Aircraft Types and Parts
Flight Stages and Manoeuvres
Airport Operations and Ground Handling
Weather, Icing, Turbulence
Emergencies, Safety, Communication
100
This aircraft has wings but no engine
What is a glider?
100
The motion:
What is roll?
100
The vehicle used to push an aircraft back from the stand
What is a pushback tug?
100
Ice forming on the aircraft in flight is called this
What is ice accumulation?
100
A water landing
What is ditching?
200
This picture shows a device
What is a winglet (or sharklet)?
200
To raise the nose just before touchdown
What is to flare?
200
The place where aircraft park for loading and unloading
What is the apron?
200
The routine weather report issued regularly by airports
What is a METAR?
200
The instruction meaning "Do not cross the runway"
What is "hold short of"?
300
This device measures the flow velocity of a fluid and can become blocked by icing
What is a pitot tube?
300
To stay in the air in one place
What is to hover?
300
A specialist who guides aircraft using hand signals
Who is a marshaller?
300
This cloud type
What is cumulonimbus cloud?
300
A dangerous situation where an aircraft or vehicle is incorrectly on a runway
What is a runway incursion?
400
These surfaces include the rudder, elevators and ailerons
What are primary flight control surfaces?
400
A manoeuvre consisting of a half-loop followed by a half-roll
What is an Immelmann?
400
This pictures shows a truck
What is snowpough?
400
Storms caused by rising warm air, often producing heavy rain, lightning, or hail
What are convective storms?
400
This is a protective device
What is tailskid?
500
The section of an aircraft that includes the vertical stabiliser, horizontal stabiliser and tailcone
What is the empennage?
500
The term describing the operational limits of an aircraft
What is the flight envelope?
500
This is a sign
What is taxiway location?
500
To have rubber coverings on wings that inflate to break off ice activated
What is to have boots on?
500
Rapid loss of cabin pressure
What is explosive decompression?