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What info (basically) do you get from Part 43? Part 61? Part 91?

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  • [ ] Part 43: Maintenance
    • [ ] Part 61: Certification of Airmen
    • [ ] Part 91: General Operations / Flight Rules
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What documents are required to be onboard the aircraft?

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  • [ ] Airworthiness Certificate
    • [ ] Registration Certificate
    • [ ] Radio Station License
    • [ ] Operators handbook - POH
    • [ ] Weight and Balance
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Who is responsible for making sure that - the aircraft is airworthy? - safe to fly?

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  • [ ] The owner of the aircraft

- [ ] The Pilot in command

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What minimum equipment is required in your airplane and where is it found in the FAR? (91.213)

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  • [ ] Anti-collision lights
    • [ ] Tachometer
    • [ ] Oil pressure Gauge
    • [ ] Manifold pressure gauge
    • [ ] Altimeter
    • [ ] Temperature gauge - liquid cooled engines
    • [ ] Oil temperature gauge - air cooled engine
    • [ ] Flotation device - distance longer from shore than power off glide
    • [ ] Fuel gauge - each tank
    • [ ] Landing gear indicator
    • [ ] Airspeed Indicator
    • [ ] Magnetic Heading Indicator
    • [ ] ELT - Emergency Locator Transmitter
    • [ ] Safety Belts
    • [ ] Fuses - full set / 3 of each in reach
    • [ ] Landing light - if for hire
    • [ ] Anti-collision lights
    • [ ] Position Lights
    • [ ] Source of electrical energy
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What inspections are required to be performed on your aircraft and when are they due?

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  • [ ] Annual Inspection - 12 calendar months
    • [ ] AD’s
    • [ ] VOR inspection - 30 days (IFR)
    • [ ] 100hr inspection - 100hrs
    • [ ] Altimeter, altitude reporting equipment, static pressure systems tested - 24 months
    • [ ] Transponder - 24 months
    • [ ] Emergency Locator Transmitter - 12 months
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Are an “annual” and a “100 hour” inspection the same? Can an annual be counted as a 100 hour? What about vice versa? Explain. A&P or IA?

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  • [ ] No. Yes. No. Differences is in the tech that preforms the work. Annual inspection must be preformed by a A&P that has an IA - “Inspection Authorization”.
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Which of these inspections has a 10-hour tach-time window to take the aircraft for service? What are the restrictions regarding this “window”?

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  • [ ] 100 hr inspection. Can only be used to get the plane to a place to complete the inspection.
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What are ADs? How do we comply with them? 2 types.

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  • [ ] A medium by with the FAA notifies aircraft owners of unsafe conditions that may exist because of design defects, maintenance or other causes and lets them know the conditions that they can continue to operate under.
    • [ ] Emergency nature
    • [ ] Less urgent nature - within a specific amount of time
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Can you fly with inoperative equipment in your aircraft? How, when, where, and in what capacity?

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  • [ ] If its on the MEL (minimum equipment list) no. However, just because you legally can, does not mean you should fly if its not safe and can compromise safety.
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How often must the ELT battery be changed?

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  • [ ] Once the life of the battery is at 50%

- [ ] When the transmitter has been in use for more than 1 cumulative hour

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What is FSDO?

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  • [ ] Flight Standards District Office
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What type of documentation must be on your person when you are PIC?

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  • [ ] Pilot Certification
    • [ ] Photo ID
    • [ ] Medical Certificate
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How long is a 3rd Class medical good for?

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  • [ ] Under 40 - 5 years

- [ ] Over 40 - 2 years

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Does a pilot certificate ever expire? Explain…

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  • [ ] No, but you can be out of currency.
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What constitutes a complex airplane? Can you fly one? What would you have to do in order to be able to do so?

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  • [ ] Airplane with Constant speed propeller, flaps, and retractable landing gear
    • [ ] No
    • [ ] Get training and endorsement for it
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What is ADM? Give an example

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  • [ ] Aeronautical Decision-Making
    1. Identifying personal attitudes hazardous to safe flight
    2. Learning behavior modification techniques
    3. Learning how to recognize and cope with stress
    4. Developing risk assessment skills
    5. Using all resources
    6. Evaluating the effectiveness of one’s ADM skills
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What type of engine is in your airplane?

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  • [ ] Normally aspirated, direct drive, air cooled, horizontally opposed, carbourator equipped, 4 cylinder engine
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Explain the fuel system on your airplane

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  • [ ] Gravity Fed Syestem
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Explain the electrical system in your aircraft

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  • [ ] 14V DC system powered by a 60 amp 12V alternator; 25 amp-hour battery
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If your alternator quits working and your battery goes dead, will your engine keep running? Why or why not?

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  • [ ] Yes, the engine runs independently of the battery and alternator.
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What would you do if your oil pressure is low during flight?

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  • [ ] Look for the nearest airport to land at
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What are the different types of drag? Explain

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  • [ ] Parasite Drag

- [ ] Induced Drag

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Tell about the different types of turning tendencies that affect our airplane.

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  • [ ] P-Factor (Asymmetric Propeller Loading) The descending propeller blade is taking a bigger bite of air than the ascending propeller blade
  • [ ] Torque - For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
  • [ ] Gyroscopic Precession - a force applied is felt 90 degrees ahead of the rotation
  • [ ] Spirling slipstream - the aircrafts slipstream impacts the left side of the tail section
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What services can you get from an FSS?

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  • [ ] pilot briefings, weather observations, pilot reports, flight plan processing, search and rescueservices, assistance to lost aircraft and aircraft in emergencies.
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What are various types of weather briefings? What does each contain and when should you request each one?

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  • [ ] StandardBriefing - flight planning - adverse conditions, VFR flight not recommended, Synopsis, current conditions, Enroute Forecast, Destination Forecast, winds aloft, NOTAMS, ATC delay
  • [ ] AbbreviatedBriefing -
  • [ ] OutlookBriefing - forecast data - 6+ hours from trip
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What is LLWAS?

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  • [ ] Low-level windshear alert system
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What is Special VFR? Explain

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  • [ ] “ASpecial VFRClearance is an ATC authorization for aVFRaircraft to operate in weather that is less than the basicVFR minima. BasicVFR minimaare 1,000-foot ceiling and 3 miles visibility. If the reported weather is less, a pilot can request aSpecial VFRClearance.
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What constitutes VFR? MVFR? IFR? Can you fly when IFR exist? MVFR?

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  • [ ] VFR -VFR:Ceiling greater than 3000 feet and visibility greater than 5 miles (includes sky clear).
  • [ ] Marginal VFR (MVFR):Ceilings 1,000 to 3,000 feet and/or visibility is 3-5 miles inclusive.
  • [ ] Instrument Flight Rules (IFR):Ceilings 500 to less than 1,000 feetand/orvisibility 1 to less than 3 miles.
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What is an AIRMET? Different types of AIRMETS? SIGMETS? CONVECTIVE SIGMETS?

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  • [ ] AIRMET, or Airmen’s Meteorological Information, is a concise description of weather phenomena that are occurring or may occur along an air route that may affect aircraft safety.
  • [ ] Sierra - Visibility
  • [ ] Tango - turbulence
  • [ ] Zulu - Icing conditions
  • [ ] Convective - embedded thunderstorms, a line of thunderstorms,severe surface weather including surface winds greater than or equal to 50 knots etc.
  • [ ] Non-Convective
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What are METARS? How long is it valid for?

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  • [ ] Weather Reporting Information - Valid for 60 min
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What is a TAF? How long is it valid for?

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  • [ ] Terminal Area Forecast - Updated 4 times a day. Good for 24-30 hours
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What are the characteristics of a High/Low Pressure System?

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  • [ ] High- outward, downward, clockwise

- [ ] Low-inward upward, counter clockwise

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What is Windshear?

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  • [ ] Significant Sudden change in velocity or direction of wind
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What are NOTAMS? What are the different types? Give examples of what you might find under each one.

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  • [ ] otices to airmen -
  • [ ] (D) NOTAMs - wide dissemination via telecommunication - enroute nav aids, civil public use airports
  • [ ] FDC NOTAMs - changes to IFR charts, procedures, airspace usage
  • [ ] PONTER NOTAMs - issued by FSS to highlight another NOTAM
  • [ ] SAA NOTAMs - special activity airspace active outside published scheduled times
  • [ ] MILITARY NOTAMs - US military
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What are TFRs? How can you get info on them? Are they on the sectionals? How large is a Presidential TFR?

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  • [ ] Temporary Flight Restriction
  • [ ] Find them via NOTAMs
  • [ ] Yes they’re on the sectional on Foreflight
  • [ ] Typically 30 Miles
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What is a RCO?

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  • [ ] Remote communications outlets (RCO) are remote aviation band radio transceivers, established to extend the communication capabilities of Flight Information Centres (FIC) and flight service stations (FSS).Pilotscan findRCOfrequencies in charts or publications such as the Chart Supplement
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What is a TRSA?

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  • [ ] Terminal radar service area - is a delimited airspace where radar and air traffic control services are made available to pilots flying under instrument flight rules or visual flight rules, to maintain aircraft separation. TRSAs most often surround busy U.S. airports.
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What is a Mode C Veil?

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  • [ ] Airspace that surrounds Class B airspace
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What is Hypoxia? What are the symptoms of hypoxia?

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An absence of enough oxygen in the tissues to sustain bodily functions.
Changes in skin color - blue, shortness of breath, confusion, sweating, etc.

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What are the symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning?

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  • [ ] Dizziness, drowsiness, headache, nausea, etc.
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What are the altitudes that O2 is required?

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  • [ ] 12500 ft - for more than 30 min - pilots must use
  • [ ] 14000 ft - pilots/crew must use at all times
  • [ ] 15000 ft - passengers must have the option to use
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What does LAHSO stand for? What are the pilot’s responsibilities (options) regarding them?

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  • [ ] Land and Hold Short Operation - they must make sure they are able to comply or tell ATC they cannot accept the clearance
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What does a displaced threshold look like? What operations are allowed?

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  • [ ] Long arrows - taxi, landing rollout, takeoff - NOT for landing
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What does the hold short line look like?

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  • [ ] 2 dashed yellow lines and 2 solid yellow lines
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Explain the phrase “line up & wait” (from a tower).

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  • [ ] Position yourself on the runway ready to take off but dont take off yet until further clearance
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What is wake turbulence? What are the tendencies of wingtip vortices?

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  • [ ] Wake turbulence is a disturbance in the atmosphere that forms behind an aircraft as it passes through the air
  • [ ] outward, upward andaroundthewing tips
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What is relative wind?

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  • [ ] the direction of movement of the atmosphere relative to an aircraft or an airfoil
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What are Advisory Circulars?

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  • [ ] A type of publication offered by the Federal Aviation Administration to provide guidance for compliance with airworthiness regulations, pilot certification, operational standards, training standards, and any other rules within the 14 CFR Aeronautics and Space Title.
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What instruments operate off the vacuum pump?

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  • [ ] Heading Indicator(HI) andAttitude Indicator
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What instruments contain gyroscopes?

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  • [ ] Attitude Indicator, DirectionalGyroandTurn and Bank Indicator
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What is magnetic Variation?

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  • [ ] Difference between true north and magnetic north
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What is the PAVE Checklist?

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  • [ ] the pilot divides the risks of flight intofourcategories: Pilot- in-command (PIC), Aircraft, enVironment, and External pressures (PAVE) which form part of a pilot’s decision- making process.
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What is CFIT?

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  • [ ] A controlled flight into terrain is an accident in which an airworthy aircraft, under pilot control, is unintentionally flown into the ground, a mountain, a body of water or an obstacle. In a typical CFIT scenario, the crew is unaware of the impending disaster until it is too late
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What is the IMSAFE checklist?

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  • [ ] The IMSAFEchecklistis a personal health assessment used to ensure the pilot is healthy before each flight. The letters stand for; Illness, Medication, Stress, Alcohol, Fatigue, Emotions. By reviewing these elements of thechecklist, the pilot can conclude whether he/she is personally fit to fly.
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What is SRM?

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  • [ ] Single-pilot resource management is defined as the art and science of managing all the resources available to a single-pilot to ensure that the successful outcome of the flight is never in doubt.
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What are the stages of a thunderstorm? What is the worst stage?

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  • [ ] Cumulus, Mature, and Dissipating.

- [ ] Mature Stage is most dangerous

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What’s worse, high density altitude or low density altitude? How does density altitude affect aircraft performance?

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  • [ ] High density altitude

- [ ] Longer takeoff and landing roll, slower climb, worse performance

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When is P-factor most notable?

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  • [ ] high angles of attack and high power, for example during take-off or in slow flight.
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How is lift created?

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  • [ ] Bernoulli’s principle -Bernoulli’s Principlestates that faster moving air has low air pressure and slower moving air has high air pressure. (It says that as speed of the fluid increases, pressure decreases. … A higher pressure pushes (accelerates) fluid toward lower pressure.)
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How can ground effect affect your takeoff?

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  • [ ] It lets you take off at an airspeed slower than you should and you can stall when you get out of ground effect

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