Vocabulary
What is invisible electromagnetic waves in the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum longer than infrared light?
What is Radio Waves
What does the engine anti-ice system do?
What is it runs hot air over the compressor over other engine parts to melt ice and prevent any other ice from building?
How do snow and ice change in airfoil?
When a plane is particularly vulnerable to wind shear and microbursts?
What is during takeoffs and landings?
When do sandstorms typically die down?
What is at night as heat escapes Earth’s surface?
What is to orbit at a speed and altitude that keeps satellites in the same place above the Earth at all times?
What is geostationary?
How can ice be hazardous?
What did aircraft Flight 90 need to overcome the airfoil's higher than normal angle of attack?
What is more thrust for a higher airspeed?
What are microbursts often associated with?
What is convective precipitation?
Which is NOT a way a sandstorm can damage aircraft?
What is Flying sand generates heat, which can overtax an engine.
What is the cooling effect of wind on surfaces that can cool an airplanes surface enough that icing occurs?
What is wind chill?
When does icing take place? When an aircraft...
When an aircraft flies through visible water and the temperature where the moisture hits the aircraft is 32 degrees F or colder?
What did the boards report say is snow and ice's most dangerous outcomes?
What is increased drag?
When does a low-level wind shear alert system issue a warning to pilots?
Why when wind speeds differ more than 15 knots?
Why didn’t the storms have much impact on the big aircraft during Operation Eagle Claw?
What is because the C-130s came equipped with radar and infrared sensors?
What is a brittle and frostlike ice formed by the instantaneous freezing of small, supercooled water droplets?
What is Rime Ice?
What are the three types of ice formations?
What is clear ice, rime ice, and mixed ice?
What is the most dangerous types of wind shear?
What is mircroburst?
Where do the strong, dry winds of sandstorms and dust storms generally take place?
What is over arid--hot and dry--lands such as you find in the Middle East or the American Southwest?
What is wake turbulence?
It is a disturbance caused by a pair of vortices trailing from an aircraft’s wingtips?
What it is called when no one is allowed to communicate by radio for security reasons?
What is radio silence?
What can you often feel when an aircraft is about to stall?
What is a buffet?
What can make it very difficult to control and airplane when a pilot runs into a microburst while flying close to the ground?
What is powerful downdrafts and fast changes in wind direction?
Where do sandstorms and dust storms usually form?
What is either in front of or behind a cold front?
When do wingtip vortices form? When an airplane:
What is generates lift?