ERAU Flight Operations Manual
A student is considered to have __-________ if the student fails to check in prior to their activity start time for any reason.
What is a no-show?
___% attendance is mandatory.
What is 100 percent?
This is the force of flight which counteracts weight.
What is lift?
This is created by the movement of air from high pressure towards low pressure around the end of the wing structure.
What is a wingtip vorticy?
This is the control surface used to roll the aircraft.
What are the ailerons?
Ryan Albrecht
Who is the chief flight instructor?
This is how soon any absences must be made up, in days.
What is 7 days?
This force is the result of the propeller generating horizontal lift.
What is thrust?
This is the left turning tendency that is associated with Newton's third law.
What is torque reaction?
This is the fuselage design of the Cessna 172.
What is a semi-monocoque fuselage design?
Parker Northrup
Who is the flight department chair?
This percentage is required to earn a "passing score" on the stage and end-of-course exams.
What is 80 percent?
This is the type of drag which is increased at lower speeds, when the aircraft creates a large amount of lift.
What is induced drag?
This is the speed of minimum drag on a Cessna 172
What is 68 knots?
This is the landing gear style on the Cessna 172
What is a tricycle aircraft gear?
If, for medical reasons a student feels unfit to fly, the student shall initiate a cancellation process at least __ minutes prior to the activity start time shown in ETA.
What is 30 minutes?
This is the amount of excused absences which a student is permitted, per semester.
What is 5 excused absences?
These are the three types of parasite drag.
What is form drag, interference drag, and skin friction drag?
This is the force that opposes a horizontal component of lift in a turn.
What is centrifugal force?
This material, used to construct airplanes, can be subject to heat damage.
What is a composite aircraft structure?
A minimum of ___% battery power on the student's iPad is required to begin a local flight.
What is 50 percent?
This is the amount of unexcused absences which a student is permitted, per semester.
What are 3 unexcused absences?
This is the point where weight is applied on the airplane.
What is the center of gravity?
This is how an aircraft responds to a disturbance over time, and these are the three ways in which the aircraft may react to that disturbance over time?
What is positive, neutral, and negative dynamic stability?
This is the engine design in the Cessna 172
100 BONUS POINTS:
How much horsepower is the Cessna 172?
What is a horizontally opposed engine?