Pitot-Static System
Pitot-Static Instruments
Pitot-Static Instruments
Gyroscopic Instruments
Gyroscopes & Other
100
The two types of pressure used in aviation.
Static pressure and pitot pressure.
100
What instrument measures the rate of change in feet/minute?
The VSI!
100
Which instrument indicates the altitude?
The altimeter.
100
Give an everyday example of a gyroscope.
What is figure skaters, bikes?
100
A plane flying at Mach 1 is flying how many times the speed of sound?
What is 1?
200
Static pressure measures...
The atmospheric pressure surrounding the aircraft.
200
The red line on the ASI.
What is the VNE?
200
Name and describe the only VSI error.
Lag error, 6-9 seconds delay.
200
This instrument is known as an 'Artificial Horizon' and aids the pilot during periods of poor visibility.
What is the Attitude Indicator?
200
The tendency of a rotating body, when a force is applied perpendicular to its plane of rotation, to turn in the direction of its rotation 90 degrees to its axis and take up a new plane of rotation parallel to the force applied.
What is (Gyroscopic) Precession?
300
Pitot pressure measures...
The pressure created by the forward motion of the aircraft.
300
The pitot tube is located on this side of most airplanes. (Hint: the wing).
What is below the left wing?
300
True or false? The ASI measures airspeed as well as groundspeed.
False.
300
The Directional Gyro (DG) is more commonly referred to as?
The Heading Indicator (HI)
300
This characteristic is also known as rigidity in space.
What is Gyroscopic Inertia?
(The tendency of a rotating object to remain in its plane of rotation.)
400
What is used to cover the pitot tubes at glider?
Paper bags!
400
Pressure altitude corrected for temperature.
What is density altitude?
400
What is Calibrated Airspeed (CAS)?
The IAS corrected for instrument (lag) and position error.
400
Name 2 gyroscopic power sources.
What are engine-driven vacuum system and electrically driven?
400
Has colour-coded ranges.
The AOA indicator (not the ASI since it must be a gyroscope!)
500
How many instruments are connected to the pitot-static system?
Three: the ASI, VSI, and altimeter.
500
Name the "clean" stall speed.
What is the VSL?
500
Why is the pitot tube located underneath most aircraft.
Visibility for the pilot, direction of engine rotation, slipstream from the propeller.
500
The turn and slip indicator is showing the needle and the ball to the left. What is the pilot's direction of the turn and its state (coordinated, skidding, slipping).
Left slipping turn. (needle shows direction and ball shows coordination, or a lack thereof).
500
2 minutes to complete a 360 degree turn is called a...
Standard (rate one) turn.