Fuel Systems
The proper position that the pilot should set for the fuel selector when the left tank has 26 pounds of fuel and the right tank has 20 pounds of fuel?
What is in the left position?
The piece of equipment that generates electricity for use inflight.
What is the alternator?
The name of the landing gear system which employs a nose wheel.
What is a tricycle gear system?
The first step that a pilot should take when experiencing explosive decompression.
What is initiate a rapid descent?
The impact on stall speed when an aircraft experiences significant icing.
What is an increase in stall speed?
The step in the process of fueling an airplane which prevents the discharge of static electricity, which could cause an explosion.
What is grounding the aircraft?
The first step in addressing an electrical fire in flight that a pilot should take when the fire is visible and within reach.
What is put the fire out, if possible?
The part of a hydraulic system that opens to relieve system pressure when the fluid pressure exceeds a set value. It routes fluid back to the reservoir.
What is the relief valve?
A measure of the difference in pressure between cabin pressure and the pressure outside of the aircraft.
What is differential pressure?
Two of the parts/components on an aircraft that have devices to protect them from the hazards of ice formation.
What are any two of the following: Wing leading edge, pitot tube, windshield, engine air intake or propeller
One of the two reasons why a pilot drains a small amount of fuel from each sump before each flight.
What is to check the color (grade) of the fuel or to look for contaminated fuel?
One of the two indicators (instruments) that a pilot uses monitor that status of the electrical systems on the aircraft.
What are the Ammeter or the Load meter?
This part of a hydraulic system permits pressurized hydraulic fluid to be routed to either side of a hydraulic actuator (a moveable hydraulic piston.)
What is a hydraulic selector valve?
At maximum differential pressure, the impact on cabin altitude when the aircraft climbs.
What is the cabin altitude increases?
The type of precipitations that is most likely to lead to the greatest rate of ice accumulation in flight.
What is freezing rain?
The name of the tube commonly found on aerobatic aircraft to ensure fuel flow to the engine when flying inverted.
What is a flop tube?
The part of an aircraft's electrical system whose purpose is to protect electrical components from power spikes.
What is the alternator control unit?
When there is an increase in the pressure at any point in a confined fluid, there is an increase in pressure at every other point in the container.
What is Pascal's Law?
The type of oxygen delivery method which is most effective at extremely high altitudes.
What is pressure demand?
The wing deicing system in which antifreeze fluid is pumped out of the leading edge through tiny holes.
What is a weeping wing?
The type of aviation fuel that is kerosene based, is clear or straw colored, and is delivered through a nozzle that is not round.
What is jet fuel?
The general term for the component of an electrical circuit that is responsible for doing work.
What is the load (or the item that is using the electricity for a specific purpose.)
The term applied when a machine permits a person to multiply their applied force to produce a larger force on an object.
What is Mechanical Advantage?
The cabin altitude at which, after 30 minutes of flight time at night, a pilot is required to use supplemental oxygen.
What is 12,500 feet?
The type of clouds that will most commonly produce rime ice.
What are stratus clouds?