exam anglais Flashcards

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Vocabulary
– Airport (1) and (2) . (SEE IMAGE)

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Acronym
or Term

Meaning (Fr?)

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Declared
Distances : Published, official distances for performance planning. Strict definitions.
« distances déclarées »

Threshold: Beginning of runway. “piano keys” « seuil de piste »

Displaced
Threshold: Official beginning of landing distance. May land prior to this if done
carefully. « seuil décalé »

Clearway:Beyond end of runway, no obstacles « Prolongement dégagé »

Stopway:End of runway, emergency stopping use only « Prolongement d’arrêt »

ASDA: Accelerate/Stop Distance Available; includes stopway

LDA: Landing Distance Available; from displaced threshold to runway end

TORA:Take-Off Run Available; from threshold (not displaced) to runway end

TODA:Take-Off Distance Available (includes stopway and clearway)

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Traffic Pattern (Circuit) see image

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CARs, Standards
avigation Charts:

  • Advisory Circulars
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  • CARs, Standards: Rarely change
  • Navigation Charts: as required
  • CAP, CFS, etc Renewal/Reissue Cycle?
  • Advisory Circulars
    – Issued by TC to help understand how to comply
    with current regulations and standards
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  • Changes between 56-day cycles?
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Changes between 56-day cycles?
* Short duration: NOTAM
* Longer duration, or graphical explanations
needed:
– AIP Supplements and
– Aeronautical Information Circulars

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AICs

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  • Example of AIC
  • Published in advance
  • Detailed information
  • Not yet in publications
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NOTAMs

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  • Short-notice changes
  • Canada now uses ICAO format
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Template for copying (e.g.) atis

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ATIS: Place Letter
Wind
Altimeter
Sky
Temp/DP
RW
Taxi
Notes

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  • What general term can be used to
    describe ALL flying machines?
  • Heavier than air machines?
  • Lighter than air machines?
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  • What general term can be used to
    describe ALL flying machines?
    – Aircraft
  • Heavier than air machines?
    – Aerodyne
  • Lighter than air machines?
    – Aerostat
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Lighter than air (aerostats)

Sorts of aerostats: self-propelled?

Lighter than air, not guided?

A ‘brand name’ used for dirigeables?

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  • Sorts of aerostats: self-propelled?
    – Dirigeables
  • Lighter than air, not guided?
    – Balloons
  • A ‘brand name’ used for dirigeables?
    – Zeppelin
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Aircraft Categories
Fixed-wing machines?
Categories of aircraft (CARs):
Ultra-légers?
Autogire?
Last, but not least: Helicopter

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  • Fixed-wing machines?
    – Aeroplane, or Airplane (British vs US)
  • Categories of aircraft (CARs):
    – Fixed-wing machines = Aeroplanes
  • Ultra-légers?
    – Ultralight
  • Autogire?
    – Autogyro
  • Last, but not least: Helicopter
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Aircraft Classes

  • By number of engines
  • Bush vs other:
  • Types?
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  • By number of engines:
    – Single engine(d)
    – Multi engine(d)
  • Bush vs other:
    – Land planes
    – Float planes
  • Types?
    – Specific type, such as Beech C-23
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Classes and Types of Aircraft (summary)

  • Aircraft
  • Categories:
  • Classes:
  • Type
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  • Aircraft: all flying machines
  • Categories:
    – Aeroplane (airplane), ultralight, autogyro,
    helicopter
  • Classes:
    – Single engine, multi engine
    – Landplane, Floatplane
  • Type: e.g. Cessna 172, Airbus 319
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Locations on aircraft (see image)

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bush plane partes and helicopter parts (see images)

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Date Format Standards

  • Canada, English:
  • USA:
  • Rest of world…
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  • Canada, English:
    – Same as Quebec (French)
    – DD/MM/YYYY
  • USA:
    – MM/DD/YYYY
    – So-called ‘Pi Day’ is not really (3/14)
  • Rest of world…
    – Confused. Mostly use Canadian format
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Format confusion, cause and solution

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  • Problem: Some Canadians use
    American format!
    – Windows operating system
    – Documentation from USA
  • Many international English-speakers
    influenced by American format
  • Good habits:
    – Use name of month
    – Use four digits for year
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Time Expression: Civil, English country

  • How would you express it – accurately?
  • Approximately?

3:08:43 pm

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How would you express it – accurately?
– Three-oh-eight, and 43 seconds in the
afternoon
* Approximately?
– Three-oh-nine pm
– Nine minutes after three in the afternoon

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Time Expression: Aviation, Military

03:08:48

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  • Military:
    – Fifteen-oh-eight and forty-three seconds
  • Aviation:
    – One-five-zero-eight zulu,
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Variations 15h20
aviation
military
civil

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  • Aviation:
    – Fifteen-twenty, or one-five-two-zero
  • Military:
    – Fifteen-twenty hours
  • Civil:
    – Three twenty
    – Twenty minutes after three
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Civil: variations (1)
* Times ‘on the hour’?
* Times from :01 to :29 minutes after hour
* Half hour?

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  • Times ‘on the hour’?
    – O’clock
  • Times from :01 to :29 minutes after hour
    – 7:03?
    – 7:15?
  • Never ‘seven and a quarter’
  • Could be ‘Quarter after seven’
  • Half hour?
    – 7:30 (seven-thirty)
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Civil: variations (2)
* Times after half hour
* 3:35
* 7:45
* 7:50

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  • Times after half hour
  • 3:35
    – Three-thirty-five
    – Twenty five minutes to four
  • 7:45
    – Seven-forty-five
    – Quarter to eight
  • 7:50
    – Seven-fifty, or Ten minutes to eight
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The Earth’s Coordinates

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  • Meridians, Parallels
  • North Pole
  • Magnetic Pole
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Shape of the Earth & Coordinate system

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  • What do we call the shape?
  • Geoid
  • Oblate Spheroid
  • Equator
  • Prime Meridian
  • Tropic of Cancer
  • Tropic of Capricorn
  • Arctic & Antarctic Circles
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Global Routes
* Grand cercle? * Great Circle * Loxodromie? * Rhumb Line
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* The coloured areas are called?
* Time Zones * Standard vs Daylight Savings Time (EST, EDT)
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Map Projections * Used in aviation :
– Cylindrical – Conical – UTM? * Universal Transverse Mercator
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Distances
* One minute of Latitude = ? * 1 nautical mile (nm) * 1/10,000th arc Equator to North Pole? * 1 Kilometre (km) * Unit of measure in USA? * Statute Mile (sm) 66 nm ≈ 76 sm ≈ 122 km
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Speeds
* IAS: Indicated Airspeed: the speed on the ASI (airspeed indicator) * CAS: Calibrated Airspeed: IAS corrected for position errors * EAS: Equivalent Airspeed: CAS corrected for compressibility error * TAS: True Airspeed: EAS corrected for density error * True Airspeed is the actual speed of the aircraft in the air; it is used for navigation computations
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Magnetic vs True North
Variation EAST – magnetic LEAST ; Variation WEST – magnetic BEST * Magnetic Variation * Common abbreviations: – Var; MVar; MagVar * "Rate of Change" * Compass vs Magnetic? – Magnetic Deviation – FOR, STEER
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Lines of Equal Variation
* Isogonal lines * Line of zero Variation? * Agonic Line
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The Wind Triangle
* Three vectors: * Air Vector: Heading, True Airspeed * Wind Vector: Wind Direction, Speed * Ground Vector: Track, Ground Speed * Drift, Drift Angle, * Related terms: – Track made good, actual track – Magnetic Heading, True Heading – Heading Correction, Drift Correction
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Terminology: ( – Track: – Track made good: – Track error – Opening angle: – Closing angle:
* Terminology: (Track errors and corrections) – Track: * The planned path to be followed over the ground – Track made good (or actual track): * The actual path followed over the ground – Track error: * The angle between planned track and actual track, measured in degrees * Always expressed in degrees left or right of track – Opening angle: * The track error as measured from the beginning of the leg – Closing angle: * The angle between the present position and the planned track, measured from the end of the leg
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Track Corrections
* Opening & Closing angles * Double Track correction * Visual correction
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Navigation à l’estime ?
* Dead Reckoning
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VOCABULARY ****
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