Principles of Flight
This control surface is responsible for rolling and "turning" the aircraft.
What are the Ailerons?
This agency is responsible for creating and enforcing aviation regulations.
What is the Federal Aviation Administration?
These are vertical lines going north to south across the planet
What are lines of Longitude?
This was the first airfield in the Las Vegas area.
What is Anderson Field?
You must be this old to hold a private pilot certificate
What is 17?
This device can increase the surface area of a wing and lower the stall speed.
What are flaps?
This agency is responsible for investigating accidents and recommending solutions.
What is the National Transportation Safety Board?
These are horizontal lines that stretch all the way around the planet
What are lines of Latitude?
This place started out as nothing but a dirt strip, a shack and a well.
What is Nellis AFB?
This idiom represents the legal time from when an airman may not act as a crew member after consuming alcohol.
What is 8 hours bottle to throttle?
This happens when you exceed the critical angle of attack.
What is a stall?
The agency that enforces FAA regulations and is responsible for most aviation activity in Southern Nevada
What is the Clark County Department of Aviation?
This symbol represents an airport with hard surfaced runways longer than 1500 feet but not longer than 8,069 feet.
What is a shaded circle?
This airline was one of the first to both carry passengers and deliver the mail at the same time.
What is Western Air Express?
This is the abbreviation for Notice to Airmen.
What is a NOTAM?
These are the four forces of flight.
What is lift, weight, thrust and drag?
These refer to a type of publication offered by the Federal Aviation Administration to provide guidance for compliance with airworthiness regulations, pilot certification, operational standards, training standards, and any other rules within the 14 CFR Aeronautics and Space Title
What are Advisory Circulars?
Solid blue lines surrounding an airport indicate it is this type of airspace.
What is Class Bravo?
This act established the Civil Aeronautics Board and Civil Aeronautics Authority.
What is the Civil Aeronautics Act?
This airspace requires that you have an instrument rating and be on an instrument (IFR) flight plan.
What is Class A?
This shows the relationship of an increase in velocity in a liquid or gas and a decrease in pressure as the result.
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
These are notifications to owners and operators of certified aircraft that a known safety deficiency with a particular model of aircraft, engine, avionics or other system exists and must be corrected.
What are Airworthiness Directives?
A segmented magenta circle around an airport indicates that it is inside which airspace?
This act charged the Secretary of Commerce with fostering air commerce, issuing and enforcing air traffic rules, licensing pilots, certifying aircraft, establishing airways, and operating and maintaining aids to air navigation.
What is the Air Commerce Act?
To fly an aircraft that is powered by a turbo-jet engine, is over 12,500 lbs or anything that the FAA deems necessary, you must have this.
What is a type rating?