Regulation & Rules
Unless otherwise authorized, this is the maximum indicated airspeed below 10,000 feet MSL.
What is 250 knots?
This cloud type should immediately make a pilot think thunderstorms, turbulence, icing, and potentially hail.
What is cumulonimbus?
Increasing aircraft weight causes stall speed to do this.
What is increase?
This instrument uses both the pitot and static systems.
What is the airspeed indicator?
This aircraft became the first to break the sound barrier in controlled level flight.
What is the Bell X-1?
When two aircraft of the same category are converging at approximately the same altitude, this aircraft has the right-of-way.
What is the aircraft to the other's right?
A temperature-dew point spread that is rapidly decreasing should make a pilot increasingly concerned about this.
What is fog/low clouds?
In a coordinated level turn, increasing bank angle causes load factor and this speed to increase.
What is stall speed?
If the static port becomes completely blocked but the pitot tube remains clear, this instrument behaves essentially like an altimeter.
What is the airspeed indicator?
The “Gimli Glider” was this type of airliner when it famously ran out of fuel in 1983.
What is a Boeing 767?
Unless otherwise specified, this is the minimum altitude over a congested area: 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within this horizontal distance.
What 2,000 feet?
An approaching warm front is commonly associated with this general sequence of cloud development.
What is high clouds gradually lowering and thickening?
An aircraft's center of gravity moving aft generally makes it less stable and does this to stall recovery.
What is make recovery more difficult?
On a VOR, a centered CDI with a FROM indication and 360 selected means the aircraft is located somewhere along this radial.
What is the 360° radial?
This aviation pioneer disappeared in 1937 while attempting to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
A pilot flying VFR at 7,500 feet MSL on a magnetic course of 270° would normally select this cruising altitude instead.
What is 6,500 or 8,500 feet MSL?
A pilot flying beneath a thunderstorm anvil may still encounter this hazardous precipitation many miles from the storm itself.
What is hail?
In a 60° banked, constant-altitude coordinated turn, the aircraft experiences approximately this load factor.
What is 2 Gs?
Your heading indicator shows 090°, but your magnetic compass shows an increasing disagreement after prolonged straight-and-level flight. This instrument should be periodically realigned to the compass.
What is the heading indicator/directional gyro?
This aircraft holds the distinction of being the fastest crewed, air-breathing operational aircraft.
What is the SR-71 Blackbird?
Following an engine failure at night, FAR 91.3 ultimately gives this person final authority and responsibility for operation of the aircraft.
Who is the pilot in command?
You fly from an area of high pressure toward lower pressure without resetting the altimeter. Your actual altitude will be this compared with indicated altitude.
What is lower? (“High to low, look out below.”)
An aircraft stalls at 50 knots in 1-G flight. In a level 60° bank turn at 2 Gs, its approximate stall speed becomes this.
What is about 71 knots?
You're tracking inbound on the 180° course to a VOR. Assuming no wind, your approximate heading is this.
What is 360°?
In 1982, all four engines of British Airways Flight 9 temporarily failed after the Boeing 747 flew through a cloud composed of this.
What is volcanic ash?