(K)Element 3-68 Distance Measuring Equipment

Question 1

What is the frequency range of the Distance Measuring Equipment(DME) used to indicate an aircrafts slant range distance to a selected ground based navigation system?

Answer 1

962 mhz to 1213 mhzT

Question 2

The DME measures the distance from the aircraft to the DME ground station. This is referred to as

Answer 2

The slant range

Question 3

The DME ground station has a built in relay between reception of an interrogation and transmission of the reply to allow:

Answer 3

operation at close range

Question 4

What is the main underlying operating principle of an aircrafts DME?

Answer 4

a measureable amount of time is required to send and receive a radio signal through the Earths Atmosphere

Question 5

What radio navigation aid determines the distance from an aircraft to a selected VORTAC station by measuring the length of time the radio signal takes to travel to and from the station?

Answer 5

Distance Measuring Equipment

Question 6

The majority of airborne DME systems automatically tune their transmitter and receiver frequencies to the paired VOR/LOC channel

Answer 6

he paired VOR/LOC channel