PPL/Student
AIRSPACE
Weight and Balance
Aeronautics
Pilotage Misc
100

This is the minimum age required to become a private pilot for airplanes, helicopters, or other powered aircraft (excluding gliders or balloons).

What is seventeen years old?

100

Which airspace is known as the upside down wedding cake?

BRAVO

100

W A M stands for...?

What is:

Weight

Arm

Moment

100

How much colder does the air get in Fahrenheit, for every 1,000' in elevation you ASCEND?

What is 3 degrees (or 3.5)

100

This Medical Certificate is required for Airline Transport Pilots privileges.

What is first class medical?

200

To get a private pilot certificate for an airplane single-engine rating, you must log at least this many total hours of flight time, including training and solo time.

What is forty hours?

200

What airspace is up above 18,000 feet?

ALPHA

200

Can you fly if you are over weight and balance?  

Why or why not?  

What is NO...

unless you remove some fuel, etc.

200

What are the 4 H's that are used as reminders of the effects on air performance of climbing in altitude?

(3 out of 4 to be correct)

What are, Heavy weight

Hot temperature

Heavy weight of aircraft

Humid air

200

In the airport traffic pattern, you are departing RWY27.  If you are turning to the crosswind heading after being told to remain NORTH of the field, which way do you turn and to what crosswind heading?

What is a right hand turn to 360

300

Turns about the VERTICAL AXIS are known as changes in...


YAW

300

Which Airspace requires 29.92 be entered as the altimeter, barometric pressure?

ALPHA

300

What if you determine your CG is too far forward, can you fly?

What is YES...

IF you make some location adjustments of weight and recalculate the weight and balance until it works

300

What scientist discovered and wrote about the theories of aviation and LIFT?  The father of how to make an aircrafts wing gain lift...his PRINCIPLES of LIFT are still studied.

Who is Bernoulli  (Bernoulli's Principle)

300

This Medical Certificate is required for Student Pilot, Recreational Pilot, and Private Pilot privileges.

What is third class medical?

400


What is the angle of Attack?


The angle between the chord line of an airfoil and the relative wind

400

What does the C152 rule help us remember regarding weather?

What is, Stay CLEAR of clouds         C

 mile above clouds                          1

500’ below clouds                           5

2000’ beside clouds.                       2


400

This is the center pivot point of the aircraft in Weight and balance calculations.  Depicted as a triangle symbol.

What is the FULCRUM

400

Name one trait of a STANDARD DAY.

What is a barometric setting of 29.92, 

& Temperatures of 59F and 15C?

400

How many runways are at Reagan National Airport?

What are 3 runways

500


A 26 year old female was issued a 1st class medical on 15 August, 2021.  How long will her medical be good, as a 1st class?

31 August, 2022

500

What Airspace is highlighted with SOLID Magenta lines?

What is CHARLIE

Class C

500

This is the location on the airplane, from where the ARMS are measured...

What is the DATUM

500

When checking flight controls during a preflight check, when you turn your yoke to the RIGHT, which ailerons go down?

What are the left ailerons

500

When detecting sparce water in a fuel sample during your preflight, detail what you would see...

What is a CLEAR bubble at the BOTTOM of the fuel sample

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