AERODYNAMICS
SYSTEMS
WEATHER
ADM
NAVIGATION
100
What are the four forces of flight?
Lift, weight, thrust, and drag.
100
What are the pitot-static instruments?
Altimeter, VSI, and Airspeed Indicator.
100
What are the three requirements for thunderstorms to form?
Unstable atmosphere, lifting force, and sufficient moisture.
100
What is the IMSAFE checklist?
Illness, Medication, Stress, Alcohol, Fatigue, Eating/Emotion/Exercise (idk pick one).
100
What is the difference between dead reckoning and pilotage?
Dead reckoning uses specific calculation of time, speed, distance, heading, etc. while pilotage is simply navigating by fixed visual landmarks.
200
Name and describe the four left turning tendencies.
Engine Torque, P-factor, Gyroscopic Precession, and Spiraling Slipstream.
200
How does cabin heat work?
Inlet air is routed through a shroud around the hot exhaust pipes and taken into the cabin.
200
Name the different types of fog.
Advection, upslope, radiation, steam, ice, freezing, valley, and precipitation fog.
200
When does preflight planning begin?
When the flight is conceived.
200
What must you always do before using a VOR?
Tune, Identify, Monitor (TIM).
300
What is adverse yaw, and how do you counteract it?
The raised wing in a turn creates more lift and more induced drag while the lowered creates less of both. The increased induced drag on the raised wing slightly pulls the nose of the plane in the opposite direction of the turn.
300
Draw out the fuel system of a carbureted C172.
300
How close must the temperature and dew point be for visible moisture to occur?
Within 2 degrees celsius.
300
What is the 3P Model?
Perceive (PAVE), Process (CARE), Perform (ME).
300
How would you use a sectional chart to calculate heading to fly?
A plotter and some big brain math.
400
Draw out the forces in a turn (ignore thrust and drag).
400
How is the turn coordinator’s gyroscope aligned?
30 degrees up from the longitudinal axis on the airplane.
400
Wavy cloud bases are mainly formed because of:
Wind shear.
400
You haven’t drank alcohol in 11 hours but still feel hungover. Can you legally fly?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! You cannot act as a crewmember of an airplane if you've had alcohol in the past eight hours, and/or have a BAC of 0.04% or higher, and/or while under the influence of alcohol (FAR 91.17).
400
How does a VOR work?
Emits 360 radials in all directions from the station and we use a VOR receiver in the airplane and a CDI/OBS to track to/from the station.
500
What is the lift equation?
L = CL*1/2ρ* v2*SA
500
What do the numbers on circuit breakers mean?
Maximum number of amps passed through the breaker before it pops.
500
An urgent PIREP is indicated by the use of what three letters?
UUA.
500
You notice your ammeter is discharging around 40 KIAS on your takeoff roll. What do you do and why?
Continue the takeoff and fly a traffic pattern. The risks associated with aborting a takeoff at higher speeds are significantly higher than flying with a discharging ammeter for less than ten minutes.
500
What is WAAS?
Wide Area Augmentation System. It makes your GPS even MORE accurate using three geostationary satellites and ground stations to reduce errors.