Basic Maneuvers Flashcards
What is the safety related advantage of keeping your eyes primarily focused outside the cockpit?
Allows the pilot to avoid obstacles and other aircraft.
During straight and level flight, what is the primary visual reference used for maintaining altitude and heading?
The natural horizon.
True/False. To maintain straight and level flight, you normally need to make a continuous series of small adjustments in pitch and bank.
False. You can use the trim tab in order to assist in maintaining a constant pitch attitude.
What is the primary reason for making trim adjustments?
A. To correct heading
B. To change pitch attitude.
C. To relieve control pressure.
C. To relieve control pressures
How can you determine the magnitude of a deviation from your desired heading and altitude?
By cross checking your flight instruments. Heading and altitude indicators.
Which type of climb speed results in the greatest gain in altitude in the shortest distance?
Best angle-of-climb speed, Vx
Which type of climb speed provides the most gain in altitude in the least amount of time?
Best rate-of-climb speed, Vy.
True/False. As the pitch attitude is increased and the airspeed decreases, left-turning tendencies become less pronounced.
False. They become more pronounced.
Would you expect a need for a decrease or increase of right rudder pressure as the aircraft accelerates during level off?
Decrease and possible use of left rudder.
What percentage of your vertical speed is normally used to determine the lead for level off?
10% of f.p.m.
True/False. You can control your rate of descent with pitch attitude.
True. Pitch should also be used in conjunction with decreasing the power.
Will a cruise descent result in a higher or lower ground speed than a typical descent used to approach a landing?
Higher ground speed. You will be descending slower across a longer distance.
During a 500 f.p.m. descent, you have been instructed to level off at 4,000 MSL. What altitude should you begin your level off?
Same as a climb. 10%.
True/False. You can decrease your descent rate by lowering the flaps.
False. Using flaps increase your descent rate while not increasing your airspeed.
Would a power increase during a constant airspeed, power-on descent require you to raise or lower the nose to maintain airspeed?
Increase the nose attitude. Decrease attitude as you decrease power.
Turns are divided into three classes or types. What are the classes of turns and how many degrees of bank are associated with each?
Shallow turn - a turn of less than approximately 20 degrees of bank.
Medium turn - a turn between approximately 20 degrees and 45 degrees of bank.
Steep turn - a turn of approximately 45 degrees of bank or more.
True/False. During a level turn, you maintain the same amount of aileron deflection through out the turn.
True
What determines how far an airplane rolls?
The ailerons.
You are in a climbing turn to the right, using a 30 degrees angle of bank, and have been directed to rollout on heading of 090 degrees. On what heading should you begin your rollout?
15 degrees. Leading your roll out heading by one half your bank angle is a good rule of thumb for initial training.
How can you compensate for the increased rate of descent you experience in a descending turn, as opposed to a straight descent?
Using power. Higher rate of descent = lower power.
Lower rate of descent = higher power.
