ACE History
Pilot Qualifications
Airworthiness
Human Factors
Weather
100
Who founded ACE?
Julius J. Alexander
100
What documents must you have with you when you fly?
Certificate
Medical
Gov. Issued ID
100
What are the required documents for a plane to be considered airworthy?
Airworthiness Cert.
Registration
Radio Lic. (If international)
Operating Handbook
W&B
100
What is the checklist to make sure you are safe to fly? Double points if you can list each item in the acronym.
IMSAFE
Illness
Medication
Stress
Alcohol
Fatigue
External Pressures/Eating
100
What causes weather?
The uneven heating of the earth's surface.
200
When was ACE founded
Nov. 22, 1980
200
What are the three types of medicals and what do they each allow you to do?
Double points if you can explain how long they are each valid for if under 40 years old.
1st class: Airline Transport Pilot
2nd class: Commercial Pilot
3rd Class: Private Pilot
All three are valid for 60 cal. months, however, if you have a 1st or 2nd the privelages get downgraded to a 3rd after 12 cal. months.
200
What are the required inspections for an aircraft? Double points if you can say how often they must be done.
Annual (12 cal. months)
VOR if IFR (30 days)
100 hour if for hire (100 hours)
Altimeter / Static / Encoder if IFR
Transponder (24 cal. months)
ELT (24 cal. months)
200
At what altitudes must we use oxygen when flying?
Above 12,500: All crew must use o2 if over 30 mins.
Above 14,000: All crew must use for the entire time.
Above 15,000: All pax must be provided.
200
What are the 6 types of fog?
Bonus 300 if you can explain each.
Radiation (Hot ground, cold moist air)
Advection (Warm moist air blown over cool ground)
Ice (Fog forming below freezing)
Steam (Hot water evaporating into cool air)
Upslope (Moist air pushed up a mountain and cooled)
Precipitation (Rain evaporating)
300
What are the four groups of students at ACE called?
Sparrows, Hawks, Falcons, Eagles
300
What are the privelages and limitations of a private pilot?
Privelage: Carry passengers and act as PIC (100)
Limitations: No compensation, Pro Rata share (200)
PSCRIPT (Bonus 200 if you can list all)
300
As a private pilot you discover that you have a flat tire before a flight, what can be done? Name two people who can fix the problem.
As a private pilot, you can fix this as it is considered preventative mx (Part 43, Apend. A) (200)
A mechanic know as an A&P (100)
300
How long must you wait after consuming alcohol before flying and what is the legal limit?
You must wait at least 8 hours.
Legal limit is .04%
300
What are the ingredients (150) and hazards (150) of a thunderstorm?
Bonus (100) How far should you stay away?
Ingredients: Unstable air, moisture, lifting force
Hazards: Lighting, turbulence, hail, winds, precip.
20nm
400
What are the seven planes in the ACE fleet?
3x Cessna 172s
2x Cessna 310s
1x Piper Commanche
1x Piper Warrior
400
What must you do in order to be current for a night time flight carrying pax?
Bonus: What are the 3 definitions of night?
3 landings to a full stop at night in the last 90 days (200)
Flight review in the last 24 cal. months (200)
Sun set to sun rise, civil twighlight (logging night time), & hour after sun set to hour before sunrise (logging landings) (200)
400
During the walk around for your flight, you discover a broken nav light.
Can you fly this plane for a day time flight? (100)
If yes, what do you have to do first, if no, are you allowed to fix the light yourself? (300)
Yes
You must deactivate the light (pull the circuit), placard it inop, and make a note of it.
400
Why is it a bad idea to fly a plane when you are congested? What might happen?
This could lead to ruptured ear drums as your body is not able to equalize the pressure on the inside and outside.
400
What are the 4 types of fronts? (200)
Explain why the worst one would cause thunderstorms (200)
Warm, Cold, Stationary, Occluded (200)
An occluded front has all three ingredients for a thunderstorm due to a cold front overtaking a warm front and shoving it up (200)
500
What is ACE's mission?
Molding proteges into professionals!
500
Work as a team to list all of the hour requirements in order to become a private pilot.
Hint: There are 8 categories.
Total Time: 40 hours
Instruction: 20 hours
Solo Time: 10 hours
Solo XC Time: 5 hours
Night Instruction: 3 hours
Inst. Instruction: 3 hours
XC Instruction: 3 hours
Checkride Prep: 3 hours
500
What are the items under 91.205 (required equipment).
Airspeed Indicator
Tachometer
Oil Pressure Gauge
Manifold Pressure Gauge*
Altimeter
Temp Gauge*
Oil Temp Gauge
Fuel Gauge
Landing Gear Indicator Light
Anti-Collision Light
Magnetic Heading Indicator
ELT
Safety Belt
500
List out the four types of hypoxia and what their causes are.
Hypoxic: Lack of o2 entering the body.
Hypemic: Sickness/Disease affecting blood cells.
Histotoxic: Toxins in your body affecting blood cells.
Stagnant: Blood not moving around your body.
500
You are planning a flight from east to west across the US, there is large high pressure system in your way. You would like to get to your destination as fast as possible, do you fly to the north or south of this system? (300)
Why? (200)
You fly to the south of it because high pressure systems spin clockwise