Warnings
The alarm used to alert pilots that the wings are actively losing lift.
What is "STALL"?
The term used to tell pilots that they are going fast enough to takeoff.
What is V1?
What is the Landing Gear?
What the front of the plane is called.
What is the Nose?
What is the TCAS?
The alarm used to alert pilots that oxygen is leaking out of the cabin.
What is "Cabin Altitude"?
To begin taking off, the pilot must go at V1 then _______.
What is "pull up"?
What a pilot must do to avoid a bad landing.
What is "Pull Up"?
The flaps that come upwards on some Boeings to slow the plane down. (NOT THE FLAPS)
What are the Speedbrakes?
The system that tells the pilots how close they are to the ground, and also alerts them of nearby terrain.
What is the GPWS?
The alarm used to alert pilots about smoke in the cabin. (varies on the plane and what sensors it is equipped with)
What is "Cabin Smoke"?
An alarm that may go off if the airplane begins decending towards the runway after takeoff.
What is "DON'T SINK"?
The minimum altitude you are allowed to be at (on a commercial plane) if you are not landing.
What is 2,500 FT? (AKA Minimums)
The part of the plane that allows you to go perfectly straight.
What is the Vertical Stabilizer?
What the pilots hear when the stabilizer begins moving on it's own.
What is "BRRRRR STABILZER MOTION"?
The alarm used to tell the pilots that they are going at an extremely dangerous bank and are risking snapping a wingtip.
What is "Bank Angle"?
The thing a pilot MUST attempt to avoid the most during takeoff.
The type of landing a helicopter does. (usually)
What is a Vertical Landing?
The "fancy" term for the body of a plane.
What is the Fuselage?
The term for when a pilot passes out from too many g-forces in a fighter jet.
What is "G-LOC"?
The alarm that can (and most likely will) go off if you were to flip a commercial plane upside down. (not the only circumstance)
What is "Oil Press"?
If the plane is too close to the end of the runway during takeoff (and possibly landing), this alarm will go off.
What is "RUNWAY TOO SHORT"?
The zone the plane must attempt to land in.
What is the Touchdown Zone?
The "super fancy" name for all of the tail.
What is the "Empennage"?
A fire in a plane that can cause black, toxic smoke to rise up from behind the instruments in the cockpit.
What is an APU Fire?