Airplane Engine
A chemical substance which is used as a source of energy.
What is fuel?
The airplane component that provides power to start the engine.
What is battery?
An instrument that displays the rotation speed of the propeller.
What is a tachometer?
An airport with an operating control tower.
What is a controlled airport?
A system of lines that run parallel to the equator, also known as parallels.
What are latitude?
A device that generates small bolts of lightning to ignite the mixture in the cylinder.
What is a spark plug?
The device that charges the battery and powers the electrical system of the airplane.
What is an alternator?
An airplane cockpit where most (or all) instrument readings are displayed on electronic screens.
What is a glass cockpit?
The regulatory authority for all aviation in the United States.
What is Federal Aviation Administration?
A unit of length that is approximately 6076 feet, or 1852 meters.
What is a nautical mile?
A process of changing the fuel to air mixture so that it contains less fuel and more air.
What is leaning?
An automatic switch designed to protect an electrical circuit from damage caused by excess current.
What is a circuit breaker?
The instrument that senses the change of air pressure and displays it as a rate of climb or descent.
What is a vertical velocity indicator?
The phonetic alphabet uses this word for letter T.
An illustration showing the symbols that are used on charts.
What is a legend?
These are names of the four cycles of the airplane engine.
What are intake, compression, power, and exhaust?
An instrument that monitors the electrical current, or flow, in the airplane cockpit.
What is an ammeter?
These are flight instruments that are powered by spinning gyroscopes.
What are attitude indicator, turn coordinator and heading indicator?
A set of indicators, usually surrounding an airport’s wind sock, that provide traffic pattern information to a pilot in the air.
What is a segmented circle?
A most commonly used chart specifically designed for aviation use and Visual Flight Rules, with the scale being 1:500,000.
What is a sectional?
An engine that uses one or more pistons to convert pressure into a rotating motion.
What is a reciprocating engine?
The device that functions based on the principle called rigidity in space.
What is a gyroscope?
A device on the airframe that lets the relative wind flow into the airplane to measure the pressure differential.
What is a pitot tube?
The most common lighting system that gives pilots a visual indication of the proper approach angle during the landing.
What is the Visual Approach Slope Indicator?
The name of the conic map projection method used for aeronautical charts. The method was invented in 1772 by Johann Heinrich Lambert.
What is Lambert conformal conic projection?