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These large, bold blue numbers shown in each quadrant of a sectional chart indicate the highest known terrain or obstacle.
What is the maximum elevation figure?
The Wright Brothers achieved the first controlled airplane flight in 1903 in the Outer Banks, located near this coastal town.
Where is Kitty Hawk/Kill Devil Hills?
VFR pilots must complete a special training course to fly within the Washington DC SFRA. This special airspace is centered around which major US Airport?
What is Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (KDCA)?
On non-fuel-injected piston engines, this device mixes fuel with incoming air before sending it to the induction manifold.
What is a carburetor?
One step below "mayday", this urgency radio call is used for serious situations that do not quite warrant an immediate emergency declaration.
What is Pan-Pan?
On a sectional chart, a small star printed directly at the top of an airport's circular symbol indicates that the airfield features this.
What is a rotating beacon?
Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) serves as the hub for this major US airline.
This popular NC airport, after several oopsie woopsies, was restricted from usage for Wings of Carolina Flying Club members.
Where is Gilliam-McConnell Airfield (BQ1)?
Supplementing or replacing the traditional vacuum instruments, this electronic system consists of solid state gyros, an accelerometer, and a magnetometer.
What is AHRS (attitude and heading reference system)?
During the winter of 2009, US Airways 1549 suffered a double engine failure and was famously forced to ditch in this river.
Where is the Hudson River?
These dashed magenta lines drawn across a VFR sectional indicate areas where the magnetic variation is equal.
What are isogonic lines?
These two North Carolina Outer Bank airports are renowned vacation destinations, due to their presence directly on the beach.
Where are Ocracoke (W95) and Hatteras (KHSE)?
In a notorious 2003 midnight raid, the mayor of this city ordered bulldozers to secretly carve giant Xs into the runway of this beloved downtown waterfront airport, permanently destroying it.
Where is Chicago?
Designed to mechanically counteract adverse yaw, this style of aileron is rigged so the upward-deflecting surface moves upward a greater angle than the downward-deflecting surface moves downward.
What is differential ailerons?
In 1983, Air Canada Flight 143 was forced into an emergency landing as a result of this comical loading error.
What is confusing pounds and kilograms of fuel?
A solid blue line accompanied by a row of dots on the inside marks the boundary of a National Park or Wildlife Refuge, over which pilots are requested to maintain at least this altitude.
What is 2,000 feet AGL
In January 1961, a B-52 Stratofortress broke up mid-air over this eastern North Carolina town, accidentally dropping two live multi-megaton nuclear bombs into the farmland below.
Where is Goldsboro?
Featuring a massive horse statue known locally as "Blucifer", this airport is the subject of numerous conspiracy theories involving the Illuminati and underground bunkers.
Where is Denver International Airport (DEN)?
Due to magnetos' weak electric generation at low crank speeds, this spring-loaded device briefly holds then releases the magneto rotor to properly spark the engine during startup.
What is the impulse coupling?
In 1971, this unidentified man operating under an alias famously hijacked a Boeing 727, extorted $200,000 in ransom, and parachuted out the rear airstair. He was never found.
Who is D.B Cooper?
This major National Park underlies one of only two blue vignettes in the Lower 48 denoting Class G airspace up to 14,500MSL.
Where is Big Bend National Park?
Founded out of Raleigh-Durham International Airport in 1969, this airline was the first African-American owned airline certificated in the United States.
What was Wheeler Airlines?
To direct traffic away from the major city core, Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (KHNL) controversially had to construct a new 12,000 runway on this feature.
What is a coral reef?
These small tabs prevent the aircraft's attitude indicator gyro from shifting.
What are pendulous vanes?
In May 1987, an 18-year-old 50-hour West German amateur pilot, Mathias Rust, stunned the world when he successfully piloted to and landed a Cessna 172 in this location.
What is Moscow Red Square?