Aircraft Systems
The number of cylinders in our engine
What is 6?
Atmospheric composition
What is 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% other trace gases?
Where this overcast layer starts
OVC070
What is 7000' AGL?
The distance from FFZ to A39, direct. Notes allowed.
What is 30NM?
Tuscon International's airspace type
What is class charlie?
During flight you notice the vacuum gauge is not reading any suction, what instruments are affected?
What are the heading indicator and attitude indicator?
The name for extreme windshear
What does PIREP stand for?
What is pilot report?
The distance the deams a cross-country flight
The duration of a third class medical, under the age of 40.
What is 60 calendar months?
The four strokes of a reciprocating engine
What are the intake, compression, power and exhaust strokes?
Also acceptable:
Suck, squeeze, bang, blow
Two types of fog
What are radiation/advection/upslope/steam/freezing/frontal?
Name one type of AIRMET
Explain pilotage and dead reckoning
What is pilotage is navigation by reference to landmarks or checkpoints?
What is dead reckoning is navigation solely by means of computations based on time?
The four left-turning tendencies
What is the airspeed indicator uses BOTH, the altimeter and vertical speed indicator use ONLY the static port?
The four types of fronts
Convert to local time.
0240Z
What is 1940 local time?
0240 - 7 = 1940Z
The correction from calibrated airspeed to true airspeed. The correction from true airspeed to ground speed.
What is true airspeed is calibrated airspeed corrected for non-standard temperature?
Ground speed is true airspeed corrected for the winds?
The two weather pressure systems and how they are characterized
What are high and low pressure systems?
High = clockwise, outwards and down
Low = counterclockwise, inwards and up
The alternator has failed. Which instruments are affected? Does the engine still run? Could you still use the radio to notify ATC?
The turn coordinator
The engine still runs
Yes, you have limited time to use the battery without the alternator.
The three stages of a thunderstorm and how to tell them apart
What are cumulus, mature and dissipating?
Cumulus is distinguished by updrafts and vertical development
Mature is distinguished by the beginning of rain and the most violent stage
Dissipating is distinguished by downdrafts, and the flattening at the top (anvil)
Decode these winds and temperature.
781939
What is the wind direction is 280 (78-50, add the zero), the velocity is 119 (19+100) and the temperature is -39 degrees C?
The difference between nautical miles and statue miles.
What is nautical miles account for the earth's curvature, therefore they are longer?
During flight, some of the baggage in your aircraft shifts from the back seats to the baggage compartment. This shift causes some changes in the aircrafts flight charecteristics. Name three.
What is a further AFT C.G leads to these charecteristics:
Higher cruise speed, more fuel effecient, worse stall recovery, lower stall speed, lower stability, easy to overstress?