Aircraft Systems
This control surface, found on the horizontal stabilizer, controls your PITCH.
What is the elevator?
These are the two main types of drag in aviation.
What is induced drag and parasite drag?
This is the type of day you're about to have if ATC gives you a number to call.
What is a really bad day?
This is the frequency you would tune to to listen to the current weather information at an airport.
What is the ATIS/AWOS/ASOS?
These are the two words used when VERBALLY describing longitude and latitude coordinates.
These small tabs are found on the primary control surfaces and can be slightly adjusted to help alleviate control pressures necessary to maintain stable flight.
What are trim tabs?
This is the potentially dangerous phenomenon that occurs when airflow separates from the wing surface, causing the aircraft to lose lift.
What is a stall?
This is "Lakeland" if it were verbally spelled using the phonetic alphabet.
What is Lima, Alpha, Kilo, Echo, Lima, Alpha, November, Delta?
This is the main cause for ALL weather phenomena on Earth.
What is the uneven heating of the Earth's surface?
On a VFR sectional chart, this is the color used to depict an airport that does NOT have a control tower.
What is magenta?
This electronic piece of equipment sends out a four digit code to help ATC identify you on radar.
What is the transponder?
This is the specific Angle of Attack (AOA) that would cause a stall if you were to exceed it.
What is the critical AOA?
This is the type of taxiway centerline that alerts pilots that they are coming up on a runway hold-short line.
What is an enhanced centerline?
This is the term used to describe a slow-moving warm air mass taking the place of a cooler air mass, causing murky, gross weather followed by warmer temperatures.
What is a "warm front"?
On a VFR sectional chart, this is how the airport information would tell you that a particular airport has pilot-controlled lighting available.
What is an asterisk before the letter "L"?
This protrusion (normally found on the wings or on the nose) senses dynamic air pressure and works with the static port to give you an airspeed reading.
What is the pitot tube?
When making a turn in an airplane, this is the aerodynamic force that acts against your desired turn, pulling you in the opposite direction.
What is adverse yaw?
This specific type of altitude is your actual height above the ground/terrain below you.
Above Ground Level (AGL)
This is the coded text-format of an ATIS briefing, also published hourly.
What is a METAR?
On a VFR sectional chart, this is how the airport information would tell you that a particular airport has a part-time tower.
What is a star?
These spinning electromagnets, driven by the rotational movement of the engine, provide the electricity needed for the sparkplugs.
What are the magnetos?
This is the specific type of parasite drag that is dependent on the SIZE of the aircraft you're flying.
What is form drag?
This specific type of altitude is your height above sea level.
Mean Sea Level (MSL)
These are the three types of icing that can form on an aircraft.
What are rime, clear, and mixed icing?
When navigating visually, this is the symbol used on a VFR sectional chart to indicate landmarks that would be good to use as outside visual reference points both for navigation and ATC position reporting purposes.
What is a magenta flag?