History
On September 19th, 1783, this type of aircraft utilizing heated air made its first flight
What is the hot air balloon?
The "PAVE" checklist is an acronym for these items
What is pilot, aircraft, environment, and external pressures?
The purpose of wing flaps
What is to make steeper approaches at lower airspeeds?
Aircraft position lights must be turned on between these two periods
What is sunset to sunrise?
The axis that runs from wingtip to wingtip, Sideways through the plane.
What is the Lateral Axis
The Ornithopter was invented by this Italian polymath
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
The type of checklist where each item is read from the checklist and then immediately completed before moving on to the next item
What is a do-list?
During a turn to the left, which aileron is deflected downward?
What is the right aileron?
Under CFR 14 Part 91, a pilot needs to complete a flight review every...
What is 24 calendar months
The direction of the aileron when the yolk is turned left.
What is up?
The first commercial airliner to travel at supersonic speed
What is The Concorde
A set of step-by-step instructions compiled by an organization to help workers carry out routine operations
What is SOPs(Standard Operating Procedures)?
What is conventional gear?
With regard to a 1st class medical certificate, the valid period of 3rd class privileges if the pilot is under 40 years of age
What is 60 calendar months?
An undesirable byproduct of turning
What is Adverse Yaw?
The first fully stealth aircraft
What is the F-117 Nighthawk?
The photoreceptors that detect movement and are most effective during low-light situations
What are rods?
The thing that makes a stabilator different from an elevator
What is the stabilator's entire control surface moves?
Equipment that is inoperative but not required for safe flight can either be completely removed from the aircraft or...
What is placarded inoperative?
The term for not using the rudder when turning.
What is an uncoordinated turn?
The 1956 midair collision of two passenger planes over the Grand Canyon prompted the implementation of this system
What is the Air Traffic Control system?
The hypoxia resulting from the blood's inability to carry oxygen
What is hypemic hypoxia?
The location of the static port on an aircraft with a pitot/static mast
What is the backside of the pitot/static mast?
The valid time for federal aircraft registration in the US
What is 7 years?
This will disrupt the smooth flow of air over the wing, adversely affecting its lifting capacity.
What is frost?