RIPA Jeopardy Game 3 - IFR

Airspace

100

What is generally the maximum altitude for Class B airspace?

What is 10,000 Feet MSL

200

What are the normal lateral limits for Class D airspace?

What is 4NM

300

Unless otherwise specified on the chart, the minimum en route altitude along a jet route is

What is 18,000 Feet MSL

400

What is the floor of Class E airspace when designated in conjunction with an airport which has an approved IAP?

Where is 700 Feet AGL

500

MOAs are established to

What is separate certain military activities from IFR traffic. 

Regulations

100

What are the fuel requirements for operating under IFR

What is, enough fuel to arrive at the original airport, to the furthest alternate, plus 45 minutes.

200

When do you need an alternate?

What is the 1,2,3 rule:

• 1 hour: The conditions must be met for at least one hour before and one hour after the estimated time of arrival (ETA) 
• 2,000 feet: The ceiling must be at least 2,000 feet above the airport elevation 
• 3 statute miles: The visibility must be at least 3 statute miles

300

What are the components of an ILS

What is a localizer, glide slope, and marker beacons (approach lights)

400

What is the required weather at an alternate for it to be filed as an alternate?

What is, 

Non-precision, 800ft ceiling, and 2sm

Precision, 600ft ceiling, and 2sm

500

When can you go below minimums on an approach? 

What is,

• You must have the visibility required by the approach procedure
• You must be able to land using normal maneuvers
• You must be able to identify the runway environment; 
• The runway threshold
• The threshold lights
• The runway end identifier lights
• The visual approach slope indicator
• The touchdown zone or touchdown zone markings
• The touchdown zone lights
• The runway or runway markings
• The runway lights

Weather

100

The primary cause of all changes in the Earth's weather is

What is the variation of solar energy received by the Earth's regions. 

200

Clouds, fog, or dew will always form

When water vapor condenses

300

The presence of ice pellets at the surface is evidence that

_{There is freezing rain at a higher altitude.} 

400

Maximum downdrafts in a microburst encounter may be as strong as

What is 6,000 feet per minute. 

500

The most hazardous aspect of structural icing is that

What is aerodynamic degradation including loss of lift.

Navigation

100

Which data must be recorded in the aircraft log or other appropriate log by a pilot making a VOR operational check for IFR operations?

What is Place of operational check, amount of bearing error, date of check, and signature. 

200

Full scale deflection of a CDI occurs when the course deviation bar or needle

What is deflects from the center of the scale to either far side of the scale. 

300

What angular deviation from a VOR course centerline is represented by a 1/2 scale deflection of the CDI?

What is 5 degrees

400

How should the pilot make a VOR receiver check when the aircraft is located on the designated checkpoint on the airport surface?

What is, Setting the OBS on the designated radial. The CDI must center within plus or minus 4° of that radial with a FROM indication. 

500

A VOR receiver with normal five-dot course sensitivity shows a three-dot deflection at 30 NM from the station. The aircraft would be displaced approximately how far from the course centerline?

What is 3NM

Systems

100

What are the three gyroscopic instruments?

What isAttitude indicator

Heading indicator

Slip/Skid and turn indicator

200

What are the three Pitot–static instruments

What are,

Airspeed indicator

Altimeter

Vertical speed indicator

300

What should be the indication on the magnetic compass as you roll into a standard rate turn to the right from a northerly heading in the Northern Hemisphere?

What is the compass will initially indicate a turn to the left. 

400

The primary flight display (PFD) receives attitude and heading data from the

What is AHRS 

500

If both the ram air input and drain hole of the pitot system are blocked, what airspeed indication can be expected?

What is increase of indicated airspeed during a climb.