Student Pilot Basics
This is the minimum age required to earn a student pilot certificate.
What is 16 years old
This is the name of the FAA written exam that a student pilot must take.
What is the knowledge test
This class of airspace surrounds the nation’s busiest airports and requires a clearance.
What is Class B Airspace?
This is the total number of flight hours required for an ATP certificate.
What is 1,500 hours?
FAA
WHAT is Federal Aviation Administration
These are the three documents a student pilot must have while flying solo.
What are a student pilot certificate, medical certificate, and photo ID?
This is the main purpose of doing a preflight inspection.
What is to make sure the airplane is safe to fly
This is the temperature at which water vapor turns into liquid droplets.
What is Dew Point
This is the minimum age required to get an ATP certificate.
What is 23 years old?
These controls are used by pilots to move the airplane’s pitch and roll.
What are the yoke
This person must endorse a student pilot’s logbook before their first solo flight.
Who is the flight instructor?
This instrument in the cockpit shows your altitude.
What is the altimeter
This violent downdraft near thunderstorms can be deadly during takeoff or landing.
What is wind shear or microburst?
ATP
What is Airline Transport Pilot
This term describes the speed of sound in aviation.
What is MACH 1
This certificate never expires, but the endorsements on it do.
What is the student pilot certificate?
VFR
What is Visual Flight Rules
This type of weather report gives hourly weather observations.
What is a METAR?
These types of operations can be commanded by an ATP pilot.
What are airline or air carrier operations?
This color is what the black box actually is.
What is bright orange?
This endorsement is needed for a student pilot to fly solo to another airport.
What is a cross-country endorsement?
This is the minimum number of flight hours required for a private pilot license.
What is 40 hours
This airspace covers high-altitude operations starting at 18,000 feet MSL.
What is Class A
This is one major responsibility that an ATP pilot has compared to a private pilot.
What is acting as Pilot in Command of an air carrier operation
This device records flight information used in accident investigations.
What is the flight data recorder?