remove or mitigate the hazard, the risk decreases or disappears. The other options don’t describe risk itself—one isn’t a standard, fixed set of elements in aviation, and the others refer to unrelated concepts (RNAV, RMI).