Human Factors
What preparation should a pilot make to adapt the eyes for night flying?
Avoid bright white lights at least 30 minutes before flight.
What documents must be in your personal possession or readily accessible in the aircraft while operating as pilot-in-command of an aircraft?
61.3 - An appropriate pilot certificate, an appropriate current medical certificate, and a government issued photo ID.
Which aircraft has the right-of-way over all other air traffic?
91.113 - An aircraft in distress.
In which type of airspace are VFR flights prohibited?
Class A
What is the purpose of the no entry sign?
Identifies a paved area where aircraft are prohibited from entering.
What is a lack of orientation with regard to the position, attitude, or movement of the aircraft in space defined as?
Spatial disorientation.
A Third Class Medical Certificate is issued to a 36-year-old pilot on August 10, this year. To exercise the privileges of a Private Pilot Certificate, the medical certificate will be valid until midnight when?
61.23 - August 31, 5 years later.
VFR flight in controlled airspace above 1,200 feet AGL and below 10,000 feet MSL requires a minimum visibility and vertical cloud clearance of what?
91.155 - 3 miles, and 500 feet below or 1,000 above the cloud in controlled airspace.
What minimum pilot certification is required for operation within Class B airspace (List 2)?
Private Pilot Certificate or Student Pilot Certificate with appropriate logbook endorsements.
A military air station can be identified by a rotating beacon that emits what colors?
Two quick white flashes between green flashes.
A pilot experiencing the effects of hyperventilation should be able to restore the proper carbon dioxide level in the body by doing what?
Slowing the breathing rate, breathing into a paper bag, or talking aloud.
To act as pilot-in-command of an aircraft carrying passengers, a pilot must show by logbook endorsement the satisfactory completion of a flight review or completion of a pilot proficiency check within the preceding how many months?
61.56 - 24 calendar months.
In addition to other preflight actions for a VFR flight away from the vicinity of the departure airport, regulations specifically require the pilot-in-command to do what?
91.103 - Determine runway lengths at airports of intended use and the aircraft's takeoff and landing distance data. (Remember NWKRAFT).
(Refer to Figure 59, area 3.) The airspace directly overlying the town of Findlay is what?
(Refer to Figure 48.) Area A on the airport depicted is classified as what?
Displaced threshold.
What are the 5 hazardous attitudes and their proper antidotes?
Resignation: You can make a difference.
Anti-Authority: Follow the rules, they're usually right.
Impulsivity: Slow down, think first.
Invulnerability: It can happen to me.
Macho: Taking chances is foolish.
The three takeoffs and landings that are required to act as pilot-in-command at night must be done during what time period?
61.57 - 1 hour after sunset to 1 hour before sunrise.
No person may use an ATC transponder unless it has been tested and inspected within at least the preceding how many months?
91.413/Part 43 Appendix F - 24 calendar months.
(Refer to Figure 25, area 4.) The airspace directly overlying Fort Worth Meacham is what?
Class D airspace to 3,200 feet MSL.
(Refer to Figure 47.) Illustration C indicates that the aircraft is what?
Above the glide slope.
What are the 8 different vestibular/visual illusions pilots are susceptible to?
Inversion, Coriolis, Elevator, False Horizons, Leans, Autokinesis, Graveyard Spin/Spiral, Somatogravic.
With respect to certification of airmen, which are categories of aircraft?
Airplane, rotorcraft, glider, lighter-than-air.
When may an emergency locator transmitter (ELT) be tested?
During the first 5 minutes after the hour.
(Refer to Figure 26, area 1.) Identify the airspace over Tomlinson Airport.
Class G airspace - surface up to but not including 1,200 feet AGL. Class E airspace - 1,200 feet AGL up to but not including 18,000 feet MSL.
(Refer to Figure 49.) Based on the wind triangle indications, what runway is best to land on and what direction traffic pattern should be flown?
Runway 18, right traffic.