Meteorology
The name of the layer between the Troposphere and the Stratosphere.
What is the Tropopause?
The shortest distance between two points on earth.
What is a great circle?
The effect of flying from a hot to cold location on the altimeter.
What is the altimeter will over-read (actual altitude will be less than indicated)?
The straight line between the leading edge of a wing and the trailing edge
What is the chord?
This person does not require a seat belt on board airplanes
Who are infants under the age of 2 years?
The conversion of a substance from the solid to the gaseous state without its becoming liquid
What is sublimation?
A straight line on a VNC represents most closely
What is a great circle track?
The boundary zone between two air masses where a large change of temperature occurs within a relatively short distance.
What is a front?
Whether or not a wing is stalled depends on this.
What is the angle of attack, only?
How the CARS define "night"
What is the period from the end of evening civil twilight to the beginning of morning civil twilight?
A downburst which is less than 2 NM in horizontal extent and lasts less than 5 minutes.
What is a microburst?
Latitude lines are parallel to this.
What is the equator?
Weather changes observed during the approach of a cold front.
What is showers turning to heavy rain / snow / hail?
The measure of how long you can keep flying on a given amount of fuel
What is Endurance?
The pressure aviation instruments need to be set to in the Standard Pressure Region
What is 29.92"Hg?
The layer of the atmosphere where most of the weather occurs.
What is the the Troposphere?
You require dat from this number of satellites to get a 30D positional fix.
What is 4 satellites?
The definition of TAF
What is the Terminal Area Forecast?
The angle between the chord of the wing and the relative airflow
What is the angle of attack?
The minimum age to obtain a PPL in Canada.
What is 17?
The minimum distance to circumnavigate a thunderstorm on the upwind side.
What is 3NM?
This is half of a great circle and joins the poles of earth.
What is a meridian? Or what is a longitudinal line?
The names of the air masses commonly occurring over Canada.
What are Continental Artic, Maritime Artic, Maritime Polar, and Maritime Tropical?
The fastest part of the propeller when spinning
What is the propeller tip?
The number of Flight Information Regions (FIR) in the Canadian Domestic Airspace?
Double points if you can name them all within 15 seconds!
What are seven?
Double points for naming them:
Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Moncton, Gander Domestic.